The beat of my heart.

I can't fight my mother - in- law

Shammah River, the lover of Samlah Catava married from the Catava family before Arden married Thandy. In the beginning, she also faced criticism from Samlah' s mother. However, she didn't back down. She was someone who also likes to pick fights so one could say her mother-in-law got herself a perfect match. They fought until Samlah' s mother become tired.

She always encouraged Thandy to fight for his marriage just like she did. But Thandy was not someone who likes confrontation, anyway he just tried his best to ignore his mother-in-law.

Thus this way, she gave him hard times while he suffered in silence .
There was a day when his mother-in-law pushed him down, he almost had a miscarriage. He told Arden about it but he only promise to talk to her but he didn't.

After that time , there was numerous attacks from both the sisters and their mother but each time Arden would only say he'd sort it out but he never did.

Since that time, Thandy stopped telling him things he was going through in the hands of his in-laws. He endured and endured until he gave birth to Caleb prematurely..

If before was bad, now it became worst.They started getting more violent physically both on him and the baby.

When they moved out to Arden's Mansion, things became better . It was only him , Arden and their son. Life became good again and he was enjoying his marriage.
This way he gave birth to Calah who the Catava family called abnormal.

He remembered it as clear as day what his mother-in-law told him when Calah was two.

She said ," You know I really feel pity for my son to be married to a good- for- nothing thing like you.  You can't do anything properly. First you gave birth to his son prematurely. And now you have given birth to mental retard.  Tell me , if you continue being together with him , what will you give birth to next."

He had asked her ," Do I really have the power to create children. Or decide what I give birth to. And are they not humans?"

She responded, " Do you think you can also give birth to humans?"
With that she walked away.

Yet his intuition told him that she was not done with him .

And time proves him right. Over the past two years she has been threatening him to leave Arden.
Recently the threat become frequent. He has lost count to how many times he was kidnapped. There are bruises all over his body, and just today there were new ones again.

They told him if he couldn't leave, they would kill him and kill his children.

He can die, but his children must live. They both couldn't die.!

" Mommy will go and talk to Daddy. You sleep first" Thandy told his kids and kissed them each on their foreheads.

He came outside to Arden ," What are you doing. You are disturbing the kids." Arden has been knocking the door nonstop, they couldn't sleep at all.

Of course Arden knew he was disturbing the kids, but the issues between them must be settle today.

Come to think of it, these days Thandy was very moody to him. They rarely talk as couples. Like a while ago in their room, when he just tried to be intimate with him, he pushed him away quietly and left.

The look in his eyes was disgust. And it was directed towards him. But this anger, he could understand. Any one in Thandy's shoes would do that.

But what he was thinking was just a part of Thandy's unhappiness.

" Love. Listen to me, let me explain. I swear that I didn't do it intentionally" He held Thandy's hand as tight as he could , fearing he may walked away.