“Cairo, speak. Tell everyone the truth. How many years have you been deceiving everyone, including your wife?”
“The time has come for you to face your cowardice.”
Cairo’s face turned chalk white.
He looked at me.
In his eyes, I saw shame.
“Dad, please.”
Mr. Johnson’s voice turned iron.
“If you don’t speak today, don’t call me father again.”
Under his father’s pressure, Cairo finally broke.
He sank to the floor.
He sobbed.
“It’s my fault. It’s all my fault,” he said. “I… I can’t have children.”
The confession struck like lightning.
Mrs. Johnson staggered.
She grabbed a chair.
“You… what did you say? Repeat it.”
“Three years ago, test results confirmed that I am infertile due to complications from an illness I had as a child,” Cairo continued.
“I didn’t have the courage to tell anyone.”
“I was afraid.”
“Afraid mom would be disappointed.”
“Afraid Selene would leave me.”
“So I hid it.”
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