Silence stretched between them on the way back from Aunt Hamira’s boutique. Rakia, who was still feeling a little dizzy, tried to relax her shaken state while wearing the wedding dress. She felt that ever since Benjamin broke her heart by marrying another woman secretly behind her back and then canceling their wedding, it had left her traumatized. But right now her mind was on the other hand curious about the conversation at Aunt Hamira’s boutique about Dashtan.

“What has that man done in his past? Could he have impregnated someone and left her? Or maybe he aborted a baby from his relationship with a woman so as not to...