Chapter 18: Chapter 18 - The Widow Wants to Confess 2
He remembered my concern when he visited the hospital, but was surprised that the woman who always bought him sweets, things, and clothes was his future adopted mother.
I understood why he didn’t recognize me when we met at the orphanage.
When working at the hospital, I always wore medical masks and a cap, as his visits always coincided with the most difficult period of my working hours, so he never saw my face or even the color of my hair.
Sohen fit well into our family, but for a while there were some problems with Phoebe. However, my daughter’s attitude changed over time, and now they have an extremely warm relationship, like that between a brother and sister.
My son quickly adapted to all the new conditions and, over time, became probably the most responsible member of the family and started working at a young age to support our family budget.
My mother and I were very proud of him, but we often said that my grandmother and I would take care of the family budget, but Sohen said that it was his responsibility as a "man" and that he had to help us at least in this way.
For some reason, the word "man" stuck in my mind, and soon Sohen would show me the true meaning of these words through his actions.
My mother is also a single mother, and in my life I had almost no opportunity to see what male support could mean.
My husband was a bad example of what a man should be, and my biological father was even worse, as he left my mother alone at the most difficult moment of her life and never appeared before us again.
I knew I was still pretty and had a nice body, but after my husband died, I lost interest in being around men or even being intimate, and I ended up liking being alone.
There were many men who flirted with me, but they all seemed unworthy of me, and I began to compare them to my son, who, as a young man, seemed a much better option for what a real man should be.
Sohen was really different from the others and always sincerely wanted to help me, and one day, my attitude towards him changed, and his presence makes my heart beat faster, my body tremble, and my lonely hole go crazy and get wet.
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Karin was a truly beautiful woman, and her colleagues, friends, relatives, and even strangers knew it.
Many men tried to flirt with her, but she ignored them. However, there was one married man who wanted to be with her.
He was the manager of a company located near Karin’s workplace.
At first, it was just verbal conversation, then light flirting, then "anonymous" gifts appeared, and then he directly offered to meet secretly.
I hated this man and asked him to stop, but he still tried to talk to me and offer his options for us to be together.
In the end, the hospital administration banned him from visiting her unless it was related to medical care.
For a while, everything was fine, but then he found out my address and started coming to see me almost every day and asking me to be his lover.
This went on for several months, and in the end, I was allowed to file a restraining order against this man, and the relevant authorities informed him that stalking would lead to serious legal problems.
This worked, but as a result, Karin found out that his wife had decided to divorce him when she received official confirmation of her husband’s infidelity and that there had been other incidents with other women.
The man lost his family, as he had three children, and his wife took almost all the property and money they had acquired during their years of living together.
His workplace learned about their employee and fired him.
The story of infidelity was not important to his company, but legal problems were another matter.
He lost everything, and for some reason, Karin herself became to blame for all his problems.
Late at night, he came to her house drunk and accused Karin of all his failures.
He behaved very aggressively and grabbed Karin’s hand, saying that she was now his woman and would do whatever he wanted.
At that moment, Karin was at home alone with her mother and Phoebe, and Sohen was due to return soon.
She was very worried about her mother and daughter, as this man was not in a fit state.
- (Sohen). "Mom? What’s going on?"
When I started thinking about getting help, my son appeared almost immediately and was surprised by what he saw.
- (Man). "What? ... So this is your fucker? I’ll knock his head off. You’re only my bitch..."
The man let go of her hand and went after Sohen with the intention of hitting him.
That man was almost 7 feet tall and weighed about 250 pounds, while Sohen was a fifteen-year-old boy who was almost 30 centimeters shorter and 30 kilograms lighter.
He got quite close to Sohen and punched him in the face with all his might, causing my son to fall several meters backward.
- (Karin). "Sohen!..."
I ran up behind the man and jumped on him, trying to stop him, but he broke free from my grip and pushed me away so hard that I fell on my buttocks.
- (Sohen). "Mom!..."
My son was still conscious, and I was happy that he was alive.
- (Man). "You bitch... Now you’re my property and I..."
He tried to say something, but couldn’t.
The next few minutes were a real horror...
- (Karin). "Sohen?..."
My sweet and friendly son... beat this man almost to death, and if it weren’t for the police team that Mom had called a few minutes earlier, Sohen could have really killed him.
It was the first time I had seen Sohen so... cruel and ruthless.
Karin didn’t know how, but every blow Sohen struck seemed to take away a piece of that man’s life.
In total, Sohen struck about 200 blows all over his body, and the injuries that could be seen with the naked eye were horrific.
The man’s entire face was covered in bruises and hematomas, and some areas were severely swollen. Most of his teeth had been knocked out by Sohen’s fists, his nose was deformed, and his entire body was covered in injuries that would most likely have serious consequences.
The entire police team was shocked when they saw the condition of this burly man and that these brutal injuries had been inflicted on him by a fifteen-year-old boy.
One of the police officers showed respect for my son and said that he knew this man and that he deserved it, but warned us about criminal liability and that we needed to prepare for court.
Apart from that group of police officers, me, my mother, and the school administration, no one knows what happened that day.
Sohen was suspended from school for a certain period of time, and two weeks later, the trial took place.
To my surprise, Sohena had a rather authoritative and professional lawyer who defended his interests in this case.
After the trial, Sohen said that he had hired him and that it had cost him a lot of money, but he took all the blame and took out a loan to pay for the lawyer’s services, and that Karin didn’t need to worry about the amount, as he would pay it back himself.
The trial was long, and new information about the man’s past came to light each time.
It turned out that he was much worse than she thought, and he had been in prison several times and had a long history of criminal acts committed in the past.
His appearance during the trial was terrible; he had survived and was in a wheelchair, but that did not help him, and in the end, my son avoided criminal charges but will owe that scumbag a significant amount of money.
That man himself was much less fortunate and, after medical rehabilitation, he will go to prison and will probably spend half his life there, or possibly more.
Sohen and I returned home and our lives continued without any significant problems, but I will remember this incident for a long time, and my attitude towards it will change over time, and my body will be filled with new emotions.
