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,

burst out,

it! That's not going to

his protective

"Of course not.

all, you promised me we still

to admit, Joseph's plan was almost

the garbage bins containing Ebola medical waste, much

could smuggle out two children. The truck would stop midway, where humanitarian workers would take over and

two children remained-a brother and sister. The

them away, Joseph was in high spirits. He looked

"Thank you, Zoey."

I just held

almost

dance, for us. Joseph prepared a meal that could almost be called a feast, and

began putting on

handed me a marker and asked

write your names on

I exchanged a glance, surprised, but we

a moment and added beneath my

you grow

Joseph wrote:

reunite with

I followed with:

hope the war

He added:

hope we meet again in the

and by the time we

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

remember you forever and

You're our

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