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“You better hurry and make your decision, Ameerah is going to be beheaded tomorrow.” With this, she walked away.

I watched her retreating figure wondering how I had been best friends with such a witch. How can she talk that lightly? She knew damn well that my children need their father but she wants me to leave.

Standing, my fingers went into my mouth. What would I do now? It was as if she was making me choose between the health of my children and Ameerah.

My heart thumped in my chest loudly, anyone could hear it from miles away. My thinking faculty had suddenly gone blank, I couldn't fathom anything.

What was I supposed to do now? What was I supposed to do?

Getting to my room, I saw my children playing in their nursery with the maid looking over them. Austin was the first to notice me, he stood and ran to me, wrapping his cute hands around my legs. Savannah and Scarlett came after.

Smiling to not make it obvious that I had been crying, I squatted to their level and brushed thei