THE HEARTS REAWAKENING

34: DETRIMENTAL.

PROVINCE OF APULIA.
BARI, ITALY.

THE NICOLAUS, HOTEL.

Imad desperately tried to make his feet to stay rooted on the floor in the site, to help his friend look for the perfect place to set out their business -what they are there for- but he couldn't. Not after how Lateefa manage to goad him and push him into going to see Amirah. He didn't know when his feet capitulated and took him out of the site straight to hail a cab. He came with the whole team and can't exactly take the rented SUV and go back to the hotel for his own selfish reasons.

Besides, he can't tell them that he is going to see whether his personal assistant is faring well or not. That'd look suspicious to the people around them that knew about their past, he does not want that much attention. It's actually the last thing on his list, getting aired on things he is not sure himself. He won't stop blaming that stupid soft side that won't erase Amirah from their lives. He still does not love her like he did before, he is sure of that.

He made it to the hotel in a record time and quickly went to the floor he knew Amirah and her friends are in. He's made sure to know where she is just in case they need to work on something quick and it is just a floor below his and Salim's. He should've bought some eggs for her, she says it helps calm down the pain with lots of coffee too. Well, he can easily order it from room service if he gets there, he decided ruefully and continue his journey to their floor.

Just as the elevator opened right on their floor showing the rows of doors and read out room 201, he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw someone opening the door and coming out of it. And that person is not Amirah!

Nazir walked out of the room adjusting his shirt, walking straight to where Imad is, in the elevator without looking up so Imad took the chance and slip out of the elevator to a small corner where he is sure Nazir won't see him. He is busy redoing the buttons of his shirt anyway, he won't notice anyone there if from what he is thinking is exactly what has happened in that room with Amirah and Nazir. Why is he thinking so bad about this?

He pushed those dark thoughts from his head, Amirah is not like that. Or is she not? She's entirely changed from the person he's known, that is the main reason behind their failed marriage so why not? He was also like that after their divorce, a fucking womanizer and a drunkard. That almost took him to the brink of losing his own shits together had it not been for the greatest aid that came to him through his older brother, Shaddad.

He cannot be sure, he does not trust her at all to even think about her being so pious anymore. If anyone knows what she's done before that failed their marriage, they'd help him pat his back and comfort him. This doubt will keep building in his chest and there is no way he does not feel that they did something. Something happened inside that room, he is feeling it in his guts but don't know what to do about it. It is so strong that it constricted his pectorals in a weird way.

Did Nazir rape his personal assistant? That won't be the fact since he did not look like he's struggled to get what he wants.

Was she acting all sick so she can shackle up with this man she's been with? He knows about Nazir Jalo's reputation with women, just didn't know he was a womanizer and that Amirah will jump right onto him because his bank account is fat as his toe. They were on a date yesterday, maybe they are taking it to the other level like those non Muslim foreigners do? You can never know with this generation, they are always up to no good. And the fact that he's been through same thing, maybe that is why he is feeling all those things.

His heart thudded loudly in his chest, the avalanche of betrayal getting influx in his chest. Does he even have that right? They are not together anymore and he's used more women than he wished to count. This should be the scores settling right? But why does it feel like she just push through a dirk in his chest and twisted it messilessly? As though she is out for his blood this time around and not his heart.