Chapter 173 Heart-Wrenching Deceit

• “You killed my mother!” Alessandro’s whole body trembled with fury as his shout echoed through the room like a clap of thunder, and Maria’s eyes widened. She instinctively closed them and turned her head away, unable to withstand the fierce, burning anger in Alessandro’s gaze.
• The letter fluttered in his hand, caught by a gust of wind, drawing his gaze back to it. Alessandro's eyes softened, turning from fury to a helpless, haunted look as he stared at his mother’s handwriting—the only piece of her he had left. "She wanted me to know," he began, his voice suddenly thick with emotion, "that she loved me and wanted me to be safe. So, she chose to disappear from my life, to protect me."
• His voice trembled with the weight of his words, and his eyes brimmed with pain and remorse. He had spent so many years misunderstanding, even hating, his mother. Now, the truth of her sacrifice tore at him, an unbearable revelation. "Because Maria threatened her," he snarled, his voice hardening with each word, "to leave Father and me alone and disappear from our lives if she wanted us to stay alive."