Out of the Shadows

LL

This is short excerpt - it's a tale of triumph over adversity and has a great end...when I get there. A 'dark' start, but apart from some setbacks in this man's journey towards fulfillment, it is a novel which will leave the reader with a great sense of satisfaction and warmth

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It's difficult to know where to begin, but it all started shortly after the untimely natural death of his wife.

He was at an end, at that moment in time. This tale is full of them, but corners are turned and the horizon brightens...

Back to the beginning, some 10 years ago. 

He walked into his garage and locked the doors. Hanging on a hook was a length of orange colored nylon rope. He stood, he thought about everything that had happened, locked in a small world forced upon him by fate. The present didn't seem to be there. He was frozen in his own cocoon of time, and thought.

It seemed everything stood still. The only thoughts that entered his mind were the loss of his wife and subsequent betrayal by another woman. Mindlessly, his hand reached out for the rope. Staring ahead, but seeing nothing, he fashioned a noose. Then he threw the other end of the rope over a beam in the garage roof. Some dust fell from the beam but he didn't notice it, the motes catching a shaft of sunlight that had just shone through the rear window of the garage.

He was distracted from his morbid reverie by the sunlight. He looked down at his hands and the noose he was holding and then dropped it as though it was red hot. He was shaking. Mostly with relief and realization that he had come close to his own death. He spun round faced the doors and unlocked them. Staggering out into that sunlight on weakened legs, he suddenly threw off the black mood that had enveloped him for days and weeks.

He didn't believe in divine intervention, but that was what it seemed like. He went back into the house drank a large mug of coffee, regained some composure, and determined on a plan for his life. But first there was one matter that needed taking care of and she knew nothing of his intentions...

He was a very wealthy man - resources were not a problem - and he was resourceful to a degree that many others were not. He went to his office and with a new found energy and started on his quest..........