Chapter55:

I know that if I took Marc to the court it would be unforgivable and yet I knew I would never face the alternative solution of seeing Tio only occasionally, perhaps never. I was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that the only way out of the difficulty was to disappear out of Marc's life for good. How I will accomplish what I was thinking was a big question. I sighed bitterly as I reflected that with a more reasonable man, it would have been sufficient to have discussed the facts and the lawyer would have put them to her. But as the lawyer had summarized Marc was a very determined man and he would fight every step of the way whatever it cost him. I soon reached the big hospital building and climbed the steps with the main entrance. There were more visitors in the children's ward when I reached it and I saw Marc was still sitting beside Tio’s bed, watching him intently as he lay sound asleep, blissfully unaware of the noise and clutter around him. “Hey, Carmen!” Marc rose from his sea