Sins of the Father by Angela Benson

Author:Angela Benson [Benson, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061902543
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-One

Isaac pushed back his desk chair and stared out the window. He rolled his shoulders forward to get out the kinks. He knew he should stand and stretch but he was too tired to move. His new work responsibilities coupled with his worry over his dad’s health and the demise of his marriage were taking their toll. He was exhausted, physically and mentally. Now would be a great time for a cruise, a week or two away from everybody and everything.

Thoughts of the cruise brought memories of Rebecca and happier times in their marriage. Their first cruise had been her birthday gift to him. She’d packed his suitcase, put him on a plane to Miami, and only revealed their ultimate destination when the plane landed. He hadn’t been that excited about the idea of a fourteen-day South American cruise but he was deeply touched by her gesture. The trip turned out to be one of the most relaxing vacations he’d taken.

Rebecca. He’d had such high hopes and so many plans for their life together. Those plans were now gone. His life had become destabilized all around. The father, whom he’d always looked up to as larger than life, had shown that he was instead merely another deeply flawed husband and father. And his new half brother and half sister were at the heart of all of it. Sometimes it was too much.

His phone rang as he opened his desk drawer and pulled out the bottle of pills his doctor had prescribed. “Yes, Val,” he said to his father’s secretary.

“A Mrs. Josette Thomas is here to see you.”

Josette? He wondered what she wanted. “Send her in,” he said, quickly popping a couple of pills and putting the bottle back in the desk drawer. Then he got up to meet Josette at the door.

“What brings you by?” he asked. “Is it Michael?”

She shook her head. “Nothing like that. I had lunch with Deborah and thought I’d drop in and thank you for letting me cry on your shoulder the other day at the hospital. I can’t seem to control the tears these days.”

He smiled. “That’s all right. As long as I have a shoulder, you’re welcome to cry on it.”

“That’s sweet of you to say,” she said. “How’s your father?”

“He’s going home in a day or so.”

She nodded. “That’s good to hear. I guess that means he’ll be coming back to MEEG soon. Are you going to stay on after he does?”

Isaac wiped his hands down his face. “I don’t know,” he said.

She studied him. “All this is tough on you, isn’t it?” she asked.

Isaac realized that he wanted to talk about it. Josette had shared her concerns about the family drama with him, so he’d try to do the same with her. “I thought I was handling it,” he said, “but every day there is something else.”

“Does Abraham have other children out there?” she asked.

Isaac laughed a dry laugh. “I certainly hope not. It’s just that I keep learning more about the two he has.

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