OBLIVIOUS REDEMPTION

CHAPTER 82: The Calm Before The Storm

~ Life is a business of making choices, history will define us the way we intend to author it~

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Yasmeen

I woke up excited and full of life today. I have not been this happy in such a long time, Even though it is going to be a busy day at work

I will be handing over my responsibilities to a colleague because I will be going to my home town to attend my cousins wedding tomorrow. I have asked my husband weeks earlier and he has agreed to let me go.

Ahmad knows too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained. But still, He hardly say a word to me, the only time we talk is when I greet him. There was peace though, there was less scolding, the atmosphere was calm and I was okey with it

After the car incident, He has buried his resentment for a while now. But resentment buried is not gone. It is like burying a seed, for a season it may stay hidden in the dark, but in the end, it will always grow.

I always cook for him but he never eats it, he goes out and buys his food and sometimes he brings it home and eat. But I never stopped cooking.

Ahmad is like the artist and I am only the picture. I can't see it. So I quietly submit to be painted, I kept fulfilling all the obvious duties of my station

Later in the night, He came home with his food, along with two cake slices. He handed me the cakes before he started eating his food, ignoring the one that I have cooked for him

When he gave me that cake, I knew it was too good to be true, for I can't remember the last time he bought anything for me. I am quite sure that something is wrong. I wasn't bothered because what could be worse than the life I am living?

I was eating my cake slice when he cleared his throat and took a moment to study my mood, then he started talking

"You're leaving this house" he said

"Why? Has anything happened?" I asked, with a hint of surprise

It was like I had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and I pretended to be surprised

But in reality, I wasn't surprised, for that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings, entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture, a moment, something of the past. one second, they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. But when it comes to their own selfish interest, You are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace, As if the human heart means that little to them.

"Yes, You have done things that have really offended me recently. When you go to your cousins wedding tomorrow, don't come back. Just stay at home and think about this, take a break, decide if you still want to be in this marriage or not" he told me

"Okey" I replied, with my mouth full

I felt a little cheated. I had fallen in love with a rootless man who wanted nothing but to toy away with my feelings

"I'll start by telling your mom" he said, bringing out his phone. He called my mom, they exchanged pleasantries and he started to talk

"I'm calling because I want to tell you that I'm sending Yasmeen home. I want her to decide whether she still wants to be in this marriage or not" he told her

"What has she done to you this time?" She asked

"She did two things to me that really pained me recently" he started