Hidden Truth Of The Night Love

company, he hadn't thought that one day it would go bankrupt and his life would be threatened with jail as the investors were starting to squeeze at his throat and he ha

ole company with Mara's father answering alternatively to him. Mara's father had no choice, how it had come to this. He had agreed and he looked more pathetic than ever. He hasn't told his daughter about it, how would he tell her? He thought. He picked up the papers that had littered the ground of his office, they were the paperworks about to be handed over to Edward. He slid his hands through his hair and stood at the spot akimbo, and momentarily he paced about the room in deep thoughts. He picked his phone on the desk and dialled his daughter. "Mara!" He said unwittingly when her voice came through the phone. "Father...!" She called with concern. First, she noticed the coldness in his voice and second, it was the first time he ever called at work. "Mara," he said again and surrendered to the resolve of telling her on the phone better than telling her in person. There was silence for a while and it made the hairs on her body stand guard. "Father! Is everything ok?" She asked with falter in her voice. "Yeah! Yeah!" He replied. He admitted that he could not bring himself to tell her. But she was not the type to back down in any circumstance. She pestered. "Father...!" He forcefully swallowed a bile in his throat and tears formed in his eyes although she could not see it. "It is terrible!" His voice trembled. "What is father?" She asked, more scared than before. "I am terrible!" He said. "What has happened, father?" She inquired. "I did something terrible, I pawned you away." It was not clear to her what he had meant, "Wha.... What do you mean you pawn me away? Father!" She tried to understand but h