Chapter 38

Why? The question was, why... Why her heart was beating like a drum. Why she felt her heart breaking into pieces... Why was she feeling the tears accumulating within her eyes. Why his statement was hurting her. Hurting her so much that she was able to feel the pain in her heart. Was he betraying her? She wasn't in love but still it pained her. She was forced in the marriage but still it pained her. She hadn't accepted this marriage but still it pained her. Maybe she had began to.... She brushed off the thought. He was cheating on her with Farah. A lone tear escaped her eye as she sat alone in her room. She cleared the tear as soon as it fell. Prostitutes like her had no share on love. Non-virgin unmarried women like her did not deserve to get married. Tainted women like her were only supposed to quench the thirst of the sexual arousals of men. She had been taught this whole life. Her whole life these words were being fed to her. The partial reason she had not and would not accept this