𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞

33

A month passed since the car incident, 

Mayur started taking more cautions then before, she is always so sceptical about everything and jumpy all the time, as if she could feel someone's eyes on her all the time, as if bunch of ghost figures always keeping eye on her on them,

but nothing changed,

nothing happened after that incident much to Mayur's dismay. Zeke and she would eat together, sleep together, when he is out at office she would be out too, at a place Kallan which was specifically provided to her for work without anyone noticing her.

If Ezekiel even noticed her absence he never asked questions about it,
Thank god for that.

But whenever he's at home he made sure never to leave her side as he knew she was stressed and afraid and last thing she needed was for him to be suspicions about her work.

Though she was infact stressed and afraid never uttered a word about the car vandalizing incident since that day.

In these few months, he noticed phases of his wife where she was the most passionate lover and in the next moment she would turn into someone different!

cold, calculative, emotionless,....

someone he would not recognize at all,
Then, the afraid - vulnerable one that would let out a blood curling scream because of some nightmare.

every night, ever since that accursed day!

And then a distant one...... who will be so absorbed in her own thought and wouldn't even notice him all day at all.

It was actually amusing for him to see how she would change from one mood to another so quickly but very concerning too.

He couldn't tell which one of them was his wife, If only he knew that, she was trying to block her pain instead of facing it.

sometimes he would just stay awake to check if she is sleeping peacefully,

Or if sleeping at all

She was a light sleeper, a restless one
And she never slept whole night especially after that incident,......

only if he knew she never slept peacefully at all in past either.

sometimes she would cry in sleep as if she was in pain.

lots of pain,

sometime she would beg someone to let her go, to stop and as if she was being tortured.....

And there he thought she was moaning because of some wet dreams about him, that day in Skagit Valley, he realized now why she tensed that day

Is that the reason she was reluctant to move in his bed room ?

Her nightmares

What are those about ?

And, Why ?

Why there's no record of any kind of  her ?
One time she was holed up in her previous room

"It’s me. May I come in?" She opened the door just a fraction and peered through the gap.

"Forgive me, Zeke, but would you mind allowing me some time to be alone?" To his surprise, she wasn’t tearful or shaken. Her voice was normal, quiet but calm. But he could still tell that she was even more disheartened than usual.

"I just want to talk to you. Can you not spare a few minutes?"

"I’m.... " She’d tilted her head down so that he couldn’t see her face. It didn’t seem like the right time for him to convey his feelings now when she was so overwhelmed by hers. Sighing, he glanced at her small head, which she kept so persistently low. When someone was hurting, it was best not to force them to open up.