Chapter 60

I know that if I took Marc to the court it would be unforgivable and yet I knew I would never face the alternative solution of seeing Tio only occasionally, perhaps never. I was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that the only way out of the difficulty was to disappear from Marc’s life for good. How I will accomplish what I was thinking was a big question. I sighed bitterly as I reflected that with a more reasonable man, it would have been sufficient to have discussed the facts and the lawyer would have put them to her.

But as the lawyer had summarized Marc was a very determined man and he would fight every step of the way whatever it cost him. I soon reached the big hospital building and climbed the steps with the main entrance. There were more visitors in the children’s ward when I reached it and I saw Marc was still sitting beside Tio’s bed, watching him intently as he lay sound asleep, blissfully unaware of the noise and clutter around him.

“Hey, Carmen!” Marc rose