A month.

Seeing Elena like that, Gaarshil felt pain as well. However, his eyes had turned determined as he walked towards Elena and kneeled.

Elena turned to Gaarshil and looked at him with tear-filled eyes before uttering, "why?"

"Why didn't you understand my stubbornness when I was holding Linci after she was born?" Elena's voice was filled with pain, anger, and disappointment in her husband.

Gaarshil kneeled and dropped his head as his eyes also dropped tears. He regretted and loathed himself now, but...past can't be changed.

So now, he wanted to be punished. He wanted punishment! 

He himself felt that he deserved to be punished. As such, he kneeled like that and spoke in a hoarse voice, "Elena...Linci..., I am sorry."

Elena wiped her tears as she sighed and turned to look at her daughter.

Linci saw her mother looking at her and said to her softly, "I...need you but not him."