YOURS, JANNAH

#THIRTY EIGHT

That piercing outcry she let out alerted Adnan who was standing by the side of the tent holding Imara. He wouldn't have heard her had he stood a few feet away. Working with logic and rationality, he called out Alim through the small window by the tent where he was standing. Alim rushed out having heard the cry from Jannah too, he was already standing.

Adnan entrusted Imara into his arms then ordered; "Go back into the tent and don't come out."

He moseyed to the back of the tent with his pistol in hand, his movements slow and calculated. The sound she'd let out was filled with too much terror to have been one of her many tricks so the gun. Rounding the tent, he peeped with one eye keeping his stance dominant in case she's gotten away so he wont be on her way.

But he saw her standing there rooted, her eyes wide on the floor as her lips moved with rapidness, she was supplicating, saying anything that comes to her mind. His eyes trailed down to the floor where a mahogany and onyx snake pose, it's fork tongue slicing in and out maliciously.

Without thinking, Adnan rushed to where she stood and took a stance in front of her, his hands pushed her back several inches behind. Jannah's eyes widened some more if that were possible, she surveyed his muscular bunched back all tensed and stiff with a slight frown. Why did he do that? He is putting the both of them in danger now.

"Walk slowly through the other side of the tent and be careful in case there are more." He ordered in a quiet tone while watching the cobra hissing much more wrathfully at his interference.

She frowned at the order, almost cathartic. "The snake won't come near you. You are it's master! A freaking dragon, Dracs! You get this."

Despite himself, Adnan found his lips pitching and twitching to fight back a grin but he couldn't. She cannot see him so he let it out, a real smile he hadn't let soar or see the bright light of the day in forever. "Just do as I say and get Alim to come help with a snake snatcher."

"No! I'm not going to leave you hear all alone­..." She was cut short when the snake lunged it's head with sudden alacrity and did something to Adnan's leg just when Alim came with another man holding a snake snatcher.

Adnan let out a loud hiss similar to the one the snake had discharged earlier, Jannah stayed hidden behind him because he wouldn't let her go, he is keeping her away from the venomous reptile. Maybe the snake wanted to bite him all along and not her? If not why didn't it attack her when she stood there shouting out her lungs?

A man from the workers hurriedly took the snake snatcher from Alim who wanted to bravely do the work and captured the snake with it. He smiled apologetically at them because they are clearly foreigners and don't know how to deal with snakes while they are used to seeing them here and there.

Jannah forced herself away from Adnan's stilled body, meandered to see what had happened only to see him grimacing while clasping his calf. Something happened! The snake had bitten him but the man won't even scream or perhaps groan in discomfort. That could've been her in his place. She cannot begin to imagine how she would react to a snakebite.

Taking a hold of his leg in her two hands, she tried rolling up his slacks to view the bite but he wouldn't let her, he yanked his leg away and started walking back to the tent making her more worried. The guy is fucking limping! How stubborn is this guy to not accept a little help after been bitten by a snake? Will that shatter his ego too?

She followed closely behind with Alim and the other worker, all of them quiet. They don't know how to react to their boss not allowing his wife to check him. Then who are they to try?

Her patience literally detonated when they entered the tent alone, she closed the curtain like doors so Alim won't come in, he knows he isn't welcomed so he settled on roaming around the construction site while adding knowledge on things he had never been concerned over. He is also worried for Adnan of course. His stubbornness will lead them nowhere.