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Chapter 17

“No lover leaves a rose garden without blood on their hands”

Mitch Nihilist

“zeynep!”

it was a noun, a verb, and an exclamation all at once.

I looked away, unable to face him, unable to look at the pained expression on Yusuf's Face.

“And there you were planning to drive all the way to India to see her,” Ibrahim chuckled. “Looks like you've saved a trip!”

“You’re my dad’s wife?” yusuf’s voice conveyed every emotion he must have been feeling; shock, pain, disappointment, and confusion.

“You’re the one who married my father?” He glared at Ibrahim before turning back to look at me. “And you’re sleeping with him?”

“Let me leave you two lovebirds to catch up,” Ibrahim sniggered, putting on his shirt. “I’m sure you have a lot to ‘talk’ about. And apologies, dear brother. I couldn’t deliver all those letters you sent to her, for obvious reasons.”

“Was this why you had me come home before dad ? So I would see you with her?”

“Like I said
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