295. Old and conservative and paranoid

"Yes. Love is important. You said that many couples fall in love after marriage. But many couples fight to death and eventually divorce as well." Victor said and took a deep breath, contemplating whether he wanted to reveal anything further or not.

Eventually he decided that some things needed to be cleared up to avoid further misunderstanding.

"I won't hide my past from you. I have been married before. That too it was a love marriage. My wife was also a teacher at my school. But some gangster took liking in her. When he came to know that she was married, he directly came and shot her dead." Victor said everything expressionlessly, as if he was narrating someone else's story.

Grandpa kept quiet, unable to digest that Victor had such a past, and yet he was telling all this unemotionally, which showed how hard and cruel it would have been for him to turn this cold.