The Marvelous Elijah's Return

Chapter 1

 

The sound of the tick and tock from the clock had Elijah’s feet bouncing on the tiles of the dining room floors as he stared at his watch, a sense of nervousness creeping into his chest.

It was Ten-thirty, and he had been staring at this same watch for hours now, still no sign of his wife.

Even though it was like her to come home late, He didn’t expect her to do so on their birthday since she knew how important today was to him.

 

Looking away from his watch, Elijah sighed and glanced up, the clock showing Eleven pm. Then his gaze directed to the phone, lying on the table, in front of him.

 

“Will she not pick up again?” Elijah asked out loud, his voice low and soft.

 

There was a brief pause before he reached for the phone, his fingers fumbling with it as he tried to dial Melina’s number.

 

“The number you have called  is currently unavailable…” A robotic female voice said on the other side of the line, causing Elijah to drop his head backward on the chair, a frown plastered on his face.

 

“Is she not going to answer me anymore?” He muttered in slight disappointment.

 

“Eleven Fifteen,” The clock on the wall read, and Elijah continued to be patient, hitting his foot repeatedly against the tiles.

 

Eleven twenty-two and still no sight of his wife. It has been the whole day since she left this morning that he had not seen her, and it was starting to worry him.

 

Elijah’s eyes wandered back towards his phone, then up to the clock again, watching the minutes tick by one by one until eleven-thirty.

 

That’s when Elijah finally had enough and woke from the chair, abandoning the table filled with food that he had made for Melina, and left the dining room.

 

The feeling of love is a heavy burden that weighed on Elijah’s heart for years since he married Melina and started living with her as a stay-at-the-home husband.

 

Respect was not something she would give to him often because of his low status in life, being a man who had no job and just lived off her.

 

But his love for Melina was something that Elijah has never given up on. His affection for her came first than anything else. She was the most important person in his life, and he felt like it was time for him to be honest to her about a lie he had been telling all these years.

 

room was not only to celebrate both of them thirty years old birthdays,

 

five-story glass building, and the driver looked back

 

his watch, which was twelve

 

and walked slowly towards the doors, not

 

in Elijah’s face, and then furrowed his brow as he let out, “Mr.  Elijah

 

and people usually looked down on him for taking her

 

less about what they think or say, even though most of

 

in such petty arguments with people he did not want to associate with because they knew nothing about him and spoke out

 

irritated tone, eyeing the watch on Elijah’s wrist as if looking

 

making sure that the guard

 

men as the security continued staring him down,

 

The security exclaimed, glaring at him as if Elijah was some criminal. “Don’t you know how to tell time or something? If you weren’t Mrs. Hayes’

 

not bother Elijah that much because after marrying Melina, his worth in the eyes of others had changed drastically because he was a stay-at-home husband, and people saw that as him

 

building? I know she stays here late to get work done, so

 

if he had said something offensive, and then he lashed out at Elijah, “Look, Mr. Hayes! You don’t have the right to barge into this building without

 

his chest, making him clench his fists

 

front of him, pushing his palms

 

call for backup and  have your ass kicked out of here!” The security shouted at Elijah, who remained rooted on the spot in shock and anger, his eyes widening at the

 

in the face, who looked like he

 

  you try to enter the building without permission!?” The guard

 

into both his trouser pockets to stop himself from grabbing the security by his shirt and knocking the shit out

 

of rage and hate in the security eyes was unsettling as he pointed an accusing finger at Elijah and asked, “Mr. Hayes, what are you up to here actually? Huh?! You

 

thoughts for a moment and then asked, “Did

 

clenched into a tight ball as he took a few steps forward and replied, “You’re not getting it,

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