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Many thoughts are going through her mind as she places the phone over her ear. Has her brother died or has anyone been in an accident? Are her brother's kids fine? What's going on?She tries to tell herself that everything is fine as she places the phone over her ear, but it's not just working, her instincts refuse to accept it. " Edna, how are you?" It's her mum's voice. It's not giving away too many emotions. She doesn't sound excited or sorrowful so she can't tell which emotion she is trying to give off, she can't tell if this is a good call or a bad one. " Mum, is everything okay? " She takes the bull by the horns. Her anxiety is going to kill her. " What's the problem?"" Edna, I have big news for you. " Her mother says. " I can't talk like this, can we do a video call? ""Okay, mum. I will get dressed and get my laptop too. " Edna says. Her mum ends the call and Edna quickly gets the towel off her and puts a shirt on, with bum shorts. Water is still dripping from her wet h
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After a few days, it has all been finalized. Malik has been signed off as the new owner of Eros oil and gas company and a ceremony was even performed. There was a party of course, but Edna is careful enough not to have too much to drink. Not because she will get too drunk and have sex with Malik, but because she is going to throw up a lot and feel uncomfortable. Malik and Edna didn't talk about the sex they had, but they haven't had sex again since then. Malik is very respectful and doesn't let it go beyond a kiss and poor Edna is too scared to initiate anything. After a very hectic day, Malik suggests that Edna goes shopping at a nearby fashion shop and he is so tired that he goes to bed with the sun still high in the sky. He finds himself in this clubhouse. There are different kinds of men and woman there, most of them dancing or performing ungodly activities like having sex and doing drugs. Malik trots deeper into the crowd until he comes out at the other end. There is a hallw
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It has been over a week that Edna and Malik have been in Rome and it has been one of the best times of their lives and they have made memories here that they will not forget in a long time. They walk in each other's arms towards the boarding pass. It doesn't matter what they are going to find when they get back home, it was a great experience in Rome. This time around there is no mix-up, they are both going to be flying first class. They have been cleared and they proceed to sit like the others, waiting for their flight to be announced so that they can leave. Edna feels pressed, so she turns to Malik. "Hey, I have to go to the bathroom, really quick. " She lets go of his hand. "Okay. " He says. He sits back and watches her leave. She walks, with hands in the pockets of her coat as she goes to the bathroom area. He decides to do something that will take his mind busy till she gets back. He scrolls through the call log, lots of calls from his assistant, and even more from his
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Court day.Edna hardly slept the night before. She lays on her bed awake all night as she tries to imagine what's going to happen in the courtroom. There are going to be a lot of lies from Keith and his father, she knows this one for sure. She knows how manipulative those two men can be. This time around, they are not going to get away with it though. Edna has evidence of abuse against and even infidelity too so that means that he is going down. Malik drives her to court a few hours to court time and she is shaking so much in the car that he has to reach out to hold her hand. " You are going to be fine. " He assures her. " We have the best lawyers and a just cause. "" What if it doesn't work out?" Her voice laughs confidently. Malik chuckles and looks out of the window. " It's going to work out. " He states. " But if it doesn't, there is always another way. "She nods and wipes her hand over her face and looks carefully as Malik eases the car into the Court's parking lot. Ther
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***Throwback***It was on a rainy night. It has been just three months since she got married to Keith. She hasn't recovered from the shock and she cries every night after he forces himself on her. Mister Jackson always makes sure that she comes to the office, no matter how sick she gets and she works really hard because he would nag her if she doesn't.It's on one of those days that it starts to rain heavily in the late evening, just hours before she is supposed to go home. She waits for the rain to stop, but it doesn't and soon, the darkness of night and the gloominess of the clouds grows together, making the night thicker. She doesn't know what to do, she doesn't know if she should spend the night here or shit drive herself home. It's cold in the office and without a warm bed so she decides that it's better to go through the trouble of driving back home than to spend the night here. She gets into her car, sets her bags down beside her, and starts to drive back home. Because it
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Edna feels like she is a nightmare right now and she desperately wants it to come to an end. She regrets her life, she regrets the circumstances that made her say yes to marrying Keith and she regrets even going to the same school as Keith. She hates that her brother was so ill and she had to do anything to keep him alive. She hates the fact that the one person in the world who tells her that he has her on a regular basis wants to keep her married to himself for a long time. She hates that her freedom is so close that she can smell it but that she can't reach out to take it. She hates that her life is going back to what it used to be even though she has tried her best to run away from her past. She hates herself because she is going to be the one to walk up to Malik and tell him that she doesn't want to leave her abusive husband anymore. She wishes that God would strike her dead right now and end her miserable life. Edna looks at the pictures in her hands. They are copies, not
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Malik lays on his bed with his hands under his head. He is staring at the ceiling with cluelessness in his eyes. His thoughts are random and haphazard, he is almost on the verge of running crazy right now. He adds a pillow under his head but he still doesn't feel comfortable. How can he get any comfort when what happened in court keeps coming back to his mind? He grabs his phone, he hasn't looked through it for days now and she knows that it might be flooding with texts from his workplace and his father too. His father doesn't care for him, it's true, but his father knows that he needs him to run the company successfully so he is probably trying to get him to go back to work easily. A knock on his door and he turns to it. " Come in, Mary. " He answers. Mary walks in with a cup of tea in her hand and she sighs sadly before walking over him with the cup in her hand. She doesn't set it down as he expects her to, instead she looks at the cup and then at him, she expects him to tak
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The past week has been the worst of Edna's life. She has cried her soul out of her body and she even thought of killing herself. Now she is sitting in front of the mirror after a bath and looks at herself in the mirror. She looks strange, nothing like herself. She used to be miserable, it's totally normal, but it's so different this time around. Her eyes are so red from crying that that's how they have been for so long now. She is running a temperature and her head seems to want to split into two with an ax. She grabs her face cream and squirts some of it on her hand and rubs it into smoothness. She starts to slowly apply it over her face in circular motion. She is staring into her reflection and waiting for the gray gloominess to go away magically with the aid of the cream if it doesn't happen. All she gets is this extra oiliness on her face that outlines all the sadness on her face, her dark spots from sleepless nights, and the impact of Keith's blows. She clenches her teeth
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