THE HEARTS REAWAKENING

36: AVERIL.

IN THE PLANE.

There are times where all you want to do is merge with the thing closest to you and look as invisible as you can be, that is how Amirah felt sitting on the plane beside Imad. No questions, she didn't know how they ended up sitting close to one another but it just happened which reminds her a lot of what has happened to them three years ago. They were young adults sitting close to one another excited to start their honeymoon in a foreign country.

Only for it to yaw into an obsidian disaster!

Right in front of them is a woman in her late twenties talking animatedly with Imad. Since it is business class, the chairs are facing one another so they can easily interact with each other. She had no idea where Lateefa and Kamilah ran off to after they boarded the plane so she was forced to sit beside Imad. That is close to a nightmare since he only acknowledged her with a nod of his head. No Ms. Adam.

She heard Imad's deep chortle and immediately clench her thigh together. Oh God, she has missed that sound that makes her heart hijack. Seriously, how did she live so long without him and his bad sense of humour? She has no idea but one thing she is now sure of is, she never stopped loving her ex husband. It was just the distance doing the trick for her and now that he is close, she cannot help it.

The other woman she grasped her name as Averil snorted out a laugh too, totally keeping any ladylike etiquette and useless protocols. She is really beautiful too, makes Amirah wonder why she got into Imad at first sight. Granted, Imad had always managed to raise the flag whenever he is around a woman, that is just how he is. Or maybe because of the royal blood flowing through his body? It makes him confident and stand out all the time, it extracts attention from all the species there to him. It comes naturally with him.

Averil stood tall around five ft eight, her long blonde hair that looks to be made of bottle is tied in a cute ponytail, allowing tendrils to roll down the sides of her oval shaped sexy face. Her eyes are light brown, remind you of caramel and they are also warm. It perfected her tan skin though it does not look natural too. She looks naturally pale and the tanned skin is from sunbathing and other bottle stuff rubbed all over to darken it.

All over, Averil is gorgeous and pretty that could pass up as a model. From the bits of their conversation, she heard that she was a model before she quitted. She stopped listening when she got jealous of how close she seems to be talking with Imad and how comfortable she looks. Why is everyone just close to her boss and just not her? What do they have that she doesn't?

'A vermin heart filled with onyx peril, sweetheart' Amirah shut down her inner voice, not willing to backtrack into the past when she just gave hers

"You know, heartbreak is a bitch." Amirah heard Averil started so she meandered her whole attention to her, keeping her enviness and jealousy aside. Looking at her again leaning against the window in the plane, she looks like the kind of women Imad would go after. It makes her feel plain all over again, dammit!

She has tried stopping her mind from reeling such things in her head because she does not want to be insecure in her own skin. How they just ruin that all the damn time because of Imad? Is it because he was the one who carved her out from those damned thoughts and made her feel beautiful?

'More reasons to depose yourself'

Amirah concentrated, wanting to hear what Imad's reply will be to heartbreak being a bitch. Would he admit to the love he once had for her or brush her off again?

Instead, he gave a small smile to Averil, watching her slumped expression and said. "Been through one?"

Amirah held back an exasperated breath! He always manage to do this thing time and time again. He is blocking their past without even struggling to do so, it is effortless and sometimes she thinks he is not the Imad she was with. All the seams illuminating through their past is blocked by him. He is recalcitrant, she's always known that but didn't know to what extent. She does now!