A week later Sabine was still staying at John's and avoiding her parents' and Naveen's calls. Her parents said they were coming to visit her and get this situation with her marriage settled. Naveen told her he wouldn't give up. That she would come back to him and if she didn't, then he would make her and anyone else pay. She was still in pain but not as bad.

"Hey." John said walking in the bedroom.

"Hey." She replied. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah. I arranged for some time off so I will be here with you." He said sitting on the bed with her

"That's great. Can you really do that?"

"Yeah. Are you feeling okay?"

"Yeah. I'm still sore but okay."

"Any throwing up today?"

"No." She replied. She had thrown up the day before and he worried it was something serious. "So, it's good."

"That's great." He said just as the doorbell rang. "Who is that?"

"I don't know."

"Stay here I will get it and if it's your husband stay here quietly."

He walked downstairs not sure who was at the door. He opened and there stood her husband. John stepped outside to talk to him.

"Well, I figured you would come soon." John said to him. "So, what can I do for you?"

"Send my wife back to me. I'm her husband." Naveen replied as they stood on the porch.

"I don't think so. I don't send people back to people who abuse them."

"She is my wife and our life is none of your business."

"Oh, I think it is. I'm not letting you anywhere near her. She doesn't want to be married to you anymore. She left you. Deal with it."

"Do you think she loves you? No, you are merely something to entertain her."

"She does love me. You she doesn't love. She never did. She only married you because her parents forced her. And what did you do? You raped her and hit her."

"She was promised to me and I was the first one to be with her. That bonds us. I'm her husband and she is coming home with me." Naveen tried to walk past John but John grabbed him and pushed him back.

"See you're wrong. I was her first. The night I helped her when her car broke down and I took her to the hotel. We made love that night. She didn't want you to be the first one."

"You're lying." Naveen said trying once again to get by John. He couldn't believe that this was the guy who helped her that night on the road. John pushed him harder this time and he fell onto the grass. "She values her traditions and family to break one of them like that."

"You don't know her as well as you think. Yes, she values her traditions and family but she also knows when something isn't exactly right with things. She didn't trust you to be the first. And she was right because what did you do on the wedding night? You raped her."

"I did what I had to do to my wife." Naveen stood up from where he was. He knew that this guy was not going to let him near Sabine. He would leave and tell her parents exactly where she was.

"Leave now." John stood in front of the door.

"Fine. I'll leave for now. But know, just because you're fucking my wife and have been for months, that wont' continue. Once her parents come and make her come back to me, this little thing you have is over." Naveen said before walking away.

John made sure he was gone before he headed back in the house. He headed back upstairs and found Sabine was awake. He expected her to be asleep.

"So, what did you talk about?"

"He wanted you back and told me that when your parents come and make you go back to him, we would be over."

"I don't want to go back to him no matter what my parents say and I certainly don't want us to be over."

"Sabine, I know that. But you said it yourself, your family wants you to do what they want. Can you really stand up to them?" He asked sitting down beside her.

"I hope I can. I know I'm strong and I know what I want. I just hope they realize what makes me happy and it's not Naveen." She said just before the nausea hit again. "Oh, god gotta go."

She quickly made her way to the bathroom. She wondered if she should see a doctor again. Maybe there was something they had missed the week before when she was in the hospital after the beating.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked once she came back into the room.

"Yeah. It's probably from the antibiotics and stuff." She sat down. "Did he tell you when my parents were coming?"

"No."

"I guess I will listen to my messages and see if they said when." She got her cell phone and checked her messages. The one from her mother said they would arrive the next day. "They will be here tomorrow and the first place they will stop is my house and then once Naveen tells them where I am, they will come here and try to get me to go back to him."

"Sabine, whatever happens, we will be okay. I'm not letting you go back to him."

"I don't want to go back and I'm not." She said just before she got sick. Once she came out the bathroom. "God, seriously, this sucks. I'm going back to the doctor and see what he missed. If this is the antibiotics or pain medication, they need to switch them."

"Alright, let's go." He said getting up.

They headed out the door and to the doctor. She didn't want to go to the ER so, they headed to her doctor. She had called and the doctor said he would see her. She hoped it was just the medication and nothing more serious. She hoped that Naveen hadn't done any damage that day.

Naveen arrived home and couldn't believe that he let that guy keep him from Sabine. But he knew that once her parents came, they would make her come back and she would do what they wanted because she always did. He would get his wife back and this time, he would make sure she knew to never leave him again.

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