The Tenant Pt. 03
MARIA Maria sat on her bed, staring off into the distance. Her arms and chest still stung from all the scrubbing she did, scrubbing off the clumps of semen sprayed on her by Shekar and his friends. She now had the smell of lavender about her, but that did not help forget what happened. What really happened up there? She wondered. The more she thought of it, the more she felt aroused. The men left some while ago. Maria heard their laughs and taunts from the confines of her room, which she had not left for the past four hours. She had become a prisoner in her own home. Some modicum of relief came to her with the return of her husband. He had turned a blind eye to Shekar's actions in the past, but he certainly wouldn't do the same now. Would he? Maria locked the door and made her husband sit on the bed. "Ichaya, there's something I have to tell you... about Shekar," she said in a hushed tone. "God. Not again with this Shekar business," Jude said with tire...