Chapter 23

After bidding farewell to mother and father, I and Desmond sat in the car and left. I wiped my tears and looked out of the window. My whole being is filled with terror. The dread is eating me up. I shivered at thought of might happen to me. On the other hand, I am so perplexed. Why is Desmond making things that complicated? He can be finally be freed from this marriage. He didn't even show a single shed of sorrow. I need to know. Putting my fright aside, I took a deep breath and began to say,
"Why... do you let me go in the first place? If you want to humiliate me, you should have done this using other ways. Not, by doing all this... Not by degrading me in everyone's eyes... What do you want? Can't you liberate me from this hell? I gave you a chance to threw away a person weak as me out of your life, you should have let our divorce happen and part our ways rather than starting another fire of hate and heartbreak. " I spoke in low broken voice. This is probably the longest sentence I have told him. I felt his gaze on me. I shut my eyes, not wanting to feel that look, which made me so ashamed in front of everyone, not wanting to feel the tingling sensation of his touch which gave me immense dread in me.
"This will be a lesson for you. That you can't leave me, unless I said so and yeah, I can't extricate you.", that was his only reply.