Dan stands before his brother's apartment door with a fast-running heartbeat. He is scared to find what's happening at the other end of this door.

He doesn't want this to be true, but everything is pointing at that. Why would Amon lie? Why is his wife not in his apartment, leaving her very young son behind? Where else could she be at this time of the night when most people are sleeping?

His eyes have been staring at his brother's apartment door knob, wondering whether to grab it or not.

His brother has a very bad habit of never locking his door. Whenever confronted by it, he always says that he has nothing valuable inside his house, so there is no need to lock it.

But tonight, Dan hopes that his brother has locked the door, giving him an excuse not to go in and check what's happening.

Because if he doesn't see what's going on inside, he will have a reason to deny his wife's cheating. Even though it's a very delusional view, it's still something to keep his sanity intact.

What he can't see won't turn out to be real. But the moment he does, his life will crumble like a building with no proper foundation.

His hand reaches out for the knob. He grabs it and twists it. The door is not locked, like always.

Dan doesn't know why he expected it to be locked tonight. No. He hoped that it was locked tonight, knowing what his brother could be doing right now.

He pushes open the door and finds the living room very empty.

Like his brother said, he doesn't have anything that's of value in his apartment. A single couch, a few chairs, a medium-sized wall TV, and some fake plants to add a little color to the very bland and empty-looking living room.

Dan walks in. His steps are silent. A thing that became a habit because of his profession.

He looks around and sees nothing. Hope rises, thinking that his brother might not be home as well.

Once again, giving Dan a reason to deny the cheating. But any rational person would think that they might be together right now somewhere else, but not Dan. Dan's life is about to shatter, and he wants to latch only even the tiniest bit of hope, no matter how bleak it is.

But as his steps get closer to his brother's bedroom, that little bit of hope he held onto starts disappearing as he can clearly hear the sounds of sheets getting rustled, a constant pounding, and two very recognisable voices that are moaning.

His eyes lose the very last bit of light as he arrives before his brother's bedroom door.

Just like the front door, this one is not locked either, but unlike the front door, his brother didn't even bother to close this one fully. And why would he? It's not like he expected Dan to show up unannounced.

Dan sees his brother on top of his wife, plunging his cock deep into his wife's pussy, going hard and fast.

The clapping sound of their genitals colliding over and over again hit Dan's ears like needles. His brother's grunts and his wife's loud moans are just salt and spices to the wound.

"Fuck~ Your pussy is made for my cock~" Dan's brother says while staring into Dan's wife's eyes. "Yes~ This pussy is only for you~ Fuck me more~" Dan's wife moans out loud.

Dan just stands there, waiting. He doesn't even have the strength to walk away.

"Hahaha~ I can't believe my idiot brother would leave such a fine woman like you all alone, unattended. Luckily for you, I stepped up to take care of you like the man I am~" Dan's brother says as he continues to pound Dan's wife.

"Yes~ Yes~ you stepped up and made me feel like a woman again~ Your dick is so much bigger than his~ I love the way you fuck me~ Fuck me more~" Dan's wife moans.

"Fuck~ yes~ clench that pussy~ I am about to cum any moment~" Dan's brother says, moaning.

"Yes~ cum inside me~ Put another baby in me~ I want to have your child again~" Dan's wife moans.

Dan stands there, watching and listening in horror as the words that have come out of his wife's mouth just destroyed him.

She is saying that his son is not his son, but his brother's, and now she is begging him to impregnate her with another child.

Dan couldn't take it any longer. He steps away and leaves. He is very angry. He could have barged in and killed both his wife and brother for the atrocity they had just committed, but he didn't do so, because there is an innocent life involved.

Even though his son didn't turn out to be his son, Dan still loved that boy, and he couldn't bring himself to leave that child motherless. So, Dan decided to walk away.

His brother and wife have no idea that they have just been caught. They are still busy fucking each other.

Dan walks out of his brother's apartment and heads straight down to his car and drives away.

'Maybe there is still hope,' He thinks and takes a turn towards the hospital. John was conceived when Dan was somewhat there with his wife and was very active sexually. Maybe John is still his son, and his wife, too, doesn't know who the father really is.

Arriving at the hospital, he provides them with John's hair to match his DNA.

When he does get the result, his last bit of hope dies. John is not his son; the DNA is just a 25% match.

Dan is devested.

Realizing this, he decides to leave the city and never come back.

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As days go by, Dan's wife realizes that Dan's not coming back. When she tries to contact him, she just gets a voice message from him, informing her that he knows about her affair with his brother and that John is not his son.

Dan's wife panics and goes to Dan's brother, who mocks Dan for leaving like a coward.

Now that Dan's gone, they start dating officially. Dan's wife is pregnant again, and this time the pregnancy is much harder because Dan's wife comes to a very late realization.

Now that Dan is gone, there is no source of income for her and her child.

Dan gave her a stable life while she went behind his back and fucked his deadbeat brother, who couldn't get or hold a job.

The person she thought she loved soon became an eyesore to her. Dan's brother was not responsible like him; he couldn't bring in the money that Dan could, and so with a very young son and an infant daughter to take care of, Dan's wife's life became extremely hard, while Dan's brother continued to be a deadbeat.

He couldn't take care of his children. He and Dan's wife got into constant fights. They stopped having sex as well.

Dan's brother also started being abusive with her and her children.

Life became hell for Dan's wife

It became very clear to Dan's wife that without Dan, her life would be shit. She regretted her actions. She tried contacting him again, but couldn't get hold of him, no matter how hard she tried. It's too late.

She soon ended things with Dan's brother as she could no longer see herself being in an abusive relationship with him.

She started working as a prostitute to make ends meet.

Years later, John grew up and started hating her because he found out the truth about his mom's affair, and that Dan, who left them, was just a victim like him.

Her daughter also hated her for letting their father be abusive to them when they were young and left her side the moment she could.

She died at the age of forty-five from AIDS. No one came to her funeral, not even her own children.

As for Dan's brother, he got addicted to drugs, owed money to some vicious loan sharks, and when he couldn't pay them, they cut him up into pieces and sold his body parts to retrieve the money they had loaned.

And how was Dan's life? Pretty awesome.

As soon as he moved to a new city, he won a huge lottery, he found another woman to love, and since he no longer had to be absent for hours and days, he could give her all his love. They had multiple children who were actually his, and he died of old age with a smile on his face.

His last thought was of him thanking Amon for guiding him to the correct path.

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Back to the present.

Amon has a big smile on his face as the kidnappers bring him right outside Shiana's house.

Amon had to give it to Danial for choosing such a nice place for their meeting.

He clearly wanted to make a statement by having both Amon and Shiana under the same roof and show Shiana that the only man who can have her is him.

He wanted to kill Amon right in front of Shiana and make her so traumatized that she would never look at another man again.

Amon, knowing Danial's thoughts, couldn't help but be amazed by his cruelty.

He wonders how Danial would react when his plan crumbles right before his very eyes.

"We are here," the driver says, meeting eyes with Amon through the mirror.

In return, Amon just smiles at the driver, giving him the creeps and a looming sense of dread. He hopes that Amon doesn't kill him.

"Let's go, Poor Danial must be waiting" Amon says and gets out of the car.