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.

very least, in the worst-case

burst out,

it! That's not going

his protective suit, I gently touched

"Of course not.

we still have to go see my

to admit, Joseph's plan was

bins containing Ebola medical waste, much less suspect

out two children. The truck would stop midway, where humanitarian workers would take over and transfer them to

half a month, only the last two children remained-a brother and sister. The boy was named Ray, and his sister,

Joseph was

"Thank you, Zoey."

didn't respond. I just

seemed so close we could almost taste it. We

Joseph prepared a meal that could almost be called a feast, and I

siblings began putting on their protective

a

your

a glance, surprised,

thought for a moment and added beneath my

hope you

Joseph wrote:

reunite with

I followed with:

hope the war

He added:

we meet

and by the

around us, their muffled

you

you! You're

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