James was beginning to forget how difficult it had been for him to start his own business. Only thanks to his friends was he able to rise in this life. He was an orphan himself, his parents and grandparents had died. He was also in that car, but by some miracle someone managed to throw him out of the car window.
Now he had a profitable business and a beautiful wife. Only their wife could not have children. James was afraid to get tested, what if it was his fault, then he would feel inferior as a man. His wife was also an orphan, so he could not leave her, his conscience would not allow it. So he lived not very satisfied with his family life, because he still wanted children.
Since some time James began to cheat on his wife. At first he cheated on her with his secretary, then he came up with an entertainment, going every Friday to an elite restaurant, where he met girls. He had enough money, so he bought himself a small apartment, secretly from his wife, where he took his “Friday” girlfriends.
Once he had a crush on one girl for a long time and even let her stay in his very “Friday” apartment. She was not that beautiful, but some very gentle and sweet in appearance and character. James loved just lying next to this girl and enjoying the peace that came from her. She had a birthmark in the shape of a fish on her shoulder.
After a while the girl disappeared. She gathered her things and left the apartment without saying goodbye. James couldn’t reach her or find anyone to ask where she was. As sorry as it was to lose the girl, James gradually forgot about her. New hobbies emerged, life did not stand still, James did not like to be discouraged for a long time, he knew how to quickly readjust to the positive wave.
And then the moment came when my wife started talking about the fact that they would probably have to take a child from an orphanage, since they could not give birth to their own.
– I don’t mind, I went through the orphanage myself, and I know it’s not just kids with bad parentage,” James said.
– Well, let’s go and do it,” his wife said excitedly.
– Don’t hurry, I’ll make inquiries and arrange everything myself,” said James and got down to the task of finding the child.
After a while the man got a call.
– A young mother in our maternity ward died today after a difficult delivery, but the baby is still alive,” the head of the maternity ward told the man, “If you act now, this baby could be yours.
– Is it a boy or a girl? – James asked, feeling his heart freeze with excitement.
– A girl, and a healthy, beautiful and something like you, – laughed the manager.
– Can I look at her? – James asked.
– Come right now, before I go home, while we discuss your plan of further action, – she agreed.
Fifteen minutes later James walked in the back door of the maternity hospital to meet his fate.
Of course, the baby did not look like him, well, maybe just a little bit. James smiled at the girl, and she smiled back at him unexpectedly and probably unconsciously.
– Turn her around, please,” James asked.
Baby turned around, he looked at her, and suddenly on the shoulder he saw the familiar “fish”, and he froze with horror.
– And what is it? – James asked the nurse.
– It is a birthmark, they say her poor mother, too, – sighed the nurse.
When James walked into the morgue, he saw the very girl he’d been trying so hard to forget all this time, and he was sure he’d succeeded. He walked up to her, kissed her cold forehead, and cried for the first time in his life.
James paid for the girl’s funeral, and the daughter was given to him without any difficulty, barely after he provided the results of the genetic test. It was a strange and surprising case, and none of the lawyers, much less doctors, could remember anything similar from their practice.
The girl was named Isabella, and his wife turned a blind eye to what had happened and became her foster mother, because, despite everything, she loved her husband and did not want to lose him.
