Taming My Arrogant Husband novel Chapter 86

Sophia's POV:

My heart is pounding inside my rib cage as I walk towards the entrance of Bologna's public hospital. I was in a supermarket near our subdivision when I received a call from the nurse's station that one of their patients wanted to see me. 

At first, I was hesitant, but after knowing that he also had a stroke and suffered from a temporary coma, I decided to pay him a visit. Maybe this is now the right time to face him after his son was sentenced to life imprisonment for several cases that the government of Bologna given to him, including the case I filed against him. 

"Sophia Del Mundo?" The nurse in the reception desk repeated my name. 

"Sì, ecco la mia carta d'identità." (Yes, here's my identity card)

"Per favore Seguimi." (Please follow me)

"Grazie." (Thank you)

I gave her back the smile which she didn't hesitate to give me. 

It's been seven years to be exact since that incident happened and after seven years I will be able to see the father of the man who gave me terrifying nightmares and unforgettable past. 

"Ecco la sua stanza." (Here is his room". 

"Grazie." (Thank you)

"Prego, basta premere il buzzer se hai bisogno di qualcosa da chiedere sulla sua conditioner." (You're welcome, just press the buzzer if you need something to ask about his condition)

I nodded at her before she walked back to her post. And I was left alone standing at the door of the second to the last person I wanted to see again in my life. Nicholas De Lucca. 

I didn't even bother to knock, I just turned the knob and pushed the door to open. 

My breath stuck in my throat the moment I saw him lying on the hospital bed. He looked terrible than my father when he was still in the hospital. Nicholas De Lucca, the worst person, the most selfish and cunning man I have ever known when I was young. I couldn't see him then as a person, until now I couldn't find pity inside my heart, even though he's now lying on bed, almost lifeless, paler than my father when he's still alive. 

If I am just like him or if I didn't know that I am a human being, for sure I have already taken his pillow and covered his face until he lost of breath, or maybe I have already turned off the ventilating machine that supplies oxygen to his weak and sinful body, and I laugh as I watch him ask for help until he finally reaches his end. 

But no... 

I still have a heart. I am still a human. 

"B-Belle?"

I took a deep breath when he finally noticed me and called my name. 

"Nicholas De Lucca." I said in an emotionless voice. 

He tried to move but because of the tube that connects to his mouth, he gave up and just turned his head to look at me. 

"H-How are you B-Belle?"

I brushed my hair up and sneered at him. 

"You really had the audacity to ask me that stupid question, Nicholas De Lucca? After what you and your son have done to me, after seven years of your freedom and my misery, and after my father died, what do you think? Can you answer your own question for me?"

"W-What d-do you mean your father is dead?"