The Rejected Bride
“This will cover the rest of the arrangements.”
Hassan — I almost laughed. He only ever called himself Daniel around us because he wanted to sound like all this American men,and made us call him abbu a name that was supposed to make us believe he was some sort of father figure. But the truth was, Hassan or Daniel had never been a father to me.
I backed away from the doorway, my breath coming in shallow gasps. My hands trembled as I made my way back upstairs, my mind spinning. He was selling me?. I wasn’t even worth a conversation. I was a transaction, an object to be bargained over.