A Man in His Forties

port. He risked another look at it and was agai

ring wheel hard and

, his twin kids had t

ild of another man,

ient Department of MacPherson Hospital

e twins was solid evidence! She had cheated on h

he remembered, was on their wedding day

edding, and they had been alone during the honeymoon. So if she had

guy had almost boned the s

ufferable h

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l Melville, his 28-year-old wife, was a deputy dir

dical school at JD University. By chance, he met his senior s

ege. After graduation, I met Isabel, the prettiest girl in the college. I married her and have kids with h

ou lo

you lie

on our wedding day? Why did y

or four years. Four y

.

e car until he was startled by a string of ph

y after he put it through. The kids were two still in kinderg

ny tonight, and I must be there. I'll come

inted when he thought of

ivities in her company. She always claimed she needed to work overtime, or she said she was goi

out. Never worried that his wife would betray him, Albert was settled when

he got to the kindergarten a

of Isabel and her lover fooling around on it appeared in Albert's mind. The sofa, the carpet, t

Albert rushed into the bathroo

Take the

om behind him. It was his d

t o

t the next second, when it occurred to him that he was not the

ay. To his surprise,

n the floor and burst

ow, Dad! You don't c

ght of the innocent look on the girl's face, he felt his heart softened. This

ld is innocent...' Albert went over and picked up his daughter. W

I don't feel pain now. I'll

r father's reaction. She cried even

usted the green glasses that helped correct his vision and shook his head.

lder at him with watery eye

. I fell because I was not

the tears off

When are we goin

sked hea

cked the back of her head. After making sure that

, I'm hungry, too. I fell

ocent. How could

e, Albert washed his face an

fied and happy if he hadn't found out about the truth. He would have even taken out a camera and recorded

he watched them, t

her for the guy for three years. He had taken such good

bert washed them up, changed their clothes, d

ert felt drained. He w

wife, but her

with her lover ag

the sofa, off the carpet, onto the clea

nd name of a bottle o

ocking me that I'm

tupid donkey wh

bottle and poured a

e divorc

d his wife's betrayal was a fact. The paternity test had made it clear that he was not V

of breath at the realiz

o him for work by his father-in-law because the old man wanted a new one. The family had hundreds of thousan

ient Department only because his fa

orced, all he h

n liked his

lse do

Albert coul

r-nothing? Am I

have my med

y head, I can still come back to my hometown wi

want to go ba

f they find out that I'm such a failure, they'

rl. And I have twin kids. I got a place and a car in the city. And I secured a decent job in a big hospital. I am

City J four years ago. Even if I weren't doing as well as I am now,

in the past years. If I left just like that,

t swall

m time to time before it captured him again. Regardless o

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