Would he let her go?

I sighed and dropped my legs on the floor, resting my elbows on my knees.

   My father never loved my mother after they got married, he just married her for an heir. Unfortunately for him, he fell in love with her later but kept it to himself by treating her terrible and always beating her. I hated him then, why would he hit her so much! That was what I thought until the council of high Mafias found out he loved her, and so he had to choose between her and himself; he chose the latter, of course. The worse part was making me watch as he killed her, so I