Zayne might have let Carmine live but the heftiness still lingered in the home. The silence had gobbled the walls. The place where we were once laughing, had become a silent tomb. Everything was becoming hollow and the distant feeling was suffocating me. Yet for the sake of reviving I once lost, I poured all my attention into being a ‘good’ wife. I was tending to his needs before he could utter them, my devotion had reached its peak. I wanted him to look at me with affection, for that, I could do anything. Zayne was sitting in the library, his eyes fixed on a book, biting onto his biscuit. “Where is my–” He began. “Here is your tea, Zayne. Exactly how you like it,” I interrupted softly, placing the cup on the side table. I had been standing in the kitchen for ten minutes fo

