Silence!
Something ought to have hooked everyone’s breath back in their lungs because there is not even a slight sign that anyone is releasing a breath.
Eyes are glaring at Liam sternly. More than a stupor, it is mental rejection that all of them are bathing in. Their faces look so disconsolate, almost dimming this huge room. Each one of them is lost in disbelief for a moment.
“You did not just say that, son!” Liam’s father is the first one to recuperate from the stupor. I guess he is the toughest of them all.
And he looks dead daring. His eyes are wide open, brimming with redness. A sign of fury and disbelief is etched in them.
“Yes, I did, father. If my wife cannot perform any of her f*****g sworn duties, I do not see the reason for having a wife. She is better off gone!” Liam affi
