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

"She told me you re her husband..." Mujaheed immediately cut him off.

"Yes, I'm her husband. What happened? What s wrong with her?" He asked again, taking a brisk look at Fareeda that wasn t glancing his way.

"Um..." He began and let her words trailed off, "I think someone intentionally or unintentionally drugged her with a sexual arousal pill and in that case, overdosed it. She s having the lower abdominal pain because she couldn t satisfy her desires and that s why with each day, it keeps on getting even more excruciating. There s only one way for her to get better now, and had it been she wasn't married, I would ve advised her to do so. But since she s married already..."

Chapter 48 30: Hospitalized