After the Last Tear: Rising from the Ashes of a Broken Marriage By Cassila K

Chapter 37

Chapter 37

My head felt like it was about to explode.

Reason and emotion were locked in a fierce battle, while the children silently watched our heated argument.

Despair filled their eyes. The youngest huddled together, their small hands tightly clasped, as if awaiting the final verdict of fate.

My heart softened in an instant.

They had already fought with all their might to escape hell-we couldn't send them back.

I took a deep breath, forcing myself to calm down, and said quietly:

"I'll help you.

But I won't just find someone to take them. I'll stay here and see them all safely out myself."

Joseph froze, then immediately shook his head.

"No, it's too dangerous!"

I stared back at him, my tone resolute.

"And what, leave you to face the danger alone?

If you don't agree, I'll go out there right now and tell them you're hiding Hutu children here."

He gritted his teeth and glared at me.

"...You! I should never have come to you!"

"Too late." I shrugged. "You've already dragged me into this."

Joseph turned away angrily, refusing to speak to me. I sighed, stepped closer, and

wrapped my arms around his neck, forcing him to look at me.

the worst-case scenario, we can die

immediately burst out,

it! That's not going

of his protective

"Of course not.

promised me we still have to go

had to admit, Joseph's plan was

want to touch the garbage bins containing Ebola

children. The truck would stop midway, where humanitarian workers

remained-a brother and sister.

the truck was to take them away, Joseph was in high spirits. He looked at me

"Thank you, Zoey."

I just held his

seemed so close we could almost taste it. We even celebrated

meal that could almost be called a feast, and I took many pictures of

fell, the siblings began putting

a marker and

you write your names on

and I exchanged a glance, surprised, but

thought for a moment and added beneath

hope you grow up

Joseph wrote:

hope you reunite with your

I followed with:

the

He added:

we meet again

suits with blessings, and by the

siblings threw their arms around us, their muffled voices coming from inside their

you forever and

you! You're

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