CHAPTER 12

All night long Kalina was only tortured. Her whole body felt numb, the fluid that had settled inside kept coming out.

Who knows how many times Zaki attacked her, he didn't even give his wife a break. Only when the clock showed half past four in the morning did the torture stop.

Kalina lay weakly on the bed without a single thread on her bare body. Red and purplish spots covered her white skin.

The cold air greeted her, and the sweat that flooded her felt like it was piercing her soul.

With empty eyes, pale lips, and dried tear tracks on her cheeks, Kanaya alias Kalina's condition was truly sad, like a woman who was a victim of rape by an irresponsible person.

Not only was she mentally wounded, but also physically wounded. The body had to endure the beatings, slaps, and kisses given by Zaki again.

The purplish color almost filled her body, besides the kiss marks, there was evidence of torture given by Zaki. The corners of her lips had dried blood from the strong slaps of the cruel man.

Kalina could faintly smell the aroma of burning tobacco. She who was still lying face down on the bed rolled his eyes towards the single sofa in the corner of the room.

"I will never have mercy on you, Kanaya. Whether you want to lose your memory or not, I will still... treat you the same!" Zaki firmly exhaled smoke from his mouth into the open air.

His words just now further confirmed the information that had been sought. Kalina was one hundred percent sure that Kanaya was determined to end her life because of her husband's actions.

Endless domestic violence would make any woman unable to survive.

Clear crystals slid without a gap from the corner of the eye, how arrogant Zaki was with a dominant aura emanating.

"You should have died then. Why did you have to wake up again? What are you going to do? Are you willing to accept this from me again?"

"Oh, so you're not willing to leave this habit, huh?" he quipped heartlessly.

Kalina, who had only heard and only now felt it, was truly heartbroken. She cried, not for herself who had received inappropriate treatment, but for Kanaya.

How could she survive for four years? Kalina thought imagining the hellish days of a Kanaya.

The pair of clear blue lensed beads slowly closed. Kalina cried silently, not caring about Zaki's existence anymore.

For her, the man was a monster who had tortured Kanaya without feeling. Instantly, both of her hands squeezed the blanket as hard as they could to hold back their annoyance.

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It turned out that what she thought that night did not end there. The following nights Kalina still had to serve Zaki's perverted lust.

Zaki continued to attack her mercilessly, like an animal without feelings. The torture that was given as the days passed, actually got worse.

Now the face was also the target of the punch, one of the beautiful eyes had to be decorated with a purple color and even swollen.

Kalina cried under the shower, letting the cold water hit her. The physical pain from the pouring water was not felt, her heart was more sore than that.

"Kanaya... Kanaya... Kanaya," she called out the name of the owner of the body.

"Is this the reason you ended your life twice, Kanaya?" Kalina continued, still thinking the same thing.

"Did... did you hide it from your parents? Why did you have to keep it to yourself?"

"So it's true, what did you write in the diary if Zaki was rude? Did you hold it in for four years?"

"What torture did he continue to do? Was it like this or was there something else?"

Kalina rambled, accompanied by water pouring over her head mixed with tears. Just living someone else's life had tortured her, what about Kanaya? Thoughts about how miserable that woman's life was wandering in her head, returning.

There was no longer any jealousy when she first came to Kanaya's residence. Now everything was the opposite, dark clouds came to her every time and she cried over them.

"There's nothing I can do but... accept this fate," said Kalina, closing her eyes tightly.

Somehow, when Kalina opened her eyes she found herself in bed.

As far as she could remember she was in the bathroom, trying to erase Zaki's traces in her body. Every day being attacked, plus endless torture gave her hell on earth.

Her whole body was numb, Kalina couldn't feel anything. Her heart was truly dead, she was alive, only because she was still breathing.

"So troublesome, why did you have to faint in the bathroom? Do you want to make me an irresponsible husband anymore, letting his wife die in the bathroom?"

"If you want to die... just die outside! Do you want to keep troubling me? The first time you tried to slit that damn wrist... do you know what Mr. Airuz said?"

"He thought I was a useless and rotten man, his anger peaked when you attempted suicide for the second time. Do you want to die that badly?" Zaki snorted roughly, folding his arms across his chest, and sitting on the sofa near the bed.

His legs were folded, like a ruler. "Weren't you almost able to realize it that day? Why didn't you just die? Why did you have to wake up again?"

Zaki's chatter continued to rain invisible arrows right on target into her heart. The pain was probably the most appropriate way to describe how mentally damaged Kanaya was.

Kalina was only lost in her body and couldn't do anything. What if she had experienced that sad thing directly? She would prefer to die than have to live with a crazy monster like Zaki.

"Are you done talking? Even if you tell me until you foam... I don't remember at all."

"Because this isn't my life," Kalina continued to think to herself.

"I don't care what happened in the past, but now… I won't let it happen," Kalina continued astonishingly.

Zaki gasped, getting up from his seat to see more clearly what expression his wife was emitting.

How surprised he was when he found Kanaya's expression had completely changed. There was no fear that he often felt after they had sex. Now her eyes showed determination, like a predator ready to hunt its prey.

Feeling someone watching closely, the blue eyeballs rolled. The two stared at each other, Zaki froze in place, in disbelief.

Kanaya's figure this time was very different, there was no fragility whatsoever on her beautiful face.

"I won't let you continue to torture this body to death. I warn you!"

"Starting today, enjoy the freedom that you still… can get."

Seriousness and determination radiated strongly, somehow Zaki didn't respond to anything and could only remain silent.

Kanaya radiated a dark aura and tended towards dark. The cold expression on his face also showed how he was not playing around with his words. Witnessing Zaki like that, Kalina grinned sharply. "I warned you," she continued and closed her eyes tightly.