"I can't stay with a man I'm not married to." She finally said after a while of contemplating whether to say it or not. She lowered her eyes as she couldn't bring herself to look up at him. In her head, she knew that it would definitely sound ridiculous to him or any other person who heard what she just said, but that was who she was and she wasn't gonna change overnight.
Her father had continuously hammered it to their ears to the point where it became a household anthem. And even now that she was grown up, she couldn't see herself living with a man just for the fun of it or for any reason except they have been legally bound together.
The revelation came as a surprise to Axel as he couldn't say anything afterward. He just stared at her, wide-eyed for a moment, wondering why or how he didn't even think about it.
