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Helpless- Leah and Artaxerxes

She is going to die. She's going to die and there is nothing I can do about it. The thought stabbed into his heart repeatedly like a knife.

He thought of her gentle smile, her beauty, her intelligence, the way it had felt to hold her in his arms.

And now she would die. As soon as her baby was born... her life would end.

He fell to his knees, weeping like a child, full of despair and helpless anger.

"What good is it?" He growled,

" What good is being king if I cannot even protect the ones I love?"

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