A Man Caught His Wife Having an Affair with His ‘Golden’ Brother at Their Family’s Vacation Home — He Pretended Not to Know, but the Next Evening, They Showed Up at His Door, Shouting, ‘What the Hell Have You Done?!’

Mom reached for my hand.

“We can’t undo the past. But we can do better.”

I swallowed.

“Thank you.”

Kai shifted in his chair.

Then he said, “I owe you an apology too.”

I looked at him.

He struggled with the words.

“For the project. I should have credited you. And for Molly…”

He stopped.

I waited.

“I knew what I was doing was wrong,” he admitted. “I just kept telling myself that you two were already unhappy and that I wasn’t really hurting you.”

I stared at him.

“Did you ever ask me whether I was unhappy?”

“No.”

“Did you ask whether I wanted a divorce?”

“No.”

“Did you ever think about what this would do to me?”

He rubbed his forehead.

“Not enough.”

It wasn’t a perfect apology.

But it was the first honest sentence I’d heard from him in a long time.

I nodded.

“I appreciate you saying that.”