Before Arm could leave their residence, Enock grabbed his hand and begged for his few minutes as he narrated the whole story of the pregnancy.
Enock revealed how he had thought Mileh had taken the plan B she had bought at the clinic only to find out later that she had discarded it and decided to habour a child. Arm's tension eased after the whole narrative. He realized that his cousin had not been sleeping with Mileh before the wedding, he had never.
The drive back to the safe house was a blur of neon lights and cold rain. Arm's knuckles were white against the steering wheel. He had always been a man who prided himself on control, but the revelation of the pregnancy—and the visceral image of Enock finally claiming the woman Arm had never truly wanted—left him feeling strangely untethered.
