When Fate Faltered
Then, expressionless, I told him, “People’s inherent flaws are in their bones. Sooner or later, they will surface. Asking this is meaningless.”
Joel smiled bitterly, rubbed his face, and left.
Not long after, Yorks Corporation filed for bankruptcy.
On the way back home with his parents, Joel was involved in a car accident.
Perhaps it was karmic retribution.
A head injury left him deaf, and his left leg could no longer walk normally. He became partially disabled.
His parents were fine, just minor concussions that would heal with time.
Someone in the hospital said, “Joel lay on the bed, crying and laughing at the same time, muttering over and over that this was retribution to what he had done.
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