Chapter Ten

It was about 7am in the morning Mr Coker woke up like every other working day, he got himself dressed for work and left immediately, without having breakfast. Mrs Coker woke up from her sleep as the droplets of rain that fell in torrents last night made the morning air breezy and cold, a wet night it was. She got up from the bed clumsily and looked at the wall clock placed in the middle of the room adjacent to their bed. It was seven thirty, she grouched still feeling sleepy. She laid back again in bed and watched as two black birds hopping on the window chirped. Her senses felt numb accompanied by a feeling of tiredness, as their was a need to rest. Immediately she recalled, that a presentation had to be given by her at the office, and it needed to be attended to quickly. Getting up from her bed immediately she went into the bathroom and had her bath. Instructions were passed by her to everyone that was part of the household. The day was still young

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Chapter Eleven

All that Edna thought about Mr Coker, was his Complacent behaviour and the rift that grew between him and his wife as the days passed by. On Tuesday, they had been an argument between the both of them which had led Mr Coker to the choice of coming back home late at the middle of the night as he reeked of alcohol. It came as a shock to Edna when the quarrels increased and the cause of the problems, was yet unknown to her but got her thinking .Mrs Coker had left early that morning to the office to get some of the papers given to her by the secretary, the previous day to review. Much later in the afternoon, her boss in the office had called for her to come to his office. On getting to his office, she felt perturbed because the secretary and other members of the company had been informed about the retrenchment of some workers. She walked into his office feeling frightened a bit, as she sat down now on the sofa chair. He handed a letter to her that was enclos

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Chapter Twelve

The Season for the rains had come and it seemed to Edna that the gate of heavens, were open as the rain fell down heavily. She heard a sound but couldn't detect immediately if it was her mind, playing games with her or it was a reality. Immediately her memory recalled that she had seen a strange man at the kitchen but had not found the appropriate time to tell Mrs Coker in order to avoid upsetting her. Cold shivers ran through her body as the thoughts of strange figures moving around scared her. A sound came again from the main entrance, of the house which got her startled leading to more curiosity. 'What if they were dangerous people at the door' she thought.It would be of great relief if someone could walk to the sitting room and observe were the sounds were coming from, but every member of the household seemed to be asleep except for her which even increased the tension she felt. It was difficult for her to sleep comfortably, but the only

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Chapter Thirteen

"Are you telling me he has to be transferred to another hospital?" No amount of sympathy could erase the pain Mrs Coker felt at the moment. At the middle of the night she had stayed up late to make sure her husband was properly attended to by the doctor and refusing to yield her aching body to the cravings of a rest. Mrs Coker looked anguished in pain at the doctor, she was trying to get her mind to think properly. She turned and looked at the nurses in the ward. After sometime she looked at the doctor and asked what his health condition was at the moment. "His chest area, seems to be badly injured, and there will be a need of him getting a surgical operation although, the probability of his survival, is low." "But don't worry ma, we would do our possible best to keep him alive, at the moment. I have to make sure he is transferred to a better hospital were he could get a

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Chapter Fourteen

For sometime now, she felt safe and had obediently worked for them but things had turned around so soon as she became a part of them, but Mrs Coker let her stay with them undermining the circumstances surrounding their lives. Having lost her job, she decided to go sell some wares at the street market down the road but already she had made some contacts with people to notify her when a vacancy for a job is on. She also dropped her application letters in some of the companies that had vacancy. The day was a sunny one with the sun emitting it's scorching rays to the earth. They both stood as they called in a loud tone for people to purchase their wares. A man dressed in a red shirt came to purchase what she sold. From a distance, Edna saw little children playing with a carton made toy and singing songs of praise as they giggled at each other, suddenly one of the children in the midst of them began to cry because he had not made any from his carton . The

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All Chapters of The Unforseen: Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen