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Malik can't believe his ears. It seems that she has misinterpreted his silence because she starts to fold and refold her hands and begin to sigh, doubting what she has said. " You want to leave, Keith?" He asks. " You don't think it's a good idea?""What do you mean? " He moves closer to her. " Remember when I was mad at you because you were choosing not to leave him? If anything, I am proud of you that you have chosen to take this bold decision. "She nods and he notices how dry her voice sounds and how shaken she is. Poor Edna. She has gone through many terrible things and the last one was the worst of them all. What would have happened if he wasn't in town? What would have happened if he chose to travel?He doesn't want to think about what the consequences would have been. She would have been cold dead in a pool of her own blood and he knows that nothing would have happened to his brother. His father would probably bribe through it and it would be ruled as suicide. She is cryi
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Edna is shaking like a fish that has been thrown out of the comfort of the waters. She walks right into the company with a copy of the divorce papers sealed in a brown envelope. She had a dream last night and it's the most terrifying yet. In her dream, it was exactly like this. She was heading to her father-in-law's office and when she handed him the divorce papers, he took them. He took it and looked over it before tearing it into pieces. The doors flung open and the men took her away even though she tried to scream her way out of their grip. They took her to this basement and had her chained like a dog. Keith came through and did several unspeakable things to her and she is still shivering from remembering it. It was a very vivid and terrible dream. She tries to keep a straight face as she walks by employees who won't stop staring at her. She hasn't been to work for some time now and she knows that rumors must have been flying around. She doesn't care about what they think th
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Edna goes back to Malik's house with her head feeling like it's housing a thousand monsters that have separated themselves into two parts and are now having a war. The headache, the thoughts, it's all making her lose her mind. After she watched Keith order Kim away, she stood there with confusion on her face as she thought of what to do. Keith molested Kim and even though Kim didn't make an allegation- not that Mister Jackson would let it go anywhere, but it's just insensitive for Mister Jackson to cover up for him and make her work for him too. Edna drives back home with a tense feeling in her head. When she came, she was more disturbed by the fact that she might not be allowed to leave, but now she is dead worried for Kim, she doesn't know what that monster would do to her. Malik isn't at the office, he has some meetings to attend. She knows that he told her that he won't be around much and she should text him if she needs anything or calls if it's an EMERGENCY. She is sitting
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Mary starts humming a song and she glances up at Edna. Edna is just sitting there with a sad expression on her face. " Won't you like to help me?" Mary asks. Edna is startled that she jumps up from her seat and takes the knife that Mary is handing to her. She adjusts her arms and looks down at the half-chopped spring onions, she has never been more clueless. Maybe it's just anxiety. "Um, how would you like me to chop them?" She asks. " However you want to do them. " Mary is by the cooker. She is lighting it and placing a pan over the blue flames.Edna flexes her fingers a bit and picks back the knife. She arranges the onions again and slowly starts to chop them. It takes her back home to when she cooked with her mum while her father was working in his shop. Her brother was away in his mechanic workshop and so it used to be only them. Her mother would tell her romantic stories of how she met her husband and Edna would listen with a smile on her face. She used to think that she
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Edna lays on her bed with a piece of tissue crumbled in her fingers. She has been staring into the emptiness in front of her for a long time and that's been her behavior for some days now. From the very moment, Malik told her that Keith wasn't ready to let her go, that was the beginning of her horror. Why? What does he still want from her? He has told her, times without number, that he hates her and would kill her if he has the chance so what she doesn't understand is what he still wants from her.Maybe he just wants her to be his forever, but the thing is that she can't even think of spending the rest of her life as his wife. She rolls over and lays on her tummy, pain shoots up from her tummy straight to her head, and she winches. She hasn't eaten for days, and she doesn't have an appetite, but she has been careful so that Malik and Mary won't find out. How can she eat knowing that Keith is doing everything in his power to make sure that she remains with him? Is she going to be
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Edna starts at the lady for so long that she starts to get uncomfortable. She looks behind her, maybe there is something there, but nothing. She waves her hand in front of her face, but Edna isn't responding. "Hello?" She stares at Edna. " Ma'am, are you okay?"" He is not my husband. " Edna simply says. "What?" " He is not my husband ." Edna raises her voice in a bid for the lady to hear her this time around. It's a wrong move as Emily interprets it to be her being hostile. "I'm sorry. " She pulls her laptop closer to herself. " He didn't say he was your husband, I was the only one who assumed. "" Well, he is not. " Edna stands. She doesn't know why, but she is a bit offended that the lady thinks she is married to Malik. *****After the lady leaves, Edna doesn't go back to brooding about herself. She is now burdened with sorting the clothes that have been bought for her. Her wardrobe is too small and the result is that the whole room is covered in clothes and she still hasn'
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Mister Jackson is already in the sitting room waiting for them. He is reading through a newspaper as he waits. Edna and Malik walk in and he smiles. He shakes hands with his son and hugs Edna with a happy expression on his face. Edna is not expecting this at all. The main reason why she didn't want to come is that she thought that the hostility towards her would be overwhelming. Why is Mister Jackson being so friendly? Why is Keith behaving as if he wants her?Malik pulls out a chair for her and she sits. He does the same too and just as they settle down, Keith stumps into the room. There is something angry and mean about his walking and the way he briefly greets his father before he loudly pulls a chair to sit down. Edna ignores him, pretending to be more interested in the silverware that is before her than her tantrum-throwing husband. Malik is right beside her and she feels the warmth of his hand on her knee as he gives it a light squeeze. Her face is down but she smiles, sh
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Edna is sitting down at one of the tables closest to the window and she watches as tiny droplets of water roll on the glass and tickles down till it disappears. She does that for so long that by the time she looks up at Malik again, he has drunk almost half of his coffee and she is yet to even take a sip of hers. She prefers to keep her fingers around the cup and even though it burned to some extent, the stinging feeling is gone now and it's just warmth to her fingers now. She doesn't even realize that she has this gloom on her face or how much she is just drifting off in her thoughts until Malik says something. " Is something wrong with the coffee, Edna?" He lightly touches her finger to get her attention. " It has lots of creams, just the way you like it. "Yes, she has noticed that he knows that about her. He knows the littlest details about her and that's not just something he picked up from the few days that she has been seeking asylum in his house. He knows her favorite fla
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