Chapter 21

A flummox with an extreme abhorrence covers her black doe eyes, which create a moistness in them. Gnashing her teeth, she glared at his face which slightly tilts due to her solid smack on his cheek. For a moment the sound of the slap ricochet in a room and then only silence speak between both.

His angular eyebrows puckered on his empty façade in a bewildered, “She slaps me…!!!!...”, His ego hissed in a wrathful tone.

After a pause, Tara gasped with drenched eyes, “I know…”, she uttered taking a gap to wheeze, “I have… made a huge… blunder...”, a regret emerged on her face, “And… just my…Sorry… doesn’t fix anything…but…”, she sobs and pulled her lips inside the mouth to control her howls, “What was that… You did to me…!!!...”, with tenderness in a tone, she screams, “You tried to exploit me … And that too…because just once…I criticize your singing by mistake!!!.... I didn’t say it intentionally, Ryan…”.

Suddenly a calmness emerged on Ryan's face, he turns his face and glanced at her wi