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Mary starts humming a song and she glances up at Edna. Edna is just sitting there with a sad expression on her face. " Won't you like to help me?" Mary asks. Edna is startled that she jumps up from her seat and takes the knife that Mary is handing to her. She adjusts her arms and looks down at the half-chopped spring onions, she has never been more clueless. Maybe it's just anxiety. "Um, how would you like me to chop them?" She asks. " However you want to do them. " Mary is by the cooker. She is lighting it and placing a pan over the blue flames.Edna flexes her fingers a bit and picks back the knife. She arranges the onions again and slowly starts to chop them. It takes her back home to when she cooked with her mum while her father was working in his shop. Her brother was away in his mechanic workshop and so it used to be only them. Her mother would tell her romantic stories of how she met her husband and Edna would listen with a smile on her face. She used to think that she
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Edna lays on her bed with a piece of tissue crumbled in her fingers. She has been staring into the emptiness in front of her for a long time and that's been her behavior for some days now. From the very moment, Malik told her that Keith wasn't ready to let her go, that was the beginning of her horror. Why? What does he still want from her? He has told her, times without number, that he hates her and would kill her if he has the chance so what she doesn't understand is what he still wants from her.Maybe he just wants her to be his forever, but the thing is that she can't even think of spending the rest of her life as his wife. She rolls over and lays on her tummy, pain shoots up from her tummy straight to her head, and she winches. She hasn't eaten for days, and she doesn't have an appetite, but she has been careful so that Malik and Mary won't find out. How can she eat knowing that Keith is doing everything in his power to make sure that she remains with him? Is she going to be
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Edna starts at the lady for so long that she starts to get uncomfortable. She looks behind her, maybe there is something there, but nothing. She waves her hand in front of her face, but Edna isn't responding. "Hello?" She stares at Edna. " Ma'am, are you okay?"" He is not my husband. " Edna simply says. "What?" " He is not my husband ." Edna raises her voice in a bid for the lady to hear her this time around. It's a wrong move as Emily interprets it to be her being hostile. "I'm sorry. " She pulls her laptop closer to herself. " He didn't say he was your husband, I was the only one who assumed. "" Well, he is not. " Edna stands. She doesn't know why, but she is a bit offended that the lady thinks she is married to Malik. *****After the lady leaves, Edna doesn't go back to brooding about herself. She is now burdened with sorting the clothes that have been bought for her. Her wardrobe is too small and the result is that the whole room is covered in clothes and she still hasn'
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Mister Jackson is already in the sitting room waiting for them. He is reading through a newspaper as he waits. Edna and Malik walk in and he smiles. He shakes hands with his son and hugs Edna with a happy expression on his face. Edna is not expecting this at all. The main reason why she didn't want to come is that she thought that the hostility towards her would be overwhelming. Why is Mister Jackson being so friendly? Why is Keith behaving as if he wants her?Malik pulls out a chair for her and she sits. He does the same too and just as they settle down, Keith stumps into the room. There is something angry and mean about his walking and the way he briefly greets his father before he loudly pulls a chair to sit down. Edna ignores him, pretending to be more interested in the silverware that is before her than her tantrum-throwing husband. Malik is right beside her and she feels the warmth of his hand on her knee as he gives it a light squeeze. Her face is down but she smiles, sh
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Edna is sitting down at one of the tables closest to the window and she watches as tiny droplets of water roll on the glass and tickles down till it disappears. She does that for so long that by the time she looks up at Malik again, he has drunk almost half of his coffee and she is yet to even take a sip of hers. She prefers to keep her fingers around the cup and even though it burned to some extent, the stinging feeling is gone now and it's just warmth to her fingers now. She doesn't even realize that she has this gloom on her face or how much she is just drifting off in her thoughts until Malik says something. " Is something wrong with the coffee, Edna?" He lightly touches her finger to get her attention. " It has lots of creams, just the way you like it. "Yes, she has noticed that he knows that about her. He knows the littlest details about her and that's not just something he picked up from the few days that she has been seeking asylum in his house. He knows her favorite fla
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Early the next morning, Malik and Edna are at the airport to catch their flight. This time around there are no assistants anywhere and that means that they have to carry their bags themselves and have to wait in line like everyone else. It's stressful, yes, but at least they are not being recognized easily. No bodyguards and assistants mean that little or no attention would be paid to them and they are enjoying it. Edna is wearing a flower dress and a stylish hat is on her head together with some fancy glasses that sit at the bridge of her nose. Malik is dressed in jeans with a leather jacket and a baseball hat. To any person, they would look like a couple going on vacation and nothing gives off their identity as members of an elite family. When it gets to the time to check in, they both move towards the check-in desk towards the man who is dressed behind the desk. He gives them smiles as they give him the details for him to check them in. It gets tensed up when the smile slowl
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Malik doesn't know why he said what he said. He knows that Edna was surprised too because of the shocked stare she gave to him. He didn't mean to make her feel uncomfortable, he just wanted to put the woman in her place and although it worked, Edna doesn't say a single word to her. The plane lifts off the ground and it has been hours since they have been flying and not a single word has he said to her. Yeah, maybe that wasn't a very smart thing he did there, he told the woman that he would fuck her and he didn't know it would scare her so much. He lays his head against the headrest and tries not to think about what he has done so much. He glances at her, contemplating if he should apologize now or wait till they get to Rome first. Edna falls asleep after they have had lunch on the plane and her head falls against his shoulder. It took him by surprise the first time because even though she did it unconsciously, he still feels it's a good sign that shows that maybe she has forgive
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Edna heaves in relief when he returns her kids and presses his hands around her waist. Thank God that he is playing along. Mister Leonardo laughs with delight and claps his hands as if he has just witnessed a long-awaited happy ending. " I like this. " He beams. " I love to see young people in love because I wasn't privileged to do so. "Edna smiles and leans against Malik who chuckles nervously. "I'm going to have to find a more befitting ring. " Malik scratches his hair. "Oh, baby. "She touches his neck. " I don't care for any ring, all I want is for our love to last forever. "Mister Leonardo is beaming even more than them. He wants to say something, but a man in a black suit comes and whispers something to him. "My dear friends, I have to go now because I have dinner arrangements with some people. " He sounds sad. " But we are going to be meeting tomorrow and I am looking forward to that. Please bring the gorgeous Edna with you, I can't wait to speak some more to her.""It's
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