Chapter 157. A Constant Fear

Currently, she sat alone on a sofa near the glass wall, staring at the rain. The sky, the grass, and the garden all looked refreshed as if the atmosphere was waiting for nature to bring man back to breathe. Similar to the man in the desert waiting for a drop of water.

Similar to that man, these trees and flowers, she too was waiting for her rain. Her freedom.

She never told anyone how much she desired to breathe freely without constant fear.

But she knew it was illegal to think like that. She belonged to Shehryaar only and completely.

These thoughts alone were enough to stifle her desire for freedom, to push it back inside her.

Suddenly, the telephone placed near her began to ring. She looked around, but nobody was there to attend the phone. At first, she decided to let it ring because she thought she didn’t have the permission to answer a random person's phone just like that. She ignored it, and after a short time, the bell died down, but soon enou