Diana RodriguesMy heart clenches at the thought of Zyan. I am inside a hurricane and being thrown everywhere. The message made me very sad and Aslan understood."Is something wrong, Diana?""No, everything is fine."A lot of food was on the table waiting for us, a mix of foods from Brazil and from Kudsi. He was very thoughtful to take care of it. Everything was very tasty. After dinner we went to bed, he took a clean sheet and put it on the bed. I was red with embarrassment, but we didn't touch the subject for the moment. We watched a movie, actually I did, because he was on the computer working and read so many pages that I was dizzy just looking at them.I ended up sleeping and I don't know what time he fell asleep, in the middle of the night I opened my eyes and he was hugging me close to my body, and I snuggled in, I wanted to keep that day in my mind. I know that even though I was married to Aslan, I could not create expectations, and I should live one day at a time and not fall
Diana RodriguesThere wasn't a part of my body that wasn't hurting. When I woke up I was lying on the bed in Aslan's room when I woke up, I think I hit my head. In fact, it was hard to tell what I hadn't hit when I got off balance and fell down the stairs as I saw Zyan downstairs along with my husband."Zyan?", I put my hand to my head, "I think I'm having hallucinations.""You are not having hallucinations, I am here and so are you," Zyan tells me."Lemi where do you guys know each other from?", Aslan asks with a scowl on his face."Who is Lemi?", the knock must have affected my head."My brother, Lemi Zyan. And I wonder, where do you two know each other from?""Zyan, is he your brother?" I am incredulous."What is happening here my brother? Maybe you can explain better since Diana is confused" now my husband looks furious."I met Diana at the hotel" his eyes conveyed sadness "She was crying in the corridor, and I asked what happened.""After you humiliated me in your room.""She loo
Aslan MurabakAs soon as we left the room we headed for the office. Bern and her father were like a plague from Egypt, attached to my family. I know Faruk would not stop until he got what he wanted, his eyes on me all the time, as if to say I will win.Lemi was strange, my brother was in love. The Brazilian girl really got to him.Which makes me afraid because I have never seen my brother like this."My brother, are you okay?""Yes, I am.""Is it the Brazilian girl? What did she do to make you like this?""She chose to be with another man, my brother. Someone better than me. Someone who will be better for her.""How do you know that?""I saw her with him. And the two of them seem to get on very well, I hope she'll be happy.""She doesn't know what a wonderful man you are, or she would have chosen you," I put my hand on her shoulder "Sometimes it's not meant to happen, it has happened to me," I look at Bern, "I went to see it after a long time, that she wasn't for me.""That's not the
Aslan Murabak"My son, what will we do in this situation?", Papa finally understood my situation, "Faruk might try something against you, accuse you in an honour killing.""I don't know how we will do it, I am only sure that I will not marry that woman. I might pay someone to marry her or I might pay someone to leave here and never come back.""Things won't be easy, Faruk won't come out at a loss, of that you can be sure. Your marriage was a sure thing, since you were children. Bern is a princess, and this will bring problems for us.""Dad, I'm not getting married, I'm already married.""In a legal way, he can't marry Bern. His marriage to Diana," my brother takes a deep breath as he explains to Papa, "Their marriage, has a clause that nullifies, any other marriage for my brother, and we can't do anything about it.""You thought of everything didn't you, Aslan? You prepared so that nothing would happen to you, because you were going to know that I was going to force your marriage on B
BernThis time I would be able to tell someone what had happened to me. The moment I spoke to my brother, my father came to my side. And whispered:"If you say anything, to your brother, I will kill you, and you know I am capable of that. I'll make your life a living hell, you worthless piece of shit.""You already make my life hell, Daddy," my father held my arm tightly."I'm serious with you girl," this time he alters his voice and everyone looks at us."I'm not afraid of you anymore.""Stop it idiot girl. You know it was all for your own good.""Are you afraid daddy, afraid people will know, of what you did to me?" he holds my arm tighter, but I wait for my saviour to help me."Bern, my sister, is something happening?" Hassan appears from my side.Hassan knew him very well too. Papa knew that my brother would step into his shoes as ruler of our country, as his firstborn had to learn to be a man, a true male tyrant, just like him.My brother went at a young age to the army and never
Aslan MurabakThe two brothers entered the room and stayed there for quite a while, my father was meeting with Faruk, and probably the man was doing his head in, but my father already knew that he had nothing to do and that unfortunately Bern would have to go on with her life in another way. Despite everything, I felt sorry for her.My brother was also strange, I knew him very well and knew that something was happening or that he was hiding something from me. I was almost sure it was for the Brazilian girl and what was I going to tell him? Will she come back to you? Will she realize that she made the biggest mistake of her life and that she chose the wrong man? That she's the stupidest woman I've ever met for leaving a man like you and choosing any other? I wasn't going to tell him that, because I know he was already suffering.So I preferred to leave him in his world, with his thoughts, whatever they are. I was sitting in one of my favourite places in the house, a small room with a h
Hassan KaranI had come here for change. I had decided it was my turn to give my own life direction. When Bern calls me and tells me that our father was forcing a marriage on her with Aslan, I was very angry. I did not want this marriage to happen at all.We were children different from the others, many things I went through alone and didn't take my sister with me, the poor one was already suffering because we didn't have a mother. Actually, we did have a mother, but she simply did not care about us two, her children. We were at the mercy of that crazy man who did whatever he wanted with me and my sister. I saw horrible things inside that palace and now I find out that my sister, Bern, went through worse things.I was sent to the army, after I caught him making a girl of my age, concubine of some of the men who frequented our house. Days later, to my surprise I was suffering in the barracks horrible things, to become a real man. I still remember the words that were said to me when I s
Aisha MurabakEver since I was a little girl I knew my destiny. I know I will have to marry someone I probably won't choose, I don't like that, I just wanted to have the power to guide my life.When I went to college that I had my freedom, there I got to live as a girl from another country lives and it was a totally different experience. I won't deny that sometimes I went out without the veil, I put on jeans and a little shirt and let my hair down for a few hours. I felt strange at first I can't deny it but I was a free girl who could do what she wanted with her life.I keep a secret, just mine, something that few people know and I'm afraid of the consequences.I was in Diana's room, the conversation was so good. Knowing about their country and being able to talk freely is invigorating for me. Diana was a little bruised from the fall she had taken on the stairs, and we should thank Allah, that something worse didn't happen to her, because she could have been hurt more. When my two br