Carol arranged for her sister to take the children out to dinner. Then she asked Daniel and Margaret to meet her at the house at six.
She set the letter in front of Daniel. He recognized it immediately and claimed he wasn’t thinking clearly when he wrote it. Carol kept asking whether it was true until he finally admitted it: he had planned to leave her for Rebecca, and his mother knew.
He insisted things changed after the transplant. So Carol asked why he had been with Rebecca the previous Thursday. Daniel went silent, and Margaret turned to stare at him.
He admitted the affair had continued for the entire year. He said he loved Carol, then admitted he loved Rebecca too. At the heart of this kidney donation betrayal was a man who wanted two lives and refused to give up either one.
Carol thought about all the times he had said he owed her his life. She realized he had owed her one thing all along: the truth.
