Chapter 2: Thomas Valor's past
In the lands of valor, lived an orphan by birth meaning she lost both her parents as soon as she was born. Her mother died while giving birth to her and as for her father he died long before she was born in a tragic death 💀 while working in the iron factory🏭. Henceforth, the girl was brought up in an orphanage owned by the Valor's. When she was 3 years old when she began schooling in the subsidiary of the orphanage, yes , the orphanage was a community for home, education and also employment.
There were different buildings for various purposes served accordingly; like a research facility, hospitals, schools, companies and many such establishments. Some of the children brought up there would get adopted, some moved out after becoming an independent adult and so venture into high society and establish themselves aiming for a bright future ahead or settling with getting a safe job elsewhere while, some preferred to work and live there. It isn't an understatement to say the valor estate was a mini world🌍 in itself.
It served as a means of support for many lives living there with their beloved ones. Both men and women equally were given opportunities as per their strength resulting in better quality at life. The valor estate had farms, industries and services as people worked in all sectors.
Thomas Valor, the owner of the orphanage was a middle-aged man♂️. The city was named after his surname as he built it and became the owner of valor industries. He is a renowned businessman and also a philanthropist. Thomas once had a family of his own, married to the love💕 of his life🧬 and due to become father. His wife was a great lady known to be from one of the respectable families of time. Thomas was living his blissful life till fate decided to play its part and took away his loved ones forever.
It happened when his wife was five months pregnant🤰🏻, they decided to go camping, both Thomas and his wife were known to be adventurous but his wife was more of it than him. So they went to the mountains for a camping holiday, his wife decided to play a prank on her husband and ventured alone in the mountains they would usually. She was a few minutes into the mountains when it started raining🌧️, whining she decided to go back. As unpredictable as is the weather in mountain🏔️ regions so is the fate. When she was going back due to the rain, the soil became moist and slippery making it hard to walk and one misstep made her roll away deep into the mountains.
On the other hand, unbeknownst to Thomas, he was napping in his tent when he suddenly woke up to the sound of rain. Not finding his wife in the tent he walked out of the tent calling for her but to no avail. As panic began taking its reign, he began searching for her not finding her anywhere, soon after a few minutes he started dialing all the emergency🦺 rescue stations. The emergency team reached in about half an hour while Thomas was still calling out and searching for his wife as if he were lost in the loop of time.
Soon joined by the emergency team, they all began searching for her high and nigh for many hours into the night, when the finally found the cold and messed up body of Olivia Valor lying on the ground covered in dirt and blood🩸down the mountains. Seeing the dead body of his wife thomas could feel his world collapsing, the land under his feet being dragged away as he stood their soulless and lifeless. Unable to restrain himself, he gathered his beloved wife's body in his arms as he wept silently for a long time. Exhausted he too collapsed as his physical and mental being were tired to the point of death. The funeral was held and Thomas was stuck in the grief of his wife and unborn child for days.
Years passed by, Thoma's love for his wife was so great and yet the past can't be undone. The living must live while the dead are gone leaving behind pain for their loved ones. Thus, Thomas lived his normal life as others while carrying his share of pain. Sometimes he would wonder what his unborn child would have looked like if he was born. For, Thomas was a blonde man with grey eyes, sharp features and of high stature and his wife was a beauty as white as the snow with pitch black hair and eyes with high stature as well. They made a beautiful couple.
They both were the best campus couple popular in their university times while being childhood sweethearts all along. Many envied their relationship yet wished for one as beautiful as theirs. Their families were friends for generations. Every now and then Thomas wished for the old days to return only for the time to move forward. Surely, time is a cruel thing yet also a healer. Such is the agony of the living, left alone by their beloved.
Painful as it may be, he accepted it and continued his life. With the resolve of remembering his wife he thus, began developing orphanages and other facilities for the poor and needy, many benefitted from his charity work. He introduced various scholarships, trusts and funds all under the name of his departed beloved wife Olivia Valor and his unborn child.
Thomas hoped he could provide the orphans a family and a home, while also child to those parents who couldn't have any through adoption, for he knew the joy of having a family and the emptiness without one.
Nothing in the world can replace a loving family and so the joy of becoming a parent. These were the pains etched in his heart never to be forgotten for as long as he lived.