A Man Caught His Wife Having an Affair with His ‘Golden’ Brother at Their Family’s Vacation Home — He Pretended Not to Know, but the Next Evening, They Showed Up at His Door, Shouting, ‘What the Hell Have You Done?!’

Molly’s shoes were still beside the front door.

I sat down on the bottom step.

For several minutes, I couldn’t bring myself to move them.

    My hands were shaking.

***

Three days later, Mom asked me to visit.

Dad was waiting at the kitchen table.

“We’re terribly sorry about Molly,” Mom said.

    “Thank you.”

“But Kai’s made a terrible mistake. We can’t let this tear the family apart.”

    “We’re terribly sorry about Molly.”

I looked at her.

    “What would you like me to do?”

“Perhaps talk to him. Hear him out.”

“Dad, do you remember my twenty-seventh birthday?”

    “Hear him out.”

He frowned.

“The year Kai got promoted?”

    “Yes.”

Mom nodded.

“We apologized for forgetting. We sent you a gift.”

“I brought a cake that night.”

    “We sent you a gift.”

She looked puzzled.

    “A cake?”