EQUITY & INVESTMENT 4

It wasn’t difficult to find her. Given his vast resources and resourcefulness, he had the details in front of him within days of his decision to have her traced. She was living in Hemel Hempstead just outside London, and she was living with a man, she was unmarried.

Along with the file on his desk, there were photographs, bittersweet memories of the past. Seeing her face was like a ghost come to life, it haunted him as he stared at her, his heart gripped by a red hand, the emotional pain intense. To see his children grown older and yet so recognisable was almost too much to bear. To think that he was a stranger to them crippled him inside. Yet he had to look, he had to open that box.