65 Why Don't You Leave?

Ira was cooking alone when Samer came in the kitchen room.

She wore apron and had a messy bun and looked extremely serene to the eyes of onlookers.

Samer rested his body on the door frame and said "Since Grandpa is not home, why don't you leave? There's no need any more to be a good house wife!"

Ira was busy in her cooking and she got shock when she suddenly heard him. But whatever he spoke after that just made her stunned.

She tightened her grip on the spoon to surpass the suffocating feeling inside her chest.

When she finally felt that she would be able to speak, she nodded her head and said "Let me finish cooking. I will leave after that."

Samer felt slightly different after what he had done. But it had to be done.

When Ira was done cooking, she called their cook. Ira said to him that she would be out for few days and asked him to come to take care of Samer's everyday meal.

She put all the dishes on the dining table. She went upstairs to take her bag. She first thought that she would only take few things with her. But after considering for a while, she felt that it would be better if Samer couldn't see the things that belongs to her.

Ira was feeling her heart becoming empty as her time to go was coming near. Alright if he couldn't tolerate me I will leave and will not come in front of him till Grandpa returns.

She had three bags only inside of which everything was already packed. She took all of them one by one and brought them downstairs.

She saw Samer was reading news paper.

"Lunch is ready. You can have it." she said.

Samer heard her but didn't reply.

She thought that he would ask her to have lunch together.

Am I expecting too much?

"I will take my leave then." Ira said and stepped towards the main door.

She looked back at him several times but he didn't even give her a single glance.

After leaving the Moon Mansion, Ira searched for rental room as she had to spend one whole month there.

She didn't unpack so much things in the room, just those which will be needed on daily basis.

Samer had his lunch and started to work on his laptop. From last two days he had been working from home.

Tomorrow he has to go on site to see how's the progress going.

When Samer was having his dinner, his vision was frequently falling on Ira's seat. He felt that something was amiss. There's not the same vibe inside the mansion that it used to have before.

Even the meal he was having had different taste than usual. For some reason he lost his appetite.

When he entered the bedroom, it gave him even more deathly feeling than usual. The fragrance that used to circulate inside this room could no more be sensed.

When he crossed the sofa where Ira used to sleep, he finally smell some traces of her scent.

At night he only kept changing his sides without any signs of sleeping.

Ira was worried for Samer. She hoped that he was doing fine there without her. She too was having difficulty in sleeping.

When Samer woke up at morning he found himself sleeping on the sofa.

He rubbed his temples to relieve the irritation.

When he reached at the company, from his assistant Samer got to know that Ira had already went at the site.

She had already placed the progress reports of the work on his table as he asked for.

It had never happened before. Ira always handed every reports personally to him.

When Samer looked at one or more documents, he went to check on the site.

When he reached there, he asked the specific Engineers to check for material quality, safety management and the project progress.

Ira worked on the same site but he could not see her in his proximity.

When he got the satisfactory results of inspection from the Engineers, he left.

He thought that he really had a tiring day when he came back home.

He really felt very different at home as if it's not his. The house had a complete silence without any life. He had been alone before, but it wasn't that bad.

During dinner, when Samer tasted his meal he found the taste very familiar. His heart skipped a bit thinking about Ira was home. He got up from his chair and walked in a hurry towards the kitchen. He only saw a cook and no one.

"Did you make today's dinner?" Samer asked him .

Cook nodded his head in response.

He really felt disappointed.

Inside the bedroom, his vision was frequently falling on the place where Ira used to keep her luggage. But now it was empty and so was his heart.

He knew why he was feeling this way. It's just that he didn't want to admit it.

Ira knew that Samer was going to come for inspection. Thus she stayed far from him so that he couldn't see her while she herself was keeping a keen watch on him.

It was obviously difficult for her to stay away from her husband and not to worry about him. She prepared dinner for two persons. She packed it and delivered it secretly to the cook.

Thanks to her polite nature that the cook had a good impression of her and he agreed to give it to Samer.

Same series of days continued for both of them. It had already been a week and Ira hadn't come in front of him.

This event suddenly reminded him of his condition when he couldn't see Ira for almost two years.

For some reason he was having a very fluctuating mood. He seems to be little more irritated than usual. The aura around him has changed drastically that the employees are having bad time while facing him.