" Maa? You were forced into this marriage?" Khushi eyed at her Sumitra Maa, her best friend with whom she could share anything and get motherly warmth in return in a hurt manner, while tears flowed out of her eyes thinking of her plight.
" My parents wanted a good home, a reputed family with loads of money and they thought that money could buy happiness. They thought this alliance was fortune knocking at our door. They couldn't see how wrong it was. Your father was a married man, who had you as his daughter already but he wanted a son. They thought it is perfectly right for him to think so and thought I would get the best life by wrecking someone else'. I know he would have married someone else and Jiji's home would still be wrecked but that doesn't let me out of the guilt I have been living in. I wouldn't want my fate for you, Khushi. A fate chosen with a desire for something greater than one possesses and A fate chosen by someone else for you, against your feelings and against you."
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