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 heard him heaved a sigh and she could imagine his shoulders slumping in defeat, "I will understand, what matters is you even though I've missed you terribly, Fareeda." They got to a heated conversation, but Fareeda knew no matter how much she missed him, she wouldn t have to make any mistake that will provoke Alhaji any further. They spoke for hours, and from that moment, they were always together on the phone, always on a video call, talking and laughing that Fareeda knew for sure that she would have to end her life if she didn't get married to Adam. He was the man she had ever loved and would forever love in her life.</p>

Chapter 16 11: Unexpected Nikkah