Chapter 85 - A kiss.

“Sir Antonio is dead?” Rex repeated the same words Bella had uttered a few seconds ago.

“When did this happen? I mean, what killed him?” He felt so lost as a look of terror washed up his face, summed up with the sadness lacing behind his voice.

It wasn't as if he didn't hear what she had told him earlier, but the news was just too shocking for anyone in his place.

Bella only sighed and lowered her head, having an answer to his questions but just a little courage to reply to him.

She was afraid she might break down in his presence, then who would console who? He already looked so sad himself, so she didn't want to add to his sorrows. But, could she help it?

Sir Antonio was like the father she and her brother never had, and she had never imagined to also lose him to the painful hands of death this soonest.

“Diana and his doctor said he was in stage four of lung cancer.” Bella had a bitter smile on her face, and she didn't realize it when a drop of tear rolled down her left chin. Then a