Y A S M I N

"I almost forgot, I'm here to tell you something," he said sitting on the empty space beside me.

"Okay, then I'm all ears"

"Here," he said handing me an envelope. I stared at the white envelope in confusion.

"What's inside?"

"Open it and see for yourself" I tore the lid.

"Tickets?" I said taking out the tickets.

"Yeah, it's for us, we're going on a vacation," he stated tight-lipped.

"To my hometown?" I access the ticket, not believing my eyes. Marwan taking me on a vacation and that to my hometown. Before I could realize it, I find myself lunging my arms around Marwan's neck.

"Ya Allah, I'm so happy thank you so much" I grinned, he encircled his arms around me too, tightening his hold, as if he's afraid I will disappear.

"I thought that it will be best to spend some time together with Amir, and I think why not go to your hometown. I know you're missing your family."

"How sweet of you" he pulled apart, cupping my face with his palms. "You know, I will do whatever that will make you and Amir happy. Both of you are very important to me" I saw a glint of emotion in his eyes, something tells me he's telling the truth.

"Can I ask you something?" I said, staring right back into his eyes. He nodded.

"Do you like me?" he was surprised by my question but I needed to know how he feels about me after all his kindness he showed me.

"Do you really have to ask, can't you see it in my eyes. I'm not good at expressing my feelings, but whenever I'm with you I feel comfortable, and when we're not together I can't seem to stop thinking about you. You made me think about you in any possible way, your kind heart and good intentions made me drawn to you. I feel something I've never feel before even with Amirs Mom, I know I'm not supposed to talk to you about my past wife but I'm telling you this from the bottom of my heart. You're very important to me more than you can imagine. I don't know what to call it, be it like or love, I just know that I want to be with you, I want us to spend the rest of our lives together. Me, you and our kids." I was short of words. This man has made me speechless with his words, I have never imagined I will find myself getting married to Marwan and that I will fall in love with him but I think we're destined to be.

"Ya Allah, why the tears? what happened?" Marwan added wiping the tears off my chin. I didn't even know I'm crying, I'm so happy right. words cannot express how I feel. One thing I'm certain of is that I love Marwan. I love him so much.

"What did I do to deserve you Marwan"

"Your kind heart paid off and also my good intentions towards you" he placed a lingering kiss on my forehead. "I told you before that I don't want to see you in tears again, we have so much to pack" he added, moving off the bed.

"Wait what about my work and yours?"

"Nothing to worry about, It had been taken care of" before I could react to his words, he left the room. I squeal in enthusiasm. What should I start with? Call sis Farah? or Surprise them. All this thought dead down when the door flung open.

"Come down for breakfast," he said closing the door again. Not wasting any more time I followed behind him as my stomach is making an unusual sound.

"What's for breakfast today?" I asked making myself comfortable on the dinning.

"Crepe with cabbage sauce"

"Wow it looked Nice." taking a bite of it, I closed my eyes tasting the sweetness.

"You know, I've been meaning to ask you. where did you learn how to cook such delicious dishes?" A small smile made it way out of his lips.

"When I was I kid, I used to help Mom in the kitchen a lot."

My lips form an 'O' "That means you learned from your mom."

"Exactly"

"Masha Allah what of your brother?" I asked suddenly getting curious about his family.

"Don't even talk about him. He doesn't even know how to boil water, talk less of cooking" I laughed at his statement.

"I really like how you get along with your family excluding Naila" I frowned remembering how she treated her mom that day.

"Its because we're well brought up by our Mom and since Naila isn't our real step-sister, her personality is different" So Naila isn't her real daughter. I nodded my head in understanding.

"Now eat your food, let me go get Amir, he slept so well today because of the medications"

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"How are you Yasmin, since you didn't bother to call me," Matilda said.

"I'm sorry Matilda I wanted to call you but it slipped off my mind, how are you?"

"I'm fine, Linda told us you're on leave. Is everything alright?" I could sense the concern in her voice.

"Yeah everything is fine, I'm visiting my hometown that is why"

"Oh, that's a good idea, so when are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow"

"So soon?, I wish you a safe journey, when you reach there don't forget to call me"

"Sure". After we're done talking with Matilda, I got back to what I was doing packing my clothes. The door opened and Marwan enters.

"Ya Allah, are you still packing," he said sarcastically.

"What do you mean?" I rolled my eyes.

"You've been packing for the past one hour, I'm done packing mine and Amir's"

"Okay, why don't you help me then" I pouted getting a chuckle from him.

"And what's funny"

"I love seeing your fake pouts, it's really cute" Okay I think my heart is about to burst open. Whenever Marwan said something romantic, my heart beats more than it normally does.

"Look at how you're blushing by this mere words" taking a step towards me, he lowered his face to mine, closer enough that I could feel his breath.

"What if I say something dirty, you know.." placing my palm on his hard chest, I pushed him farther away from me. his lips erupt into a fit of laughter. My husband has a dirty thought in his head.

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Assalamu Alaikum,

How are y'all doing? How was the Chapter? First of all, I want to apologize for not updating for a while, I've been working on Something.

I'm sorry to say this, but this book will be taken down in the next two days. I'm not deleting it completely, Nah I'm not that wicked😇. I'm just taking it off Wattpad.

It will be posted on another site called Sofa novel. I'm signing a contract with them, and I have to take it down from Wattpad as per the rules.

I hope you guys will support me as always🙂 I will provide the link when it's up on the site. I know the notice came at a die minute but I promise to make it up to you. I will continue updating my other book or if you want I can start writing a book about Marwan's brother, that is Sa'ad. I've been planning it already.

I'm so sorry and Thank you for reading my book up to this stage🙏

If you have any suggestions feel free to PM me.

Thank you
~Yours Zaynab🌹

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