Chapter 51. Sold

“Where is the runt?! Where is my son?”

Isaiah Kopano came out of his office to see what all the commotion was about. At the entrance of the orphanage where a hassled secretary, a dark-skinned woman with braided hair and a polyester gown was trying to calm the man shouting. It was a bearded man with shaggy hair and worn-out clothes.

“What is going on here, Sarah?” Isaiah asked.

Sarah turned grateful to find him there. “This man says he is looking for his son.”

Isaiah cast a weary gaze at Johann standing there reeking of vomit and booze. He knew Johann very well, everyone in the Miners Village knew him because they had encountered him at one point or another in gutters and on the streets. “Your son?”

“Don’t question me, bring him out.”

“Well, who is your son?”

“Nathaniel or whatever his name is.”

Isaiah turned to Sarah who was watching the exchange, she was glad she didn’t have to deal with the smelly, rude, white man stained with grime.