Chapter 7

Ajit

Today Adaah is very reticent. She did not ask me any doubts about her subjects and was unusually quiet. She was distancing herself from me, and I somehow did not like the feeling. I want her to confide everything in me. But I need to give her some time to open up. It is dinner time, and she is abnormally quiet. To say it bothers me is an understatement I know there is something messing up in her brain. I tried to make a conversation to loosen her up, but she would answer me only in monosyllables.

I was getting angry and frustrated with her changed behaviour, but I put my emotions under control. Like every day, I tucked her into bed and kissed her forehead to say goodnight. She just nodded, and I know without a doubt that she was trying to arrest her cry. I left her room to the study hoping that she would unmask her malaise.

After some time, there was a knock at the door, and in came my ‘little girl.’ I breathe a hope of relief. She was finally r