he could see her smiling. She was in the same beautiful red lehnga she wore on their wedding. Only new was her blood on it.
His palms and forehead were sweating
as he sat in a corner, behind the
wardrobe, trying his best to hide,
just as that day when he watched
her walking towards him. But that
day it was out of anxiousness and
today out of fear. Next day the
news headlines read, "On the very
next day of being acquitted in the
'murder for dowry' case, the whole
family hanged themselves."
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