Shanaya continued, "Francis Xavier was not a bad husband, nor was he a good one. He usually ignored me. I knew he had a girlfriend in the next town, and he often went to see her. On bad days, he came home and tried to take me, but I often fought him. I would not let him touch me again after that first time. And after a while, he stopped paying attention to me. The only one in the family who ever looked at me was his grandmother."
"How did you get out of it?" Zeenia asked her.
"About a month after living with them...I don't know if it was a miracle from God or punishment, but the baby inside me died," Shanaya said.
"I am so sorry," Zeenia said.
"Sometimes I think I am sorry too, although mostly I am glad it happened. I don't know how it happened either. Did God finally hear my prayers?
