Chapter 90

• Old Mr. Jones was entering a new phase in his life: rock bottom. He had just lost his job, his entire savings swiped from his bank account due to identity theft, and he was in over his head in debts. Today, like yesterday and the day before that, he considered ending it all. Then again, he always hit pause. He had his wife and granddaughter to think about, after all.
• Sometimes life just seemed to come at you, bringing bad luck after bad luck and disaster after disaster. Not only had his only child and her husband just died from a car accident, leaving their only eight-year-old girl with him and his wife, but the company he had worked for had laid him off, along with fifty others. A week later, his wife had a mild heart attack, freaking him out so much that he himself nearly had a heart attack. Then that same week, he found his bank savings had been drained, and he hadn’t a clue how since he hadn’t been withdrawing any money. A phone call to the bank confirmed that it was a case of identity theft as the money had been withdrawn from another country. While waiting for the bank to fix the problem, Mr. Jones was penniless and in debt. He hadn’t a clue how he was going to make their next mortgage payment, let alone pay the bills or buy groceries. In fact, he only had five dollars in his wallet right now, which was for his lunch.
• He was about to get up and go get himself a sandwich when he noticed a little boy in front of him. Mr. Jones admitted he had never seen such a beautiful toddler before. The kid was the stuff of TV shows with dark-brown hair and dark eyes.