pte

ause if I open my mouth I

Fr

e for me was going to change life but I

upgrade his standard of living, he got

me almost everyday was al

en I heard him discussing the detail

lla setting, I saw myself in a white ball gown w

there is not always goi

nd in Disney. I

room, only my father and his two brothers

out it but I

andful of witnesses who seemed to

hing, especially my father, who smile

es shut, not only because I didn't want to see the smug grin on my husband's face

fall, I tightened them more to see if I could find the fac

ve at the sight of this unholy matrimon

uld catch a glimpse of either of my brothers o

r my new husband had been chauffeured in, almost my entire neighborho

ke the white elephant it was, an oddi

rs worse, in i

agen Santana cars, whic

ered out about what I consider

h their own eyes if what t

ho lived in the flat opposite ours and who h

yes almost brought fort

e longer than I should have, before finally looking away. Wher

t of the gossip machinery that had crucified my mo

any of their eyes, but this time I walked with my head held high and my back

e on the highway, headed

litician and I were the only two

f wishing for their loud banter, or anything that would diffuse the s

he said to me after a while,

lucky a m

tions and a chill

face away. I wasn't quite ready to put on a show,

ce. And thankfully, he respected i

half his age. And it wasn't just because of his expensively maintained skin or impeccable grooming. His body was still toned. . The truth

o, my nerves rose to the fore, and I kept thinking we would turn off the majo

I realised tha

us had alread

at if he was taking me somewhere to kill me? At

going to the airport. I don't live in India" he said, l

nd scared at

aving India and my first

sed to travel a lot before she married pap

plane waiting in the middle of the deserted place, there was n

a handful of peop

ayed by the boot to get my small l

y husband, took my hands and softly d

't as big as ummi told me but

h I found out was a bedroom, I was told that I sh

I shut my eyes, so I stayed awake reciting verses from the Quran before I

as the air hostess who had come to tell me that they

untry, not knowing this was my new hell bu