Chapter 242. Sleepless Nights

The sun appeared in the sky, announcing a new day. Sleep never reached Shehryar as he spent his entire night recalling Sheherzaad's words. Her words kept him wandering on the streets of the village in the night with a cigarette in his hand. He smoked to his fill to get a tinge of intoxication so he could escape from the wrath of her words.

He had stopped alcohol consumption because of his father. Haider had begged his son not to touch that liquid since wine was responsible for Shehryar's deadly accident.

Haider considered wine the reason for his son's bedridden state. But Shehryar considered his wrongdoings with Sheherzaad the cause of that state. He had restricted Sheherzaad in the cell so nature restrained him to the bed as a punishment. He had endured it all, considering it as his penance. As his salvation for his wrongdoings. So he could look at himself in the mirror and have at least some consolation and encouragement to give to himself that he truly deserved Shehe