The whole house is shaking with fear as the new wife is not opening the door.
Finally I started knocking on the door myself. The same thing about the new wife, she can’t do it in any satin house.
I have to leave this house or he will commit suicide and trap everyone in the house including Russell.
Everyone in the house is silent, they can’t drive me away and can’t calm down the new wife.
Finally I thought I had to do what I had to do.
But what do I do?
After lying in the corner of the house for so long, what kind of magic has been born on this house.
After my marriage, as many children as were born in this house, I have nurtured each son and daughter with my own hands.
Maybe I don’t have a pulse with them.
But I can never deny my love for them.
Father is not alive to go to him.
Everyone will laugh if you leave your husband’s house at this age.
Besides, I don’t have any children myself. So the rest of the life should be burdened by brother and sister-in-law.
After thinking about everything, it is better for me to stay at my father-in-law’s house no matter how hard it is.
No girl in the world can give a husband’s share to anyone.
Even with that share, I have no other option but to stay in this house.
From behind closed doors, I explained to my wife a lot that I will never come to you with Russell’s demands.
I will never put you in trouble for the sake of any right.
As a working man let me stay in this house for a while.
I will spend the rest of my life as a working man. But give me some shelter in this house.
He said the same, either you stay in this house or I stay.
I cannot bear you one more moment.
It is your choice whether you leave this house or I hang myself from this world.
Russell’s three-month-old son continues to cry.
No one can stop his crying. His wife does not open the door and take him home.
Mother-in-law just kept holding my hand and saying do what you think is best wife.
Everything is in your hands now. Save my family anyway.
I understand what he is trying to convey.
In other words, once I leave, all the problems in this house will disappear.
I was standing outside the door begging for mercy from my new wife, sacrificing my self-respect.
But my pleading did not influence his decision at all.
At this age, I don’t know where to go or what to do when I leave my husband’s house.
Still I assured the new wife that I will leave the house.
When the new wife opened the door and let the son into the house, everyone in the house got a little relief.
After some night, I packed all my useful things from Russell’s house the next morning.
Today is the time to cherish this house.
The house that has sheltered me for almost twenty-five years is going to be mine today.
One by one I took leave from everyone in the house.
Devar’s sons and daughters do not want to leave at all.
It says majo ma from today you will stay in our house.
It says majo ma from today you will be with us.
But even if the elders made a mistake, they never once said that you will stay in this house.
I went to Russell to say goodbye.
Russell is still busy settling for his new wife.
To this day, I do not know whether my farewell message reached his ears that day.
I just noticed that Russell was coming when I was talking.
Stay well, and take care of yourself always.
Then he turned his face to the other side and pretended not to see me.
And as soon as I stepped out of the room, the new wife blocked the door with a loud noise.
I said to Majid, the van driver of the house next door, will you bring me to my father’s house, Majid?
Today, Majid has a lot of work. He is the father of his first son.
As the child is seven days old, he is making noise today.
He should not have time to catch his breath on such a day.
However, Majid said, Mejo Amma, you are saying that I will not go, how did you think that?
Only Allah knows how many benefits I have received from you in life. You are the only one who has stood by the poor like me in the days of need. You are ready, I will bring the car.
Within five minutes, Majid appeared with the van.
I could take any car from the road and go to my father’s house.
But it was as if I was not walking to the road.
So to give trouble to Majid even in the midst of such busyness.
I looked at the house as far as the eye could see.
The house that has taken away my husband, children, family, happiness of life, what is my attraction to that house!
Tears are flowing down my eyes and I am seeing the picture of the uncertainty of the future life in those tears.
Majid quickly pulled the car after delivering me to my father’s house.
Everyone in the whole house is looking at my face with eager eyes.
I am the eldest child of this house.
So no one has the courage to question why I suddenly packed everything and went to my father’s house.
Even though my father is not there, my brothers and sisters respect me very much.
Jamil’s (elder brother) wife hurriedly took the cloth bag from my hand.
Nephews and cousins pulled me home by the hand.
My address is my father’s house again like in that childhood.
It’s been almost two years since I left the Russells’ house. So far, not a single animal in the house has contacted me.
Husband and family are too much. There is no more greed for them.
So I thought I should at least live with a little self-respect.
Till date I have not received any divorce letter from Russell.
I just don’t have the strength to carry a fake relationship these days.
So I sent the divorce letter to Russell by myself.
But after that I didn’t have to stay long even as a brotherhood.
The wife of a government official in the neighboring village has been missing for about six months.
Gentleman has one son and one daughter.
They are big now. They have learned to understand themselves so they don’t need their mother anymore.
Still, thinking of a beautiful and safe future and last life of their father, both boys and girls accepted an ugly person like me as their mother.
Even children in their own wombs do not respect mothers as much as they do me.
My world also now revolves around their father and their two siblings.
So much happiness that God has written on my forehead, I could not even imagine a few years ago.
Now sometimes I think it was my sin to trick Rumana into marrying Russell and conceal the cause of Palash’s death.
And my atonement was my husband’s homelessness.
Maybe I am so happy today because the sin has already been atoned for!
About a month ago. I went to a relative’s house with my husband and sons and daughters.
Suddenly someone there hugged my leg and started crying.
Look carefully and see that Russell’s wife who one day forced me to leave Russell’s house. They also came to see him dead.
Not understanding anything, I tried to calm him down and asked why he was doing this.
I was shocked by what I heard from his mouth!
A few years ago, there was another murder in Russell’s village.
But this time, the people who opposed the Russells died.
Russell was in Dhaka when the murder took place and knew nothing about it.
Still, Russell has been in jail for nine months as a false accused in that case.
He has become very mentally unbalanced.
Sometimes the wife does not even recognize the children.
No one can say what will be the punishment of Russell in the final verdict.
Russell’s wife thinks that Russell and his wife have committed a great sin by throwing me out of the house.
And so today the whole family is suffering the consequences of that sin.
I don’t know if the people in the house really sinned by driving me away.
But the sin they committed against my husband many years ago is perhaps being atoned for by their youngest son Russell today.
This may have been written in his destiny.
