Chapter 28: Sara Ajmal

I thought it would take him a lot more to look at me, never mind talk to me again, but it looked like I was wrong when he suddenly walked into my bedroom. He looked…completely drained, an expression I knew all too well. Ashar Hussain was not somebody to be ignored at all, more fool them, whoever it was. He wasn't somebody to be taken lightly either. Whatever it was she was putting him through behind closed doors I hope it was worth it for him to ignore me all this time for her. We just looked at each other before he sat down on my bed and just stared at the floor. "I see how happy she's made you, just like when you were first ordered to marry her" I teased, just like I always used to do with him. "Don't think that you could talk casually with me as if you didn't try to wreck my marriage and almost succeeded" "It was for your own good and you know it" I couldn't help but snap at him "Look how miserable you are" "Because of you! I'm living in misery every single day because of what you animals did to my wife! And because of you did, she no longer sees me as a man! A husband who should have protected his wife! You all took that from me and now her mere glance at me left me feeling humiliated every single day! I'm nothing at all to the first woman that I fell in love with!" "Just like how you made me feel like nothing at all even though we spent every single day together since we could walk" I replied softly, completely lost in our childhood memories. 

 "This is all your fault, because of you I have lost my pride and dignity, everybody at work ridicules me because of you and finds me incompetent even there as well. Now Khirad had just been promoted to a higher position than me in my father's own company, clients love her and praise her…as they should for her hard work. Our friends no longer want anything to do with me so I'm constantly stuck in the home with my daughter and wife who I could barely look at. All because of that stupid stunt you decided to pull" At this point, I had really had enough of his little self-pity rant, it was like that witch had completely sucked out the mighty person he used to be and used it for herself. What the hell was it about this woman who made it her life mission to make me and her husband miserable when we could be happy together? Why couldn't she let him go if all she did was walk over him? And why couldn't he look at me to save him from her? Why couldn't he look at me the way he looked at her since we spent way more years together than they ever have or ever will. And i really couldn't take the fact that Ashar, despite everything was such a sensitive person that i had to end up sweet-talk him into everything instead of shaking sense back into him. 

 So I lost it. Again. I couldn't keep my composure when we finally had the chance to be alone and repair our relationship this idiot really wanted to just blame me for all of his problems. So I couldn't help myself as I lunged towards him…and I just grabbed him by his collar…and i just held him…just as Khirad of all people opened the door.