Chapter 17

I followed behind my father as he stormed to his study room. I thought of what to do to resolve the issue because I knew it would turn to something worse very soon. Nothing came to my mind and that made the desperation I felt grip me harder.

"Father, please, hear me out. Please forgive me for this. It was my fault. It was all my fault. I'll take all the punishment. Adrian is not to blame please…" I pleaded with him, but my words fell on deaf ears.

"Do you even know who that man is?! You have no idea who he is and you were there kissing him? So shamelessly?! Do you know his family, where he came from?!! You're acting so loose!" My father yelled at me.

"Father, please just hear me out…"

"Hear what?!"

"Please just spare his life. I'll take all the punishment. I admit I did wrong…" All my pleas were drowned out by my father's furious shouts.

"Why do you have no shame? To embarrass me like that in front of an elder?!" he bellowed, his face twisted with