160 Lost In The Dark

"What happened then, dad? " Jim finally got the courage to ask.

"I sent her many letters but only got one reply after three years. And in that letter she told me that she had already remarried. I could no longer recall how I managed to endure the pain. Back then, she was my childhood friend, my high school sweetheart until we got married after college."

"I was waiting for her to follow me. I held on to that promise. By then, we could be free. But to be struck by the news that she had remarried was more than I could bear..."

"Then, dad?" Jim was getting more curious and interested to hear his love story.

"I met your mother in Catherine Fields. I was working there, first as a clerk , then as an accountant until I got promoted as the hospital's accounting head. To sum it up, she helped me forget . And eventually, we got married."

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Three years after Mr. Wayne got married to Jim's mother, the sole heiress of Catherine Fields Medical Center, this was how the story