Mr. Patu had no idea that his own life and the lives of his family had been saved because he had completed his work so brilliantly.
He was discussing the matter with his wife.
"Tomorrow morning, take a few of the children and go find Anna. Stay with her. She'll arrange a place for you to live. From now on, you'll also need to ask her opinion about matters in your daily lives."
His wife looked at him, her hand gripping his tightly.
Although Mr. Patu had been extremely chauvinistic throughout all the years since they married and had rarely shown her any tenderness,
she could still feel the love he kept suppressed, as if she were the first person to learn that her future had already been properly arranged.
He had not demanded that she stay with him for some reason. Instead, he had entrusted her to Anna.
She had always felt that Mr. Patu simply did not know how—and could not—express the feelings in his heart.
After all, he was the Family Head of the Akiner Family. If he acted too... warm, enemies within the family and enemies outside it would follow the scent and come running to stab him.
He had to put on a tough, ruthless, and heartless front. Only then would those enemies rein themselves in and avoid exposing themselves to Mr. Patu.
But she knew that he was a good man.
That was obvious from the fact that he had had only one wife in his entire life and had never even kept a mistress. In the Upper Class, that was actually very difficult to achieve—the women involved in casual affairs did not count.
"I don't want to go anywhere." She was old and no longer looked as beautiful as she had when she