Life had got him in the end.
‘You will learn what’s it’s like to be responsible for a helpless human being!’ life was saying to him, ‘Whether you like it or not’.
It certainly wasn’t that he didn’t like it, just that it was ironic, that was all. Lek had offered him a veto, but he knew how much she wanted to bring up her granddaughter, even though she had not pushed for the job, but it was their custom, and it was her turn to be ‘mother’ to a baby, even if Shell wasn’t her baby by birth, she was by tradition.
Lek felt as if she was fulfilling the rôle she had really been born to be doing – looking after young, defenceless members of her family. Yes, she had a good job with the council and yes, she was a partner in several businesses, but none of that gave her the pleasure and satisfactio
