Chapter 99

I dry the tears away. I will not cry ever again because of him. He made me cry enough when he was alive. I cannot let him make me cry, even in his arms. I cannot beat myself up over how or why I killed him. If I had not done it, he would have been the one to kill me, and he would not have felt any remorse for doing it.

It's over. The battle is over now. It is time to open a new chapter, because life cannot go back to normal no matter what.

"I am better now. Thank you so much." I answer him with a faint smile. I am not a murderer, and I will never be. I know this guilt will not fade away in a night, but it will soon. Someday and somehow. For all the reasons that I had to do what I did, I know I will be fine in due time. "Thank you, Deep," I say to this man that God brought to me as a guardian.

Why do we seem to have so many coincidences? Like how we met, and then we happened to have a common enemy? What would have happened to me in Kisumu if he had not come to my re