Price of Refuge

‘Price of Refuge’, the fifth volume in the fiction series ‘Hypocrisy & Reality’ furthers the journey of the protagonist into the world when he returns to his paternal relatives and finds to his dismay that his father is absolutely incapable of arranging a dwelling of his own. Also, he finds himself to be a mute subject to child abuse at the hands of none other than supposedly an elder cousin of his, the son of his so-called benefactors who provided refuge in their vacant house. That was the price paid by the child for the indolence and handicaps of an unworthy father for seeking shelter under the tutelage of so-called relatives. Not only this, his sisters were abused too one by one by the same elder cousin nonchalantly – a paedophile as he was. No refuge seemingly looking innocuous goes without some price to be paid either by self, spouse or one’s children.