Edwin returned to their room to find the lights already dimmed. Jasmin lay tossing and turning caught in what looked like a terrible nightmare. He sat beside her watching her in the soft darkness.
He thought about this marriage of theirs. It was nothing like what he had ever imagined. He had never sought this yet fate had brought them together in the most unexpected way. Now he found himself torn. He had once despised her yet the thought of letting her go pained him more than he cared to admit. He still did not know what he would do. Part of him wished to walk away yet another part could not bear to see her alone anymore.
'God is she truly meant for me? Why does it feel so impossible to accept her yet even more impossible to let her go?'
He rubbed his face wearily. He remembered
