Wherever You Go

Chapter 24

"Yes I am. If you can, make it within a week or so because I might have to travel for work and I don't want you arriving in the middle of it" Yagiz is very much impressed with his cool tone and attitude. 

In truth he is desperate to see her. Pleasure or pain, he has now deduced his life needs her in it. He was planning to leave her and vanish but in truth he could not. All pretenses aside, all he would have to do was to just get on the taxi and go past that cemetery. But he could not. He wanted to see her one last time, look into her eyes one last time. Yagiz has also realized that she is just about the only person he could tolerate to have close by, from his old life.

"A week? " Hazan sequels, her heart fluttering dangerously. In fact she could fly out even tomorrow, all her things are packed and she is just living out of one suitcase. She is nervous and also she is not sure what her mother would say to such a sudden departure.

"If you are going to lie to your family about going to Germany, you should fly out in a hurry. Mrs. Fazilet would somehow find it otherwise" Yagiz says, having read her mind again. Hazan smiles to herself on his formal address to her mother still, despite being her son in law now. Get a grip Hazan, have you forgotten how you managed to achieve that? She tells herself.

" Yagiz, by the way the real estate guy never came. What should I do to with the key?" Hazan asks, suddenly remembering the key that has been in her handbag since the day he left.

" Oh forget it Hazan. Just bring it when you come. The office has a key for their cleaning purposes" He says and Hazan almost does a happy dance.

"You are not selling the apartment?" she asks happiness and hope flaring in her voice.

"Can you leave your number at the office if they have any issues related to my apartment?" Yagiz says instead of answering her excited question.

Since leaving Turkey he has been extremely careful about whom he gives his new mobile number. He only gave it to Gokhan when he was convinced without a doubt that he is serious about divorcing Yasmin. Yagiz was glad that Gokhan has finally seen how destructive Yasmin really is and their divorce was proceeding very quickly. They are finally starting to bond as brothers, very tentatively, since neither of them were the emotional or the talkative type. 

Hazan's disappointed exclamation was enough for him to reinforce his strong conviction of not selling the apartment and Yagiz offered it to Gokhan now that the mansion was advertised to be auctioned to pay off debts. But they both knew it was too public and a known place for any of the Egemens' to stay right now.

For someone who was travelling out of the country for the first time LAX was an intimidating one to land, that too on the middle of the night. But as she walked through the gates after final clearance, Hazan found it to have gone relatively well. Perhaps because she was too excited, nervous and afraid to experience the usual qualms of a traveler during a 13 hour nonstop flight. 

She was never more keenly aware of what a fateful journey she is undertaking, even if she has taken that decision in a matter of seconds. This could be good, after a long while and this could be extremely bad, almost instantly. But she knew whichever way it will go, it was her destiny and happy or sad the outcome is, for once in her life this will be one decision that she will never regret. 

 Yagiz had booked a business class seat for her; there was hardly any surprise there. He had style and class enough to give the best for someone he even disliked. Every time Hazan looked at the ticket with the name Hazan Egemen in it, her palpitations started. 

Yagiz had been right, the exit in a hurry has worked like a charm with her family. Ozugers' schedules had prevented them from coming to the airport and the tearful goodbyes were said at their new house. Hard as it was Hazan could not help feeling like she was escaping from the contaminated web of lies, revenge and dirty schemes that her mother and Ece also has taken part in or created themselves. There existed a small hope of Ece coming back to the correct path and Hazan vowed to make that happen.