Yours, truly

Chapter 18

24 years ago:

"Nare is the woman I am going to marry anne. And I won't let you or anyone stand in our way!!" Ahmet, Eda's father screamed at his mother who was looking at him angrily.

"That woman is not fit for you. I won't let her disgrace our family's name. Why don't you understand that?" Semiha answered, punching the table with her closed fists.

"Anne, you either accept this marriage or you won't get to see my face again. Either way, I'm marrying her. I love her. And I won't let your disgusting, crazy need to be in control to stand in the way of our love. I won't!!!" Ahmet exclaimed angrily as he stood up to his mother.

"It is either me or her then." Semiha threatened as Ahmet lowered his eyes to the table, his voice breaking. "You or them, anne. It is not just the two of us anymore, Nare is pregnant with our child."

"PREGNANT? Is it even yours?" Semiha asked, raising her voice at her son to show how against it she was.

"As sure as the air I breathe. That's why anne, I choose them. I choose my family. And I won't ever forgive you for what you did to her, how you humiliated her, how poorly you treated her. Never." Ahmet added, his voice calm to show her that the conversation was far from over.

"You are going to regret this, son. Who knows, the knocked-up whore is going to trap you in this marriage with a kid that might not be even yours. I know these types of women really well. She is taking advantage of your stupidity and affection for her. That's all she is, your object of affection. You're going to grow tired of her in no time and come back to me when you see the truth!" Semiha shot back, not aware that with that sentence, she lost her son forever.

"Listen to yourself. Listen to how you're talking about the woman I love, to the woman that is bearing my child, your grandchild. I don't want to see you ever again. I don't want to hear from you ever again. Stay away from us Semiha Yildrim. Stay away from us." Ahmet shouted as he banged the door behind him with force.

Semiha cut his expenses off immediately, she froze his bank accounts so he could not withdraw any money. Ahmet and Nare now were on their own, in the middle of the road, with a child on the way and no money.

But they managed to pull through will the help of some friends, Melo's parents. Eda and Melo were childhood friends and only grew closer with time. Mehmet and Esma, Melo's parents took a pregnant Nare and Ahmet in and helped them so they could get back on their feet.

Mehmet offered Ahmet a job at the company he worked for, even though he had to pull some strings to get him in while Nare worked as a doctor until she gave birth to their only daughter, Eda. Their beautiful daughter, born in the middle of chaos, their ray of hope, their sunshine.

Nare left work for a year to take care of her newborn child while Ahmet worked hard to take care of both of them. And while their bundle of hope grew day by day, so did Semiha's anger, jealously, hate.

As years passed, every attempt she made to infiltrate herself back into her son's life went in vain. The woman only grew crazier, she tried to sabotage Nare's work repeatedly and that's when Ahmet decided it would be best to move to Istanbul. Mardin was already Semiha's iron throne and as long as they lived there, she would always find a way to make them suffer.

And so, at Eda's 18th birthday party, Ahmet and Nare decided to make her wish come true. Little did they know how Semiha had other plans for them. She blamed Nare for driving her son away from her, so she ordered some of her men to have her killed.

The plan went south ways when the men accidentally shoot Ahmet before they could shoot Nare. But as far as the world knew, it was Semiha's enemies who did that. And even though it scared her consciousness for a long time, she put the blame on Nare for everything so she could cope with her own guilt better.