The Mayor's Second Wife (Love Me Later)

y handed the official letter to him, so you are required to pack up and vacate your locker, hand the locker

shed the ground would open up and swallow her at that moment if that

r like his own. Or part of his own. It wasn't because of anything she did, rather, he detested everything she was. A gi

wards her brother. He showered him with everything that the lit

was something, some concrete reason that would be good enough, but as hard as she tried, she came up with absolutely no

ike she was particularly famous or hard to pass, but the science teacher who has first come in, Mr

orward to it, but now, she couldn't help the small pang of resentment she felt for Mrs. Margaret. It was

Margaret said,

, ma

e? You didn't leav

spelt impending doom and her hear

your leave and left just

il she went to the principal's office and found out it was n

from the library to read ahead of the finals she had in three months.

re into smaller pieces, and no positive thing she s

uilt for herself by working day and night, than by letting the deep sadness she felt put her down. She wasn't easy to take out, b

elder sister around too, but she had gone missing a year back. They had not given up on finding her, although her fath

Her father was sitting on the couch, watching some blurred documentary

said, coming c

ay from the TV, just kept his focus

e something

e morphed into a sneer, a

pite his attitude. The school was more important to h

p-mouthed enough to face me when I know you are b

in her eyes. Hearing their voices, her mother, a middle-aged woman who carried mo

k so early? Did

ool. He processed my leave fro

se do you have to take part in the dec

tion. You only ever catered for Pa

, his eyes boring into her. She lowered her head. Regardless of how

married. Your bride price should be enough to settle the expenses for Paul'

nnifer said, finding it hard to control the bitterness she felt. Of all thin

rew some documents at her feet, documents on which he had