An Arranged Marriage - Episode 28

 

The knock comes very late, very very late and I groan, stumbling out of bed.

Who is that person and what do they want at... I glance at the clock... At 1 in the morning.?

Kane dropped me off two hours ago after making me drink just two shots of tequila.

It got me tipsy and he ordered me to stop, I'm never drinking alcohol again..

He laughed when I said that into his neck as he carried me into the house.

I vaguely wonder if he isn't concerned that there might be some stray papz but I can't find it in me to care, I'm too happy to concern myself with that right now.

My happiness dissolves when I look through the peep hole and see my father standing there.

What does he want?

"Anadia, I know you are there, I saw you through the window, open this door" He says, his voice almost a yell.

I quickly do so before he wakes the girls.

"What do you want?"

"Get out of my way, can't I come into my own house?"

"Say what you want to say and be gone papa" I say.

"Get away from that door girl" He says and some old part of me that still fears him immediately makes me limp away from the door.

He knows I'm scared because he smirks, I immediately hate him. Again.

"You've been busy" He says, eyeing me up and down.

"What do you mean?"

"Did he give you the land? After you spread your legs for him?" He asks and I flinch.

"Don't be crude"

"I see he did not give you, never fret my child, he must be infatuated with you because he's still around" He says and I hate that he's taking the beautiful thing that is blossoming between me and Kane and tainting it with his filthy words.

"Just say what you want"

" I want the box" He says and my heart thuds.

"What box?" I whisper.

"The box you are supposed to get when you turn Twenty six, well you are twenty six and I want it, it's mine" He says.

"You are mistaken papa, it's not yours" I say.

"Well, the law says other wise, seeing as my signature is on the deed of the land the box follows, don't you remember?" He asks and horror hits me because he's correct.

Mother's will stated that whoever got the land got the box too, I had forgotten..

"Well, box my dear, seeing as you have no husband around, its mine" He says and I vaguely notice that we are standing in the middle of the sitting room.

I really want sit down.

But..

"Husband?"

"Oh, You don't know that the only way the box stays with you is if you are married?"

I didn't know that.

"Well, seems you didn't know that, so box dear, seeing as you have no husband" he repeats again.

I have to think, I have to do something, I can't let him get his hands on that box, he took the land, he can't take the box too.

"Well, papa, I'm neither married nor twenty six yet, if you want to get the box you will have to go to the bank yourself" I say, hoping against all hope that he doesn't actually go to the bank.

"What? You think I'm not going to go to the bank? You think you are the only one eager to see the last thing your mama left? since you can't get a husband in a week, I will have to go to the bank myself then, thank you for your time daughter" He says, turning to leave.

"Wait.

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. Please.. Don't do this?" My voice breaks but he doesn't turn back, he strides to the door, only when he's there did he turn.

"You think you've got him don't you?" He asks, what is he talking about?

"You will be crushed girl, and when he's done with you, you and those sisters of yours will come crawling back to me" He says as a farewell.

The cold winds flows in before he slaps the door shut.

I begin to shake, full shakes, a hand wraps around me from my back and I turn into the warmth as the first sob comes deep, deep from my belly.

I hear Anaya and the girls cooing to me, piling loads of afghan on me but I can't seem to be able to get warm.

The shakes continues.

***

Kane

Guilt is a motherfucker.

But nevertheless, I'm guilty as fuck.

When the call came in today I hadn't expected what I heard.

"Um. Um.. I wasn't.. I wasn't. Supposed to call you.. But i did.. Anyway.. Shit Anaya will kill me" Anadia's sister says, one of the twins, I don't know which one..

"Speak to me" I say in a gruff voice and the people sitting down to a meeting with me look surprised.

They've never heard me concerned, well, I haven't actually answered a call in front of them before.

"Well..

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. Anadia.. Our father.. He showed up.. And well,..." She releases a breath."...she won't stop shaking.. Mr.. Kane sir" She says in an almost whisper.

"is she well?" I ask, already on my feet, signalling to my P. A to cancel this meeting.

"No,.. Not a little bit" Says the girl and I'm out of the boardroom so fast.

I get my in an elevator and I'm out of there, so fast, my car taking direct to her house.

I bang on the door and it flies open.

"What are you doing here?"Anaya asks, my eyes had gone to the twins.

" Which one of you called me? "

The one called Aroofa lifts her hand a little, the other two glare at her, I don't have time for this shit.

I take the stairs two at a time and I'm in her room, she seemed so small in her bed, piled under that mountain of duvet.

" What is wrong with her?"

"She's fine... She gets like that when she hits her stress maximum"

"You call this fine.?! She's shaking, she must be so cold. Hospital... We are going to a hospital." I start.

"You'd be wasting your time, it's PTSD, there's nothing an hospital can do for her, she just has to feel safe and she will be calm" Anaya answers.

"Aroofa knows this, I don't know why she called you" She adds, sending a glare at the girl. 

My eyes are on Anadia. 

"How long has she been like this?" 

"13 hours, it started early this morning, she had an unpleasant situation with our scumbag of a father" Aroos says and I feel my eyes fall close as that niggling guilt eats me. 

This is where I am now, guilty as an asshole. 

If I had known, if only I had known sending her father to her yesterday would do this, I.....

I end that train of thought because I don't know if i would have stopped, if I wouldn't have done it. 

And that's what makes me sick. 

AN

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