the sin of envy

Mothers

On the same day in the middle of a house in the badia.

"Ting a cat" is the sound of knocking on the door.

"O God, who would come at this hour to see?" said the woman who was washing in the pots in the middle of the kitchen that lay in the salon. She left what was in her hand, wore her khamar, and then went on to open the door.

"EIliev! My daughter, how are you?

"I'm not okay, Mom."

"Get my house in."

"Don't leave the door without a lock like this, Mom.

"Who's going to enter our house? And what will he find in it? "Except for two old people."

"Let him have a key at least. Where's my grandmother?

"Inside, you pray, sitting, because of her back pain."

EIliev waited over a chair in the middle of her grandmother's room to complete a prayer.

"Accept God, Grandma."

EIliev kissed her grandmother's hand and embraced her.

"You smell like musk, granddaughter."

The mother helped to carry the grandmother and put her to her bed. Everyone sat together in the middle of grandma's warm room in an atmosphere of longing. They talked long.

The mother and daughter were cooking in potatoes.

"Sit down with my daughter and have some food."

"What about my grandmother?"

"I'll take it."

"The fish is a good one."

"Mom?"

"Yes."

"What's my aunt's news?"

"Any news, they used to come in summer and holidays. Why?"

"I came to mention it and Aguan and I decided to ask you."

"They said she had breast cancer. Ah.. Does God leave a slave who eats haram from the judgment?

"We talked about my aunt Warda as well. You're still reading her stamp every Ramadan?"

"Yes, every Ramadan and sometimes leisure"

"Didn't you talk too much about my aunt? There's nothing to talk about? Why would her husband do such a thing?"

The mother started crying over her dead sister, and EIliev got up to give her a baby.

"Sorry, Mom," she embraces her mother.

"Her devil husband... Ah.... He lost everything he had in gambling, then this impure drunk was bragging and saying ,I can't support my children. Ah.... One night, ... My sister and her two daughters were killed.... she... Here... He was supposed to take care of them, not kill them... I'd take care of them like my daughters.

"How old were they?"

"Ring was eight years old," he said. And Shorouk was in the fourth... Ah..."

"Oh, Mom, when I spoke, I made you cry after a long absence. Please don't cry, get food and go next to my grandmother. It's a deal.

It's a deal.

I didn't tell him I was leaving the house.

The mother entered grandma's room, and EIliev picked up her phone and called Joseph.

Youssef sits in his office at the hotel drinking in black tea when his phone rang. He carried him to see who the caller was, and when he saw his son's killer calling, he didn't answer, he didn't refuse to call, he just put his phone in front of him and he continued drinking tea.

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