Chapter 14

The television sets in Riverside Hospital had so much news going around about the incidence the previous night. Surprisingly, Booker’s face was all in the news, it seemed more like a celebrity was shot. It was in that moment that Linda began to understand that Booker wasn’t trying to show off. He was in fact popular in Florida.

“You know, I always told him about leaving this hard life. I thought he said he was done with this life?” Toby commented in a rather dejected tone. All along, Linda was by his side in a pool of her own tears. The gown that she had on was already stained with Booker’s blood. There was so much going through her mind at that point. She just kept on praying in her mind that Booker gets better.

At intervals, she stood to check the blinds of the ward where he was being treated, but there was next to nothing that he could see. Linda felt distraught. In between her indiscreet prayers for Booker, her mind began to flash back once more at how much she had p