(Un)faithful Family Man

– Yes, Adil, if you really need to hear this – I still haven’t forgotten you. And I also haven’t forgotten our wedding day.

I freeze half a step from the bedroom when I realize who exactly my husband is talking to.

Adil is his ex-fiancée—the one with whom they never had a wedding, but whom, as I knew, he had loved without measure.

– Mikel, well, stop talking about the wedding! Then it didn’t work out—this time it will. I haven’t forgotten you either, my dear. You would know how much I’m suffering…

I can hardly breathe, waiting for my husband’s reply, and his answer comes:

– I’m suffering too, Adi. But I have a family—you remember that.

I ran home for five minutes, and came out almost destroyed—and my husband did that to me.

He still suffers over the former, who hints to him that they should finally get married.

But then what are we—me and our daughter—for Mikhail? I used to think we were the center of the universe.

As it turns out, we’re only an attribute of a business-minded man.