The stranger....
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Her beautiful big black eyes, were full of sadness. Her long black hair, were beautiful but messy. She was pretty thin for her age, as if not been properly nutritioned since childhood. She was one of those rare beauties, which could be seen only once in a million, yet she looked extremely untidy. She was dressed in her old torn clothes, which were too loose for her tiny body. She wore the only pair of foot-wears she had, from past five years.
She had not left her house from past one month! Though, she was married, but she had not seen her husband from past one month now, from the day of the wedding. Where is he? Who is he? She had no idea at all. She had been married for one month now, but the man never showed his face to her after the wedding. She was now, lonely, living in an old gigantic house all alone, not even having a house-maid to accompany!
A tear dropped down from her eye as she washed away all the color from her clothes. This is what she had wanted to be! A painter! Back at the orphanage, she used to study and paint happily.
She was happy in her tiny own world in the orphanage, when one day during an event in their orphanage a man saw her. He was almost double her age, yet he told the owners that he wanted to marry Elly.
He paid a very handsome amount to them, while her took away the girl to his house. Elly sat in the car, with the man unhappily. She did not want to leave her home.
She tried to convince the owners, but they refused to keep her any longer in the building. Having no other choice, she had to go with the man, she had not even seen! At just 22 years of age, the girl was marrying a man of 37 years of age!
She sat in the back seat of the long black colored car, with tinted glass and turned her head to look at the man.
Elly: Who are you?
Man: Your future husband.
Elly: Why do you want to marry me?
Man: You are beautiful!
Elly: What is your name?
Man: That is none of your business.
Elly: What do you do?
Man: That is none of your business.
Elly: What do I call you?
Man: Call me 'sir.'
Elly: How old are you?
Man: 37
Elly: Do you know I am just 22 years old.
Man: I know!
Elly: Still you want to marry me?
The man finally turned to look at Elly. He had those mysterious dark gray eyes, that could scare the wits out of anybody! His dark brown hair, were already a little grey from the roots. Though he was good-looking and extremely fit but yet he looked scary. "Yes! I will marry you! Little girl, you ask too many questions! I am marrying you, because you are beautiful and young, with no worldly experience. You have not even moved out of the orphanage much! Thus, you will not interfere in my work at all. You dare to do anything against my wishes, I tell you, you will be dead the next second! Is that enough of an answer for your questions?" He smiled and grazed his finger on her soft pinkish cheeks.
"Yes!" Elly lowered her eyes, hiding the tears in her eyes. She was scared! Scared to the core now!
"Yes what girl!?" The pushed up her chin, to make her look at him.
She looked at the man and a tear dropped down from her left eye. "Yes sir!"
"Good girl!" The man patted her head, as if treating a slave
Elly felt like she was a dog, who was being patted for obeying him. She did not look at the man anymore as they drove towards an unknown area for many hours.
Finally after two hours, Elly again looked at the man and gathered the courage to speak up. "Where are we going? This is no longer Singapore!" Elly was now extremely scared, having never stepped out of orphanage much.
"You don't have to know that! Just sign this contract and you are my legally wedded wife!" The man who had been holding a few papers, handed over a typed document to her, and pointed towards a blank space. "Here is the pen! Do it!"
"C...Can I read the document first?" Elly looked up at the man, holding the pen with her shivering hands.
"You know, how to read?" The man frowned, looking at the girl in doubt.
"Y...Yes...I am an english grad....graduate!" Elly looked down at the contract, trying to read it.
"I see! Interesting! You are not so dumb after- all! Go ahead read it!" The man gave another devilish smirk to her.
Elly held up the documents, reading the clauses one by one!
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