This chapter is dedicated to my husband for encouraging me and motivating me to write and even thou I said iam not in the mood he reminded me of my readers and your encouraging comments. so here u go all the patient readers of MHM. You all owe this to my husband! hahaha.. just kidding.
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Rihab Yunus was in the midst of clouds and as the altitude increased.. he felt his heart dropping. leaving his 'jigar ka tukda(Love of his life)' and going far away. He clenched his fist and took a deep breathe closing his eyes reminding himself that she did not love him, let alone liking him as her husband. He should not miss her this way. he kept repeating this thought in his mind, only to fail vulnerably.

Sighing he took out his mobile and texted her even though he knew their wouldn't be any response from the love of his life. His heart.

There wasn't any reply because of the network issues but still he hoped she might ring him up after a while.

He was yearning for her so much that he was feeling like taking a flight back  home and be in his wife's arms right after he landed on the Airport.

but that was just a sweet sad dream.

He didn't know when would that time come when Safina mehek would be waiting for her whole heartedly and would leapt into his arms. Rihab couldn't help but pray for her to acknowledge his love. his longingness.
It wasnt like he did not know under what circumstances they got married. but dil toh bacha hai na!?( Heart is still childish, right!?)

After getting off his office work and meeting some of his client it was almost a day and he had slept only two hours and there wasn't any calls from his Wife.

He closed his eyes as he raked his fingers through his disheveled hair as he walked over to the fridge and took out the milk.
gulping down the cold milk to ease his hunger he ordered food from his favorite restaurant and closed his eyes for a moment, his phone beeped a reminder which said that he was supposed to call back his parents.

Assalam alaikum," Came his father, Yunus's greeting. "how are you beta?"

"Alhamdulillah daddy, how about you?"

"All is fine by God's grace dear, what made you leave in so much hurry?"

Yunus's voice was stern as if he did not appreciate his untimely departure.

"Dad..." Rihab trailed off with a sigh.

"Had lunch?" Asked Rihab changing the topic.

"Yeah, Your mom is napping, she isn't able to sleep at night!" Yunus said with sadness lacing his tone.

Rihab knew why that was. Her eldest son was married.

JUST MARRIED and the whole house seemed like it was mourning something.

A tragedy perhaps?!

but Nikah's are meant for happiness!
togetherness of two souls.
An occasion that was supposed to be joyous.

Rafiya, his mother had so many desire and dreams for her son's marriage and for her daughter in law.

but Allah had something else in store for them. Indeed Allah has said "With every hardships ther is ease"

And Rihab yunus was ready to wait for that "Ease"

Be it sooner or maybe later!

It had been a week since Rihab yunus had left and Safina was'nt talking to anybody much.
she had just returned to her in laws home.
well, she still did not feel like that because she is in denial. she would rather think of herself as a gues in her besties home than being confronted as a Daughter in law.

She was very much thankful for Rafiya had given her that space. but she often found her looking at her with so many questions in her eyes. and Safina wasnt ready to answer them,yet!

You know you always slide off that Mail notification because it's always from a random app like Myntra, Nykaa, jabong or even firstcry which Safina had downloaded to buy clothes for kinza's baby boy.

As usual she was sliding it off when the very familiar name caught her attention and made her to open the mail. there were so many mails from Rihan yunus and her heart skipped a beat seeing his name and she started sweating profusely as if Rihab yunus was in front of her.

she kept her mobile aside, took a deep breathe and walked out of her room. their room.

She wandered around the house paying attention to those little details which she had ignored all these years because she was just like that. not paying attention to materialistic things.

But her mind couldn't stop wondering why he had mailed her even though he did had her WhatsApp number and he had texted her Last week once. she was at first disappointed that Rihab had not called her.

she kept getting flashback of what she had caught glance in that few second..  "To my one true love..."

She did not want to read it, yet her heart was forcing her to open that damn mail and read his heart out. and she did exactly that.

frustrated she walked up the stairs in a hurry only to bump in to her sister in law.

"sorry sorry... " Fiza exclaimed rubbing her shoulder while safina too did the same.

"Its okay, I was just in a hurry!" Safina mumbled as she  walked past her ignoring fiza's teasing look.

"Hmmm.. video call? maybe!" Fiza thought with a wave of her hand and walked off while
safina entered her room in a hurry, her heart beats thudding so loud, she could literally hear them.

she opened his mail as she sat on the bed and for some unknown reason she felt satisfied even before reading his mail.

"To my one true love, Assalam alaikum Mehek."

I feel so full of love for you today that I just had to express my feelings.

hope you are doing good! you might be wondering why I have mailed you instead of just sending a WhatsApp text.

truth is I do not want to make you feel uncomfortable nor do I want to put in a dilemma where you have to force yourself to reply me.

I really missed you. I mean iam really missing you.

sorry for saying that out of nowhere but I really do. you are all that I could think of since the day we got married and more since I left you and came here.
sorry for thinking about you without your permission;)
but you know, my heart isn't listening to me. my hearts wants what's its desires.

And even in my dreams you are there, again apologies for dreaming about you without permission but hey its Halal now? ;) isn't it Mrs.Safina Rihab Yunus??

Take care of yourself and everyone at home.

I will be back whenever you miss me.

Assalam alaikum. 

it was a short letter but it was sweet enough to make her heart beat flutter like a butterfly flying on it's own.

she was feeling caged a few moments ago but after reading his letter she felt happy like a bird that had found its abode after a tiring day.

She smiled to herself for a few minutes before the brutal flashbacks came gushing down her memory lane and with a taunting laugh she kept her phone on her dressing with a loud thud and walked off to washroom for ablution to pray Asr.

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A/N:

Assalam alaikum everyone.
This chapter has been in my drafts for like more than a month.. but I wanted it to be long hence I delayed the update but I thot I will update this coz as I always say something is better than nothing!

So how was the chapter?

Rihab letter was so endearing?right.
I know it was pretty short but I have few letters lined up for u all.

Do you wanna see more of Rihab's love letters or Rihab himself??

Also let me know who you all imagine Rihab and Safina as??

And if you have any ideas wch u want me to pen down for RiSaf then you can drop in ur ideas in comments ... I will definitely include them in my stories..

in shaallah.

P.s. sorry for the super short chappy... but my lifes been on a roller coaster wch doesnt seem to stop. Hope you are all doing good and with ease in ur lives.

Remem this humble author in ur dua's. 

Take care
#stayAwesome