CHAPTER 24

  Alexa lay motionless staring at the woman in black clothes. Her eyes slowly started dripping tears but her expressions were inscrutable. Jack ran from inside. Though immobile with all his energy he fell to his knees and pleaded the old woman. "Please do not curse my daughter. She is innocent and unsullied, like an Angel. Alexa had so much to suffer in her life. She had lost her mother when she was hardly four and was tormented to hell by her step mother and siblings." Jack pleaded with folded hands. "Please take back your words and transfer your curse to me. I am already a dying man. I can be tortured as much as you want. I was the one who stopped Alexa from getting engaged to James. Please forgive her."