ISABELLA I saw it the moment the light left his eyes, the moment he stopped fighting, and death took him from me.“No,” I whispered, my voice shaking. I shook him. Once. Twice. He didn't move. His hand remained limp on his side. “Richard, please, no.”I placed a finger under his nose, but I felt nothing. I leaned down and placed my ear on his chest, but I heard nothing. Not even the faintest beat. I checked his pulse, but felt nothing.“You can't leave like that,” I said, still shaking him. “You can’t! You said you loved me! You bastard, you said you loved me! So how can you leave like that? How can you be dead?”I kept shaking him as I sobbed, kept pleading, threatening, yelling at him to open his eyes, but… nothing happened. This was it? He was dead? An hour ago, he was standing behind me. He was okay, and now… now he was just… dead? No, I refuse to accept that. We needed to take him to the hospital.I looked up and saw everybody staring at me: Alexander, Leonardo, Sophia, the who
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