I Saved My Life And Left My Child To Die (Femme Lounge Stories)

A story written by Femme Lounge contributor. Read below

I was in the kitchen trying to make a fast dinner after a long day, when I heard gunshots at my front door. I ran out through the back door, climed on the tap attached to the wall, jumped over the fence and hid in the bushy uncompleted building beside my house. 

I could still hear gunshots from where I hid, clearly, the robbers were in my house. I was trembling were I was and couldn’t think straight until I heard my three year old daughter screaming mummy from a distance. I had put her to..continue...

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