BORNO EMIRATE COUNCIL.

"I don't know if it's the food that is amazing or it is just because of the stunning beauties in front of me but I am so full." Tahir commented with the food close to his mouth but he kept staring at Suhayr angering Sa'eed further. He know he means no harm, he is a husband and can't help getting more jealous now.

He's been talking to his wife nonstop ever since their arrival even though Shaheed clearly told him she is off market. And second, he didn't get to be with her alone for he wanted to just have her rile him up or irritate him like she always does not now that she is not even giving him any attention and normally, she would want to annoy his life. The annoyance he's always hated is what he is craving at that moment, which comes along with her attention in the package.

Even though he don't want to sound like a whipped person, he knew he is entirely whipped by his crazy wife whom he has tried his very best not to fall for, look where he is now. Hopelessly and irrevocably in love with her, as crazy as that sounds even to a mad person, he can't resist. She has no charm or anything that could bewitch him, but even with her craziness and arrogance the size of Mount. Everest, he found himself head over heels. He is trying to form rational thoughts about why he is feeling what he is for his wife but it is blank, nothing could show up his heart or mind.

What he is feeling for Suhayr is different from what he felt for Najaah so many years ago and for a long time. He is definitely sure that what he felt for Najaah was love but Suhayr? There is this passion, ardor and zeal so intense that always takes up his being with just a mere stare at her talk less of having physical contact like they had cuddled that day. There is no doubt she has enjoyed their sleep that day in each other's arms too. The weather was chilly so having them wrapped and cocooned around one another is the best of moments. Like they say, weather for two.

He has felt that too and would want more of that.

"If you don't stop saying those things to your brother's wife, I will make sure you don't walk with your legs out of this place." Sulaiman narrowed his eyes at Tahir who gave a cheeky smile and went back to eating as if he didn't just threatened him, the guy never listens.

"Are you crushing on your cousin?" Suhayr nudged at Nafisa's shoulder who is sitting beside her on the dining chair and she makes it obvious by looking hypnotised by each word he spoke.

"W-What? No, I'm not crushing on no one." Nafisa blushed as she continue stuffing her face with kidney and liver sauce, boiled potatoes as the one meant to match.

"Don't lie to me now, sister in-law. I know when someone is crushing on the other so just tell me and no one will find out. I might as well try playing cupid for you, he seems cool." Suhayr teased again, her words dropping the interest she has in the topic and is totally happy to help.

"We will talk about this later but do something for me now." Nafisa whispered so lowly that Suhayr had to move closer to hear what she is saying. The rest of the occupants are talking without a care of the world but her sister in-law is still murmuring.

"What? I can give my life for anyone in love." Suhayr chortled at her own cheeky line, she wouldn't do that ever. This is Suhayr, she cares only about herself and no love story will change her mind.

"Can you get us to talk with everyone now? I usually don't hang around my cousins much due to school and everything." Nafisa murmured much more lower now, Suhayr almost hit her to ask her to talk much louder. No one is even paying attention on them, they are busy.

"So, Tahir! What are you doing now? I haven't seen you and Nafisa during my wedding though I know her excuse." Suhayr asked after taking a sip of her grape juice from her champagne flute. She likes putting everything to action, without playing around the bush.

"Oh, I was away in school and the wedding was so sudden that I couldn't come back on time. And yes, Naf, how are you doing now?" Tahir explained before moving his eyes to Nafisa who blushed a little but close it up with her own champagne flute as she took a sip of her fresh strawberry juice. Her eyes twinkled too, uh oh!

"I'm fine now, Alhamdulillah. And congratulations, heard you are done with college huh?" Nafisa is trying to make conversation, she is getting there pretty soon.

"That's great! I'm done and I can't tell you how happy I am..." They continue to talk so Suhayr tune them out and stared back at the other occupants of the room as they talk lowly amongst themselves, Thuraiya and Tasneem chirping in.

"What are you guys murmuring about now?" She asked, folding her arms underneath her chest because they are not adding her in on what is going on, her husband isn't talking though. He is doing something entirely different.

Wait, he is staring at her like he is in trance! What the hecking heck!

"We were just talking about your dare with the evil sister, Cinderella. Heard you already have more than two hundred subscribers in just a day?" Adam asked, dropping his fork to take a sip of his coco-cola straight from the can. It should be bad manners to any etiquette centered person like her husband but she is totally cool with it.

"Oh, it's in the blood. I am always going to win whether it's against your brother or his ex wife." She removed the invisible dirt from her shoulder earning laughs from the other people listening to her.

Sa'eed is just watching her every move as she try not to let his eyes on her make her squirm. He can't help it though, she looks so beautiful talking like that with his brother while trying to have his youngest sister talk to his cousin. He could see right through her now, maybe he didn't before because he don't have feeling for her or is it that they understand each other much more now? They even smiled at each other and laughed earlier in the morning so this has to mean something right? This means they are going somewhere right in future too huh?

It has to be, they are moving forward little by little.

"I can see that, your blood is mixed with victory. Can you help me with some?" Shaheed asked, his voice mocking but a smile is gracing his lips which elicits a narrowed eyes from Suhayr.

"If you play wrong with your sister in-law, you won't ever succeed. And like you just said, my blood has been meddled with victory so to follow my footsteps, you need to respect me." She sighed and gave him a stern glare which he saluted to, not at all tensed under his brother this time around, she noticed.

"I'm so bored here when I thought I would get off the tension and stress from office when I come here. Why don't we do something fun?" Mu'adh chirped in, he made sure what he has cooked up in his head has stretch out as he wants to, he can't afford to make any mistake. He has become Sa'eed's lawyer for a reason, meant to use every loop against the other victim.

"A game?" Adam suggested, his hands resting calmly behind him on the dinning chair. He does not look like a mean police, he looks like a relaxed father.

"Truth or dare!" Tahir suddenly chirped in out of nowhere startling them all which earned him a pinning glare but the guy being full blooded royal, he only smiled mischievously. He knows how much they hate the game for they have to remove wads of cash.

"That's a great idea!" Mu'adh hyped too, sitting down more straighter on the chair before he stood up as if changing his mind about it. "Let's go to the living room, it's more spacious and we can spin the bottle. Hey, get us a bottle!" He called out to one of the maids who was quick to move and made his way to the pure white living room and sat on the floor.

He looks so out of place wearing a suit and sitting on the floor.

"Let's go!" Tahir yelled with too much enthusiasm and followed the lane Mu'adh took seconds ago.

"Who is going first?" Shaheed asked when everyone finally sat down on the floor and Sa'eed is forced to sit on the couch because he won't sit on the floor like a homeless child, his words.

"I will!" Suhayr took the bottle from Shaheed and spin at once, it rolled around for awhile then stopped at Tahir and Adam.

"Truth or dare?" Tahir asked with a mischievous smile, he has already cooked his mischief well from what Suhayr could see. She will definitely enjoy the guy's company, no doubt.

"Truth." Adam narrowed his eyes making his voice deepen to that of a cop's as if he wants to scare Tahir from asking inappropriate question. He should've known better than threaten a fellow royal, they are all bulls.

"Amongst the women in this room, whom will you wed without the fear of her status?" Came Tahir's question and Adam's eyes instantly fell on Tasneem who is busy trying to remove a small stain of sauce from her pants.

"Uh, I'd rather face the consequences." He stuttered a little, taking his eyes off of her at the last minute when she rose her head to look at him straight in the eye. He felt guilty as if caught doing something formidably dreadful.

"Well, drop thirty thousand!" Nafisa crossed her arms over her chest with a stern look trying to support her supposed 'crush' with attitude. It did work, for the guy's eyes held respect.

"What? When did you become a money monger like this moron?" Adam's eyes widened seeing as his sister is dead serious about the money so he counted the thousand notes and dropped thirty on the mirror surfaced table.

"I dare you to kiss your wife in that powder room for three minutes without pausing, I can see from the camera but we won't watch." Mu'adh's ears yawed pink as he dared his best friend but he can't help it, the guy needs that push or he keeps slacking behind. Being with him for many years, he knows what he will and not do.

"What the hell?! Shouldn't this be inappropriate? I mean, we are not Americans or some..." Her words got stuck in her throat when Tasneem instantly chirped in with her loud annoying voice.

"No, we won't watch neither do we have any problem when married couple are romancing, it's something very common. Off you go, give 'em the fire!" She rocked, fist bumping her hand up in the air.

Sa'eed couldn't talk nor react to how their game suddenly yawed to him. He noticed that Mu'adh has been wanting to spin the bottle so he can dare hid wife which means he's been planning everything right before the game even started. Though there is nothing he wants to do than kiss his wife senseless in the powder room just ten feet away, he still is shy knowing there are people waiting for them just outside the door and could watch if they want to. Even if he backs out, he is damn sure Suhayr won't because of her record of making sure every dare is made by her not that he has he thought of backing out!

So with that thought, he stood up effortlessly from the couch and went to where she is which is the exact opposite then offered her his hand. He don't even know why he did that and she is also wondering from the look on her face, she is also trying to see why he is suddenly acting all weird and psychotic. He can't help it though, his instincts is just telling him what to do and his heart follows. Her eyes are now innocently looking up at his filled with questions, like she isn't the fiery person he dropped his weapons for.

Just look how life always plays tricks to mindsets, always changing!

"Why do I feel like you also want to kiss me?" She crossed her arms over her chest as she followed him to the powder white door they are heading to.

"And why do I feel like you won't put up a fight even if it wasn't a dare?" He shot his brow up in question, he is not about to back down and show his feelings to her just yet.

She'd probably ruin his family jewel in that room.

"I would have if it wasn't a dare, don't test by patience." She grumbled, yanking the door open with the right side of her body, the guy is incorrigible.

She wouldn't have put up a fight if it wasn't a dare, she wants to taste his lips again and again and see it ripen to that shade of red. And also because she enjoyed the sensation it brought, the zap of everything good that heighten her arousal and makes her skin tingle. Even the veins she thinks don't work anymore get to be electrified when they shared that one kiss. Just one kiss that changed her feelings and emotions, it makes her head go haywire. It changes her view to a lot of things in life, it shows just how much life needs to be appreciated with a loved one.

She wants to see if it was because of Najaah that she enjoyed the kiss just to make her jealous and pissed or if she genuinely enjoys it. She hopes it is not the latter though, she don't want to see the reality that will struck her harder than she wants. She's been sniffing around for signs of why she is coming down high horse of making him suffer. Her guards are breaking down so easily and faster than a power bike roaring past a smooth and clear road.

As soon as she locked the door behind her, he was quick to draw her to his body in this dominant way that will weaken any woman's knees, hers included. Her eyes widen for a split second before she release a naughty smile eliciting the same one from him like a mutual understanding before they permit their lips to meet halfway. His arms are now wrapped around her body down to her wide hips while her own shorter ones entangled themselves in his growing hair, tugging harshly at the soft curls. She moved her body impossibly closer to his, releasing an exaggerated moan.

Her mounds settling around his abdomen, he could feel how flushed she is and how she can't stop moving around him, pushing more of her softer curves to his body. Making sure he is feeling the soft contours. Slowly, he slipped his tongue out to play around her lips, coaxing her to open up and she did. Both of them feeling lightheaded but they proceed to French kiss like lovers out there. Teeth clashed, hands marveling through their bodies and he gripped her behind in his strong firm hands.

"Give me your tongue." He whispered and she did, he wheedled and cajoled her tongue, letting them play all the while deepening the kiss with more ardor. She felt like all the bad nerves are crucified and all she could feel is mystic exaltation. Then they jumped from each other hearing the loud knocks on the door.

"It's already nine minutes, you multiplied the time, great!" Mu'adh yelled from behind the door, his words muffled with amusement while the other laugh behind him.

Suhayr moved away from Sa'eed's arms while trying to arrange her hair and clothes in front of the mirror staring right back at them. She looks thoroughly ravished and so does he when she stole a glance at him. His eyes are dilated just like hers are, filled with nothing but forbidden lust and desire. Both their hearts are soaring out the sky, mingling and tingling into a sensation that have both their knees weak and jelly. They couldn't believe what just happened because they sure as hell knew they've left the world for a while back there. Her head is mushy, squishy and her brains are in form of granules, she is sure of that.

How did that happen though?

Suhayr can't remember having feelings for the man and it is said that if you don't have feelings for someone, you can't genuinely enjoy being in their arms talk less of sharing the same breath. Her heart is thudding loudly in her chest and she thought she doesn't have any. She is feeling a bit perturbed, constrained and stiff after sharing that implausible profound kiss with her husband. And just earlier, she is thinking about more way to annoy him and now things are turning out to be like this?

No, it can't be!

She can't have feelings for this man, not now or ever in the next lifetime!

"Well, that was intense." She commented, adjusting her veil perfectly like she did before she walked in then keep the kinks away from her clothes. She wants to act nonchalance, like her heart isn't palpitating and pulsing.

"Yeah, incredible also. Didn't know you were a great kisser. Kissed anyone before?" Sa'eed crossed his arms over his chest looking effortlessly handsome that it has her heart racing much more faster now.

He can't be so good looking, it should be illegal and a sin for someone to be this handsome. His lips looks thoroughly ravished which happened because of her, those damn butterflies again arrived in her belly at the thought. He didn't bother combing a hand through his hair seeing she's messed it all up and everyone would know she did it. Gosh, can he just look more presentable for the people outside? She is fiery but she is not shameless or immodest.

The way his eyes are studying her every move from the enormous mirror in front of them is making her go cuckoo with the need to have his now red and plump lips on her equally pinker and posh ones. He is making her feel everything she's forbidden herself to feel but the man don't even know about it. He looks calm but still ragged after such intense kiss they shared.

"You don't have to know about how many I've kissed. Can you adjust your damn clothes and hair?" She finally asked, trying to keep away from answering the question but also needing him to look good.

"No, till you give me a genuine answer." He shrugged when she gave him a hard glare.

Such a brute!