Chapter 25 Ahmad

"I don't blame your wife, it is your evil that is haunting you. Are you even sure she's the one that is infertile and not you?" Rania said as she wrinkled one of her thick brows. "Are you?"

"Let's figure it out" I teasingly said giving her a sexy wink. I actually didn't mean it at all.

"Why do you like sex this much?" She eyed me.

"Hmm" I muttered with a slight smile on my face. "It depends on the people around me"

"So you are saying I am too hot?" She broke into a scornful laughter. "Yet you broke my heart!"

"I did that for the betterment of you, Rania" I said as I reached for her hands in the dining table. "If we had continued our relationship back then I might have gotten you pregnant at such early age, that was why I just... ended it"

"Silly excuse" She rolled her eyes. "I shouldn't have let you in... in the first place"

"Don't say that Rania, I swear I wanted marrying you after school but you were so angry with me that you ran overseas to study. You cut all ties with me, and on the verge of getting rid of you from my head I met Naziha" I said.

"And now she's gone for good!" She said.

"Point of correction, it is for a while not for good" I said in what seemed like a whisper.

"Like seriously?" She huffed. "Okay then!"

"Yeah, by the way your hands are warm" I said beaming at her.

"Hey, get your f* hands off me! I don't really trust you, Ahmad" She pulled her hands away.

"Hmm, why?" I queried.

"Because I once trusted you and it got me to no where. I won't try that mistake again" She said.

"Okay," I stood from the dining table with my hands up in surrender. "I will be in my room upstairs, I have a missed sleep to expiate"

"Suit yourself!" She said sipping her coffee.

I didn't blame her for whatever she was doing to me, I knew I was a bad boy and what I did to her in the past wasn't really good. I wished to make things right, I wished to make her happy so that she shouldn't die (someday) with my hatred in her heart. Of course I still loved her, she was the only one I could feel in my heart right now apart from Naziha. Albeit Humairah was also... I mean, yes, she was a good girl and a caring teenager!

...

The deadline of my parents' ultimatum was today and Naziha hadn't return back yet, her whereabout was still unknown to me. I was now left with no other option but to divorce her. Oh Allah, please don't let me do what I will later regret in my life. Ameen!

Rania and I drove to my parents' house and guess what? They were so happy to see her! You know, she had been overseas for so long. We chitchat and also poke fun before my father cleared his throat.

"Ahmad, have you heard anything about your wife's whereabouts?" He wrinkled a brow.

"Dad, I don't really think she's still in Nigeria. I heard she changed the money she stole from me into American currency and that tells me she hypothetically flew overseas" I explained.

"Shegiyar yarinya (useless girl), and that serves you right too!" My mother chimed into the conversation.

"Mum, we've talked about this already" I said.

"Yes we did, and now..." She said as she handed me a pen and paper. "I want you to issue a divorce to her. Write it down here, baby boy"

"Okay mum" I heaved a deep sigh as I gently collected the pen and paper from her. "Done!" I handed them back to her after having done what she asked me to.

"That's my baby boy" She smiled and gave me a peck on my forehead. "You did great today!"

"Bravo!" My father clapped his hands and then cleared his throat. "Now you are back to work"

"Thank you, dad" I huffed.

"You are welcome" He said and turned to Rania. "When are you going home?"

"It supposed to be today but I changed my mind. Ahmad needs someone by his side because he's weak. I will stay till he get married again" She said making me to turn to her with a wrinkled brow.

Did she even know what she was saying? Why would she just change her mind without consulting me? I had been resisting the urge of touching her ever since she arrived and now that I was happy she would be going she decided to stay? If she continue living with me then something might just happen in the end. Perhaps I should just marry her, or what do you think?

"Rania, what do you really mean?" My mother asked her.

"I mean..." Rania cleared her throat about to continue when my father intercepted her.

"If you both love each other we can just wed you, after all you are all Zaki by the way" He said wearing a broad smile on his face.

"Actually, that's not..." Rania was saying when I cut in.

"We need some time to think about it, dad" I said and turned to Rania. "Or what do you think?"

"Anything you say, Ahmad" She eyed me.

"Hmm" I huffed.

...

After spending hours in my father's house, Rania and I decided to drive back home. She was so quiet in the car and so was I until eventually I ended the silence. "People say if you love something you have to learn how to let it go, I don't believe in that bullshit until today. Naziha is gone, I know, and I ought to start a new beginning with someone I have feelings for, someone I love" I said as Rania snapped at me.

"And that person is definitely not me, Ahmad!" She said and continued. "All I want to do is to help you feel less lonely until you get the right person but you ended up tangling me in your f* web. I am very disappointed in you, you should have just told your father that we can't get married"

"But why, Rania? You are my first love and I still love you. God knows why your plane had emergency landing here and He alone knows why Naziha left. Probably, He wants me to make things right this time around. I had discarded the thought of marrying you before but when my father brought it up I knew I just have to do it"

"I believe in the adage that says, if you love a woman you will never violate her. You, Ahmad, you violated me thrice in the past and ever since I arrived you've been showing interest in my body again. All that makes me think you are only after my body, not love" She said and that made me pulled over the car in the roadside and turned off the engine.

"The adage you quoted is rubbish because being horny is not easy. A man that violates you and still wants to marry you truly loves you. Sex with the right person doesn't end love and love ends only when the heart fails to see a reason to keep holding on" I uttered and continued. "The first day I met Naziha, I had sex with her. It was in Brimstone. We did that many times before we got married, and I could still feel her in my heart. She wasn't virgin when I met her but I didn't care. That is what love is all about, not what playboys show their victims. A playboy will never wish to marry the girl he slept with!"

"Hmm, I am sorry you are the horny type" She said.

"It's okay, just accept me back please" I pleaded.

"Okay, but if you truly love me and want to marry me then promise me that you will never break my heart again" She calmly requested.

"Rania," I said taking her hand into a warm clasp. "I hate making promises but In Shaa Allah (if God will) I will not break your heart again" I assured her.

"Okay in that case I forgive you" She said.

"Thank you!" I drew closer to her and kissed her her on her lips. "I love you, Rania" I said.

"I... I love you too, Ahmad" She said.