Janey loved Jason more than anything in the world, and it almost hurt the way my wife loved her son more than me. She looked upon him as her second chance at a life she couldn’t live.
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My company was going downhill, our share prices falling to record-breaking lows. I took out loan after loan until my credit rating was so poor only the shadiest of loan sharks would take my harrowed offerings and empty promises of repayments. I couldn’t give up on my life’s work – until I was made to. The company disbanded, and each of my creditors came, bit by bit taking everything I had.

Jason, Janey and I ended up in a one-bed flat in Glasgow, but one day there was a knock on the door. He asked and I replied that I had no more to give. That is when he marched in and pulled Jason over his shoulder as I held back my wife. Her screams still echo in my mind.
That night, Janey left me, like I always feared she would, for taking her second life. I thought all was lost, until one grey day, eight years later…