CHAPTER 41

Martin rested for a while but his mind and soul was just thinking on his wife Ruth. He had grown to love her unconditionally. She was the image of his soul. It was accepted to love and to fall in love but it was not accepted to love to such extents which felt weird. 

Though  many times he had tried but he had never had the thought of being a lawyer too. He heard footsteps of someone approaching his matrimonial room. He immediately retired to his bed to sleep pretending that nothing had happened. His wife arrived at the room filled with lots of sadness .

She did not want to have a conversation with anyone . It seemed that everything she had experienced at cell of hell was worse than what she had expected. She turned towards the other side of the bed and slept. 

Martin slowly woke up and looked at her. Ruth had already felt him. Ruth woke up too and looked at him filled with lots of sadness. 

" What has happened to you at the cell of hell?" Asked Martin filled with lots of curiosity.

" Nothing Martin. Just go to sleep my dear . You are already my husband and there is nothing I can do about it. I mean.....that is exactly how husband and wife should live. Sometimes a husband needs to punish his wife if he sees that the wife is in the wrong tract. I do not blame you for anything my husband. All I know is that I totally need to rest right now" said Ruth in a pellucid voice. 

Martin tried to kiss her but Ruth resisted. He remembered what had happened the last time that he tried to force himself on Ruth after he had come back from the cell of hell. 

" I am contented if you do not have any confidence in me. Please forgive me for being so hard on you"

" Is that why your wife left?"

" What are you talking about?"

" Did your wife leave you because of your harshness? Are you the one who pronounced the verdict that your wife should be kept at the cell of hell? Then your wife could not ensure it and decided to go to the cell of hell with your little son" Asked Ruth who stood and went towards the window. 

She was afraid that Martin might try to beat her up again. Tear welled in her eyes as she kept looking at Martin. Martin tried to console her as she resisted.

" Tell me the truth Martin. What is the truth behind that? What is really the truth? What did your wife do to you that made you subject her to that kind of punishment? What about that little child? They told me that her name was Melissa and your son's name was Branton. What ! Will you do that to me someday? " Said Ruth angrily. 

" Wait! Where are all this questions coming from? I do not understand you at all. What has happened to you Ruth? Why do you think that I sent my wife to the cell of hell?"

" It's what you did. You sent them there. Why are you denying the whole truth Martin. Anyway, it's pointless talking to you about this matter since you will never tell me the whole truth. I am so dissapointed in you. You are a pain in my neck. I hate you for always being the worst kind of person. Let me just sleep" said Ruth who immediately went to bed. 

She did not want to argue with Martin anymore. Martin left to the study . As I had said before, it was his usual before whenever he felt down. He called on Lady Akeshia. He always confused to her whenever he felt that he needed a matter that needed someone to have a conversation with. 

" Martin! Thanks for calling me up. It truly shows how much you so trust in me. I am aware of everything that has happened. I am aware that your wife Ruth went to the cell of hell again. Please forgive her for that . You frustruated her. You shouldn't have done that . Anyway, I hope that everything will ve fine" said Lady Akeshia who hugged Martin so passionately. 

" It not that. She seems to have been told the whole truth of what happened to Melisa at the cell of hell. I can admitted everything. They might make her leave the marriage. They might make her leave me and with that I will feel like the worst person on earth. But I won't feel that anymore. She should understand that once in a while women have to be taught how to live like a wife. It is a shame that Melisa decided to go to the cell of hell accompany by my dear son. My poor son, I do not even know what has really become of him. But I really hope soon everything will be revealed" said Martin crying. 

" You don't have to tell her the truth if you do not really want to. She will truly understand soneday why you were so much angry with your wife that made you to make such decision towards her. People say that you were inhuman but I do believe that it was law of the clan and laws of the clan are not meant to be broken" said Lady Akeshia. 

Haggai who had been listening to the conversation left angrily . He went straight to the closer gates since he knew that they could be someone there or something bad might happen outside yet he was the strong warrior. He would take all the blame. 

HAGGAI'S POV. 

Listening to your conversation Mr. Martin is like listening to a useless garbage dumb. You will pay for everything that you did to the poor Melisa. She was a nice person and did not really deserve anything like this. For that I will hate you forever till I finally take revenge on you .

Ruth who has been sitter by the window watched Haggai pass then smiled. 

MARRIED AT SIXTEEN.