Chapter 41

I will get dressed in the bathroom. I stared at my reflection after getting dressed. The girl who stared back at me–was different from Fatima who is overflowing with anger at the man who is now my husband.

I gasped out loud.

I didn’t realize my eyes were already watering. I tightly closed my eyes. I was in love with Kier. That was the plain truth and it looked like I was going to stay–in my married life with Kier. But how do I do that? Our marriage is fake.

I wiped away my tears. I held my chest. I could feel my heart beating fast. I'm nervous. I remember Kier who was outside the bathroom.

What would happen to me now? Now that I am positive that I love him, I will find it even harder to get along with him. I shouldn’t expect him to love me either. Whatever we have now is just the result of a situation we both want to escape.

Everything was a pretense, nothing more, nothing less. I exhaled heavily. I would keep everything to myself. Kier shouldn’t know how I really feel. He shouldn