Chapter 58: No luck in the city

Ansari's pov.

True, the wounds on some people were still healing and the town was in ruin. That should be action enough but I could feel the call of war in my soul. It was beckoning to me. It called me, it pulled at my spirit and all I wanted was to leap at a monster's throat and tear it to shreds.

I turned to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

“You should go to your wife. Tell her the truth, I can't have her hoping for something that is not true.” I said sadly. It had been the case with me. Waiting on my father in front of our cabin, waiting and pleading for him to come home. But he did not.

I had hoped those robbers would spare my family but they had not either.

Hope was nothing but a facade. A stupid little blue scam.

He looked at me with Sad eyes and nodded. “She's pregnant.”

His words echoed in my head and I felt for him even more. But he was a man, and a man was a warrior, a man was a hero, and a man is always a living sacrifice for his family.

I hugged him tightly and he b