The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

Ungodly Hour

The sound of the tick and tock from the clock had Elijah’s feet bouncing on the tiles of the dining room floors as he stared at his watch, a sense of nervousness creeping into his chest.

It was Ten-thirty, and he had been staring at this same watch for hours now, still no sign of his wife.

Even though it was like her to come home late, He didn’t expect her to do so on their birthday since she knew how important today was to him.

Looking away from his watch, Elijah sighed and glanced up, the clock showing Eleven pm. Then his gaze directed to the phone, lying on the table, in front of him.

“Will she not pick up again?” Elijah asked out loud, his voice low and soft.

There was a brief pause before he reached for the phone, his fingers fumbling with it as he tried to dial Melina’s number.

“The number you have called  is currently unavailable…” A robotic female voice said on the other side of the line, causing Elijah to drop his head backward on the chair, a frown plastered on his face.

“Is she not going to answer me anymore?” He muttered in slight disappointment.

“Eleven Fifteen,” The clock on the wall read, and Elijah continued to be patient, hitting his foot repeatedly against the tiles.

Eleven twenty-two and still no sight of his wife. It has been the whole day since she left this morning that he had not seen her, and it was starting to worry him.

Elijah’s eyes wandered back towards his phone, then up to the clock again, watching the minutes tick by one by one until eleven-thirty.

That’s when Elijah finally had enough and woke from the chair, abandoning the table filled with food that he had made for Melina, and left the dining room.

The feeling of love is a heavy burden that weighed on Elijah’s heart for years since he married Melina and started living with her as a stay-at-the-home husband.

Respect was not something she would give to him often because of his low status in life, being a man who had no job and just lived off her.

else. She was the most important person in his life, and he felt like it was time for him to be honest to her about a lie he had been telling all

room was not only to celebrate both of them thirty

glass building, and the driver looked back at Elijah and said, “We have

and gazed away from the time on his watch, which was twelve on the dot now, and reached his hands

slowly towards the doors, not knowing if anyone

stopped him, flashing his flashlight in Elijah’s face,

people usually looked down

of them said he was doing so to use Melina for her

than to get involved in such petty arguments with people he did not want to associate with because they knew nothing about him and

security questioned in an irritated tone, eyeing the watch on Elijah’s wrist as if looking

plainly, making sure that the guard knew who he was talking

between the two men as the security continued staring him down, his cold demeanor hardening, as well as the boldness in

damn thing on your wrist not working?!” The security exclaimed, glaring at him as if Elijah was some criminal. “Don’t you know how to

husband, and people saw that as

wife still in the building? I know she stays here late to get work done, so can you please take me to her office?” Elijah asked politely, his face calm and

words left Elijah’s mouth, the security became visibly annoyed by his attitude, as if he had said something offensive, and then he lashed out at Elijah, “Look, Mr. Hayes!

his chest, making

pushing his palms against Elijah’s chest forcefully,

your ass kicked out of here!” The security shouted at Elijah, who remained

step back, restraining himself from reaching up to slap the guard in the face,

security and Janitors. How dare 

a brow, Elijah took another step back, putting his hands into both his trouser pockets to stop himself from grabbing the security by his shirt

Elijah and asked, “Mr. Hayes, what are you up to here actually? Huh?! You think you’re entitled and above everyone just because you’re married to the

a moment and then asked, “Did you say only the securities and janitors are

that Elijah was playing his anger off and dismissing him made the guard madder. His fist clenched into a tight ball as he