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you feel necessary, but just remember Adam, I am
not lying to you.”
    Lydia rose from her seat
and left Adam’s office. Once outside his door, she leaned against
the wall and cried. Adam heard her crying but remained behind his
desk. He wanted to believe his wife; he did, but being a
doctor, he knew the hospital could not have made this horrible
mistake. Adam picked up his phone and called his father.
    “Dad, can you and Mom come up to my
office? I have a problem.”
    “What’s wrong Adam? Is it
Gail?”
    Choking back the tears, he said, “I
can’t discuss it on the phone. Please, Dad, I need you and
Mom.”
    Concerned, Colin turned to his wife.
“Something is wrong with Adam. He wants us in his office. I think
he was crying.”
    Fear gripped Margaret. “Is it
Gail?”
    “I don’t know. He won’t discuss it on
the phone.”

    They found Lydia sitting on the floor
outside Adam’s office. Colin bent down and helped her to stand.
“Why are you crying?”
    Lydia lowered her head and
stared at the floor. “We’ve just discovered inconsistencies in
Gail’s medical records. I don’t know how to say this. Her blood
type does not match ours. Gail’s blood type is AB Negative." Lydia
followed them into Adam’s office. Still seated behind his desk, he looked surprised when she followed his parents into the room .
    Colin spoke first. “We
asked Lydia to come with us. It’s obvious to us that something is terribly
wrong. Is it Gail?”
    Adam looked down at the folder in front
of him. “Indirectly, it is about Gail.” He focused his stare on
Lydia. “I gave you the opportunity to tell me the truth.” He held
the folder in his hand. “This folder contains Gail’s DNA test.
While it is a preliminary test, the markers do not lie. Gail is not
my biological daughter. I’m asking you again, Lydia, were you
unfaithful to me?”
    Once again, Lydia told him the truth.
“I was never unfaithful to you. I don’t know how many times I have
to say it. There must be another explanation.”
    “There isn’t Lydia!” Adam screamed as
he slammed his hand on the desk. “I have the fucking proof in my
hand! My brother is Gail’s father! The genetic markers already
found match his blood. Why would you lie to me?”
    Lydia blinked several times as she
tried to absorb this information. Colin and Margaret looked at each
other, and at that moment, the pieces of the puzzle fit together
perfectly. “Oh my God Colin, it was Lydia.”
    Colin sat dumbfounded . His mind raced with the implications of this discovery. Lost
in thought, he did not hear Adam. “Dad, what the hell is going
on?”
    “Before I say anything, we want the two
of you to know we love you very much. What I am about to tell you
will affect the entire family, especially Gail. What you choose to
do with this information is up to you. Adam, do you remember the
events surrounding your twenty-eighth birthday?”
    “How am I supposed to remember what
happened almost twenty years ago? What does this have to do with
Gail?”
    Sighing, Colin continued.
“John wrote a letter to your mother and me, informing us that he
was entering the priesthood. Maggie was furious because he did
not discuss this with us before making such an important
decision. John was resolute in his decision and confessed in his
letter that he...he...drugged a young woman to make her an
unwilling sexual partner. He was in love with her, and when she
married someone else, he became obsessed with her.”
    “He drugged her wine, and
when she was unable to defend herself, he had sex with her.”
Looking at Lydia, he said, “I am sorry Lydia. He never mentioned
the girls name in the letter. We went to the police and reported
the crime, but the detective told me he needed a name before he
could issue an arrest warrant. We gave the cops John’s picture,
and we never heard from them. We searched for him for several
weeks, and we could not find him. Eventually, we gave up the
search.”
    Adam’s entire