Chapter 4

“No matter what I said, he didn’t believe me. He chose to perform a simple meningitis operation on his lover‘ s daughter instead of saving our daughter.”

Hearing this, Lydia slapped Aiden. “You bastard, you killed your daughter. Poor Kathy, her wonderful life cut short…”

“I didn’t believe Clare, I thought she was lying,” Aiden admitted.

“It’s not that you didn’t think about it, you didn‘ t care at all, I roared.

“No matter how much I begged, even fainting from crying, you ignored me. You believed Maria‘ s lies meant to divide us”

“For 20 years, I’ve done everything for our family,supervised our daughter‘ s studies, tolerated your affair with Maria, all to keep peace for our daughter’s sake. But you didn’t see my efforts, and now she’s dead because of you.”

I cried, my heart breaking.

“Clare, I’m sorry.”

“Sorry? Can my daughter come back to life?” I asked.

Aiden wept, “Daughter, Daddy is so sorry. Please, God, bring her back.”

“My daughter’s spirit will never forgive you.

Aiden slapped himself, “Daughter, Dad was wrong, come back.”

Maria’s daughter, Molly, approached. “Godfather, don‘ t be sad. My mom says now you can divorce and marry her. You can leave everything to me in your will. I’ll care for you as my father.‘

Aiden, in shock, pushed Molly to the ground.

“You, you go to hell.”

Distracted by his surgery for Maria‘ s daughter, Aiden missed his last chance to save our daughter.

Maria rushed to Molly’s side.

“Who are they?” Lydia asked.

People watched them angrily.

“They‘ re Aiden‘ s lover and her daughter. He performed surgery on his lover‘ s daughter instead of saving his own, I said through gritted teeth.

“Hit them!”

Friends and relatives couldn’t bear it anymore and started punching and kicking Maria and her daughter.

“Aiden, save us”… Maria screamed.

But Aiden, holding the urn, was lost in his grief, as if his soul had been ripped from his body.