Jabez’s world was crumbling down; he couldn’t believe the misery that had befallen him. He remembered his time in jail and wished he could go back; at least there he’d have a place to lay his head, a meal and people to talk to.
He walked on aimlessly after watching the flashy car enter Linda’s compound, his former compound since as it seemed then, he was no longer welcome in his own home, his dear wife sent him away like a dog, his own daughter couldn’t recognize him, and there was a man living where he should have been.
Tears again rolled down his cheeks, he did not try to blush them off, he just walked on without any sense of direction, without any purpose in life, Dusk was fast approaching and the people he met though he could recognize some, they didn’t recognize him nor see the tears on his face.
He thought of jumping onto an oncoming car and end his life but he convinced himself against it, the road being too worn out the vehicles were moving rather slowly and couldn’t get him the desired effect. Death.
A few hours back he was a...