Chapter 356

• The kind of searing pain I felt as she said that had no equal. Tears gathered in my eyes. “I love him. Even if it kills me, I will keep loving him. I don’t care if everyone thinks I am crazy and stupid. They don’t understand how it feels. Nobody knows what I feel.”
• Rita leaned back in her seat, narrowing her eyes at me. “I see what the problem is, Leila. But let me share what I think. Do you feel that you were meant to be with him, even after you have been hurt so severely? I mean, take a look at everything that happened simply because you and him had a secret affair. Lives were lost. You nearly died and he also, nearly died. There was no happiness. There was no peace. Your mental health got affected, and now you feel like everyone is trying to hurt you.
• “Now you can’t associate with your family. Your ex-husband left a lot of properties to you after the divorce, and you left them all there, abandoned. You have become a hollow husk. A ghost of your former self, and a sad shadow. But, of course, you can start again.” She leaned forward eagerly. “I want to asked you a question, Leilani, and I want you to think about it really well and give me your answer. If you were given a second chance to go back to the past, would you still do the same thing?”