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[ Adeline ]

A momentary silence prevailed in the air. His eyes shifted from me to the star studded sky and I immediately felt regretted as I could see flash of sadness on his handsome face. He looked more like an innocent child who had been deprived of love.

"It's fine if you don't want to answer it. I am sorry for even asking such personal and touchy question." I said in an apologetic tone when I didn't receive any reponse from him.

"I was sent in the same summer to stay with my grandparents because I could understand the tension between my parents. How they used to argue during nights and sometimes-" He again paused.

His fists and jaws were clenched like he was restraining himself from punching something.

I was shocked when I comprehended his half sentence.

"Arnold used to hit her?" I asked in disbelief.

"It wasn't new. He was seeing another woman probably Linda at that time and somehow my mother got a whiff of his affair. She thought she could hide it from me, her bruises under her
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