Chapter 13

I arrived more than three hours later with a black station wagon and a brown coffin. After all the formalities, my mother’s corpse was placed inside the brown coffin, onward to the crematorium.

“Here’s her wedding ring, sir,” the elderly doctor spoke as he handed her wedding ring to me.

“Please, be strong. I know it’s not easy…” 

I cut him short and peered inside the coffin and soon realized why I’d been presented with such a massive bill. Apart from work done on her face and hair, the black suit which my mother wore was adorned with an expensive brooch and a clip. 

I bid the clinic staff farewell as the station wagon proceeded to the crematorium at Trans Amadi. 

‘She finally had peace at last,’ I thought. 

Less than thirty minutes later, I was waiting patiently in a small hall that res