Intertwined Lives
Rinaldo Rinaldi
Patrick, aged 40, is trying to rebuild his life after discovering his wife Isabel’s infidelity last year. Patrick and Isabel have been married for 13 years and have two children, Charles, aged 14, and Julie, aged 11. They both work at the hospital in Cartagena, Spain, as registered nurses. They had met 15 years earlier, whilst working at the hospital, and had hit it off straight away. They were both 20 and had recently completed their training as professional nurses. After five years of engagement, the couple decided to get married. The following year, Isabel became pregnant and gave birth to Charles. Three years later, Julie was born.
For the first ten years, married life was wonderful, and Ines, Isabel’s mother, had played a big part in raising the children, looking after them when Isabel was busy with her hospital shifts. But then things began to change. The hospital shifts had become increasingly intense and constant; their life as a couple was almost non-existent, not to mention their sex life, and the few moments when Patrick and Isabel could spend time together with their children were truly scarce. Arguments and fights occurred more and more frequently. Until a year ago, when everything fell apart.
Patrick was carrying out his duties as a nurse and had been given the task of replacing the dirty sheets on the patients’ beds with freshly laundered ones. Patrick therefore entered the linen store when ………… he froze. In front of him, his wife Isabel was having sex with two other nurses. In their haste and caught up in uncontrollable passion, the trio had forgotten to lock the linen store. Isabel was being double-penetrated, both anally and vaginally, and as soon as Patrick entered the store, they all stopped.
Their eyes met in terrible embarrassment. Isabel instinctively turned her head to see who had entered. Recognising her husband, she said: “Hey, you two. Why have you stopped? Come on, fuck me again.”
Patrick didn’t know what to do or what to say. After a moment of awkwardness and intense discomfort, he left the storeroom, closing the door behind him. Then he collapsed to the floor and burst into tears. His whole world had come crashing down. His beloved wife was having fun with two men. Thoughts raced through his mind. His children, his family, his parents; what should he do? What should he say? Hide everything and pretend nothing had happened, or reveal the truth? And what about his own colleagues? How many of them had already taken advantage of Isabel? How many knew what she was doing in the linen store? What did they think of him? With great effort, he pulled himself up from the floor and made his way towards the exit. He got into his car and drove away from the hospital.
Patrick had been driving for an hour already, wandering the city streets with no fixed destination, thinking and crying. The image of his wife being taken by two men at the same time was etched before his eyes, powerful, devastating, impossible to believe.
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