Chapter 38

Weeks passed by in a blur. How astonishing it was that he had deserted her that long. It went from just one month to two months. Can she even still call herself a wife? Can she tolerate this any longer? Hidayah closed her eyes and grimaced; Her morning sickness was day and night. Whatever she ate comes out almost immediately after she has eaten. She was starting to get impatient about it. She cried every day. Not because of his absence, but because of the sickness she’d been going through for days now.

Her eyes were fixed on the TV in front of her but her thoughts were far away from what was actually going on. Suddenly, the nausea clawed at her throat, and she tried to force down the bile, but it was too late. She scrambled up and hurriedly entered the guest toilet in the living room. Chunks of partially disgusted chicken spewed out of her coughing, choking mouth. Her stomach kept on contracting violently and forcing everything up and out. Her face was white and drippin