~Fifty Nine~
"I'm pregnant." Leela felt her eyes bulging out of its sockets. She was expecting so much in that moment. Like, how she had managed to bring all the girls of the village to protest and fight in the war; like, how everyone were turning into a rebel, getting inspired by Siya. She was expecting her daughter to even marry Sahib without her and Satyavan's consent but what she had never expected was Siya to announce her pregnancy with so much pride as if she had earned a reward. Leela felt like someone had gripped her lungs in their unforgiving hands and she couldn't breathe. Those hands belonged to Siya. "You're what?" Satyavan asked, shock clear as day in his eyes. Suddenly he looked so much more alert, so much more woke up. The usually proud father, who always believed that his daughters
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