Fore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com

More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comLOVE IS EXCEPTION MAKING 241increasingly frosty after this revelation, which Blumenthal immediatelytransmitted to her. Still she said nothing publicly. She and Nathanappeared on their way to refiguring a new and more distant relationshipas colleagues and business partners. The Collective could sense the tension,but none understood the full dimensions of what was happeningin their upper stratum.It was Barbara Branden who finally called off the charade. The letterof half-truths had done little to ease the pressure under which bothBrandens lived. Haggard and sickly, Nathan was deteriorating dailyunder the weight of his lies. He had told Barbara about Patrecia, makingher complicit in both his affair and his rationalizations to Rand. AsRand began to shift her allegiance to Barbara, she was struck by a deepguilt. In August, when Rand announced she planned to make Barbaraher legal heir in place of Nathan, she could stand it no more. Barbaragave Nathan an ultimatum: it was time Ayn knew the whole truth,including the complete history of his relationship with Patrecia. If hecouldn’t tell her, she would. With a sense of fatalistic relief, Nathan gavehis ex the go-ahead.It was the worst and most violent of Rand’s many breakups. WhenBarbara told her the full story of Nathan’s relations with Patrecia,Rand was white-hot with fury. She summoned Nathan, cowering in hisapartment several floors above. Barbara, Frank, and Allan Blumenthalwaited with her. When Nathan arrived, Rand blocked him from the livingroom, seated him in her foyer, and unleashed a torrent of abuse. Hewas an impostor, a fake. She would destroy him and ruin his name. Ina crescendo of rage she slapped him hard across the face, three times.Nathan sat motionless, absorbing her words and her blows. Years laterhe and Barbara remembered her parting words verbatim: “If you havean ounce of morality left in you, an ounce of psychological health—you’ll be impotent for the next twenty years! And if you achieve anypotency, you’ll know it’s a sign of still worse moral degradation!” 63 Thenshe ordered him out of her apartment. It was the last time the two wouldmeet.Rand’s anger was boundless. She would never forgive, never forget.More than the fury of a woman scorned, it was the fury of a womanbetrayed. For nearly five years, Nathan had lied to Rand about his feelingsfor her and his relationship with Patrecia. Their hours of intense