She could feel the pain slowly overcoming her soul. The agony, the grief, taking over all that she once thought was alive in her. She felt so empty that she was sure her whole body will echo if someone was to shake her. But she stood, rigid as though a hundred years old tree, clinging onto the only thing that made her alive; her eyeglasses. 

Through those glasses, she had seen things she had wished she could erase. She had hated the things she once loved, places she once cherished and the man she grew up to love. 

It didn’t matter who he was to her, his role in her life or even the title he possessed. She was going to take revenge, she was going to make him regret, she was going to make her father cry right before her eyes!

But what if he chose to add more pain to her aching wounds? The day he declared her married to a gateman, the strings left attaching her with him were forcefully cut off. And she was certain even if it would take her till eternity, so long as she stayed married to the gateman, her father would never know what happiness felt like!

Married To The Gateman

<p>She watched as he lifted one brow at her which meant he was listening and Fareeda wished she could smack his head. She looked away from his face for a few minutes and after she gulped down the lump in her throat, she turned back at him. "As you said, I'm going to apologize to Alhaji today, make sure you re going to keep your promise also."</p>

<p>He stared at her face longer than he used to, this was the first time he was seeing her in two months now. Since the day she had cried her eyes out in the hut he hadn t seen her or that annoying face of her boyfriend. What was wrong with her? Have they broken up? And now that he looked closely at her, her eyes had bags under them and she undoubtedly lost some weight. Had she been sick? He briskly looked at the place she had last parked her car and thought, he had forgotten the last time she drove her car.</p>

Chapter 14 10: She Pouts