Chapter Four

Destiny was a very beautiful girl which everyone cherished, her beauty always amazed everyone both the rich and poor. She has rapid growth, long hair and round face.

  I take good care of her with all the power in my capacity. Now she is five years old but looks like seven years old due to her rapid growth. There is no money to sponsor her in school, so I started teaching her at home with little experience I have. After we have done our daily job, helping people with their household work like sweeping the floor, washing of plates, washing of clothes. We will be given token money which is almost used for consumption.  

All I thought was that it's high time to start a new life with my daughter. As I was about to take a breath of fresh air, robber's attacked the house I am living in. It was a regular occurrence in my area but I was unaware until I paid for the house rent.  

As the robber moved from room to room, I took my daughter beside me, hugging each other, shaking in a single step as if we were dancing in fear. I tried to hide all my money then I heard someone stamping on the door trying to open it forcefully.  

"Who was here?, show your face or we will start shooting " said by the robbers 

"It's me!, I am here" I replied with tears 

A torch light was pointed at us where we are hidden, I feel uncomfortable and undecent. I was half naked, wearing my nightgown. Which was made with net and soft materials. "Where are your money" asked by the robber's, "here" I replied.

  I handed the money over to them and they left. Before, I thought my tears was over not knowing that it just started. "Why was I experience such bad things in my life?, am I cursed? ". I think am thinking this in my mind not knowing that my daughter is hearing me, she cried louder and I joined her in crying. Next day, I decided to move out of the house and look for a safe place.

Since all my money has been stolen I really need to raise money urgently. I work harder than ever, I work from dawn to dusk every single day all because of money.  

After some days, I found a house a long distance from where I was living before. I help one woman to carry a load to deliver to her customer in a small estate. I saw one house in the street which really caught my attention. 

After dropping the loads and collecting my money, I walked to the building and entered the compound. I was so excited with what I saw at the house. It was a storey building of fifteen self-contained apartments.

 The owner of the house was living in the next building. I saw one apartment in front of the compound which seems to be empty. I quickly dressed properly as I could and went to epoch the landlord.

  Landlord told me that he was looking for the caretaker who will take care of the whole apartment but not an ordinary person. I was so happy but hid my feelings, I promised to take care of the house so I pay the little amount with me and promised to pay the remaining when I am finally packed to the house. I packed to the house after two weeks when I completed my payment. 

The landlord was such a nice man to me, he treated me like his real daughter. He introduce me to all the tenant as a new caretaker and I fulfilled my promise by taking care of the house. One day, I received a message from the landlord that he was traveling to one of his children's house. I feel so sad because he is the one in charge of my care since I was in his house, I couldn't stopped him because I don't have the capacity. I promised him to take care of his property. I fulfilled my promise after the landlord had left, some of the young tenants sees this as an opportunity to use the house as they like. They were very surprised that I was so strict and ridge. I took very good care of the house, I and my daughter do sweet the compound in the morning before doing our daily job. 

After two month of settling down in the house, I started thinking on ways to make my life meaningful and my daughter too. I luckily saw a job at one primary school, I was employed as a teacher and token money was given to me at month ending which was used to sponsor my child to school.  

I also engaged in some petty jobs after returning from school and also did extra lessons sometimes for kids after school. Destiny was a very brilliant girl in her class, she always performed well in her study due to her well performance, she was given a double promotion from class to class.  

Two month later after the landlord had left, I received a message that landlord has died I was so surprised to hear the news, I wailed uncontrollably for several days because landlord was God sent to me.  

Next two days after the burial, landlord's children called us together for a meeting. We are informed that the house will be managed and control by a lawyer and would attend to everything concerning the house.

But all the tenant shouted that there was a caretaker who had been doing a great job some years ago. They advice that a the lawyer should work hand in hand with me because I know everything about the house . but the lawyer insisted that he was going to quit me as a caretaker and bring in his own person as a caretaker but other tenant insisted. The landlord's children agreed but the lawyer had a wicked plan in mind.