Chapter 28

Ayleen’s POV

My parents were united in an arranged marriage, with my father being twelve years older than my mother, who was at that time the same age as me. It was the typical arranged marriage ritual at that time.

It wasn’t that my father wasn’t loyal or anything; he was kind and caring, but his anger issues always led to arguments and sometimes violence between my parents. He always believed that a man should be treated with more respect than a woman in a marriage, and my mother’s young age didn’t help either. Most of the time, he would disregard my mother’s opinions, considering himself wiser and always right.

My mother would always be the one to compromise and turn back to him, despite the way he would sometimes disrespect and disregard her, and in extreme cases, slap her multiple times.

Though with time, things seemed to settle a bit, but their hot-and-cold relationship had an impact on me. I would listen fearfully to my father shouting at my mo