DARREN Exactly a year earlier, I had signed the contract with GEI. I had asked them for 365 days of my freedom. I was so sure that I could earn enough money and freedom in that one year. I had truly thought that my escape plan would work and that I could make things alright in our love life. In a way, I still held on to the faith that things could have gone as per my intention. But there was never a plan where Culture wasn’t. Her disappearance proved to be fatal on my side. I was basically a bird with a torn wing, trying to take flight to the zenith. I was powerless without my love, my hope. She barely even understood that. That particular year was vicious. It had tormented me so much. I lost many things within that one year. Yet, instead of cowering down, I had faced whatever s**t was

