“Deal me in,” agreed Roger, not a hint of doubt in his voice now.
But the decisiveness hadn’t come easy. For days, he had been agonising over what to do. He had pondered over his childhood, his elite education, his career as a financier, and his family. Most of all, his family. His lovely, and currently very nervous, wife and his two remarkable sons, still just 4 and 8.
Everything in his life spelt respectability. And here he was considering someone’s murder.
He wasn’t preoccupied with being caught (though that played on his mind too). It was karma that worried him. He knew could get away with murder, but could he really get away with sin. For the first time in his life, he found himself terrified of God.
Then his 4-year-old told him about his innocent day at school and just like that his decision was made.
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