Sentence prompt challenge winner.

Error by  bleedingpenwriter

The shopping bags fell from his hands, the contents rolling on the floor as he watched his wife breathing heavily and lying supine in a pool of blood. He turned to his daughter sitting on the couch watching TV.

"Emily, what happened?" He asked but didn't get a reply, she continued staring at the TV.

He turned back to his dying wife, tears running down his face. "Honey, what happened?"

He'd been gone for ten minutes, only ten minutes.

" I--I--" his wife stuttered, her face was pale, her eyes had blood stains in them and she choked up blood.

"Quick Emily!" He shouted "call 911"

Emily's eyes finally left the TV, she turned towards him slowly and walked towards the dying woman on the floor, sat on her abdomen and placed her hands around her throat.

"Oh my God!" He exclaimed, pushing her off his wife and watched her struggle for air before going limp as her eyes closed and her face lost colour.

His bloodshot eyes turned to the little girl standing above her mother, his eyes trailed down to her fingers that were wrung together and they momentarily widened as he saw her hands and clothes covered in dried blood. He looked around the untidy living room and his breath got caught in his throat when he sighted the bloodied knife few feet away from Ann.

In a frenzied state of mind, he hurried to the kitchen, got a towel and began wiping all the furnitures, his fingers trembled and his heart beat wildly against his chest. He took the knife and rubbed his fingers repeatedly on it, dragged his daughter to the bathroom, gave a quick bath and sat down in the living room, —the irony — staring down at the lifeless body if the woman he loved.

He finally looked up at the emotionless face of his ten year old daughter and got out his phone, locked his eyes with hers as he dialed 911.

"You didn't do this Emily," he said to his daughter " you didn't do this."

"911, what is your emergency? " The robotic voice at the other end answered.

With his eyes still locked with hers, he spoke. "I killed my wife."

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