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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