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>"Fareeda..." He called timidly, afraid that she was asleep and he might wake her up. His heart stopped beating when he realized what had happened, when the reality of the situation hit him. When everything became clear to him as his brain was forced to believe the reality of the situation. No...</p>

<p>He heard as the door got banged open and Alhaji ran into the living room without his shoes on as he turned the lights on, but he didn't reach where Mujaheed was holding her when he slumped on the floor, his eyes fixed intently on her face. "I knew it, the moment I saw her missed call I knew that something terrible must ve happened to you, Fareeda." Alhaji broke the deadly silence and Mujaheed that felt as if he had no life in him turned to look at Alhaji with the coldest expression he had ever plastered on his face.</p>

Chapter 55 34: B