Chapter 67

  THE CONSUMMATION

  It was two months to Salamat's graduation and It was her wedding night. A day she had waited for, like it would never come. They had both anticipated this day but now it was crowded with fear in her mind...fear and anxiety.

  She had cried all through the day and she couldn't point out the reason for her tears. Maybe it was the fear of an unknown future as a married woman or the fact that she was leaving her parents.

  She was now going to be living with her husband, leaving her parents whom she had always shared shelter with.

  Things have changed just within a day and the fact that remained after her tears which were still evident in her beautifully decorated face was that she was now a married woman.

  She was no longer the little Salamat of yesterday. She was now someone's wife, not just anybody but Saleem, her ideal husband.