Ultimatum

"How are you? " His fake caring voice echoed after some time and my eyes lifts on its own accord. After everything he did to me, he has the audacity to enquire about my wellbeing.

"She is fine." Before I answer him, my mother did rather sternly. She has always lacked kindness for him.

He clenches his jaw squeezing his eyes shut for some seconds and I know how hard he’s trying to stay calm.

The moment he opened his eyes they measured me from head to toe and then back to my face meeting my eyes. His burning stare heating my skin. How much he hates to see me with Rihan. But I tried to remain unaffected. I looked at the lying papers on the table. The one side of the blank space holds my signature which I did two days back. The other side is still empty. I kept staring at the empty space.

"Zara, come back home," he said with longingness.

Home?

Which home? That hell of a kind. Why? To punish me Force himself on me. Tie me up. My mind recalled all the bitter moment spend with him.

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