Chapter 6

The wolf in sheep’s clothing

The weather was cool. Rain poured in torrents from the sky.Lightning struck! Thunder crashed!!

I had just left the hospital and was walking home completely drenched from head to toe, I was even shivering but I didn't mind. It'll be okay if I died in the rain. I had no one now anyway. I wished I could turn back the hands of time, I wished... sincerely wished I had done everything to stop my mum from going to work that day.

My mum was gone!

"God, why?" I sunk to the slippery floor and placed my head in my hands and sobbed.

Life isn't fair.

It isn't.

Lights flashed in my eyes and I looked up.

It was a shiny black Lexus Jeep coming my way.

I remained on the floor, I didn't have the strength to stand up nor the will to live. I was tired of life.

Tired!!

The car screeched to a halt when it got close to me.

A man who looked like he was in his mid-thirties alighted from the driver's seat. He