Chapter 19 / Part Two

"If you want my forgiveness, then turn back the clock, don't abandon me the day after the wedding and when the marriage was already more than consummated. You knew what you were doing and what would come upon me for what you did; yet all those beautiful memories you tell me to keep in mind for what I bestowed upon you something that is impossible for me to give, mattered little to you at the moment of causing me such great pain and despair that I knew well that death was the only thing left for me to do."

She kneels on the bed, seeking to superimpose me in height, to feel greater than me, her captor.

"You wouldn't even allow me to die, to cleanse my honor under my own rules, and I ended up being displayed in the square while everyone spoke against me. No Habbab Arslan, what you feel right now is nothing compared to what I felt that damn day. I felt like I was touching the sky that day and what you did was to cut my wings, leaving me with bloody stumps, damn you for every single thing