Wherever You Go

Chapter 26

Yagiz wakes up early, earlier than usual and immediately remembers that Hazan is there with him, in the house. Having lived a better part of his life alone and waking up to the blissful silence of wherever he is, ideally he should feel some trepidation. But he feels none. Of course this is Hazan, he feels all kinds of emotions about her presence. But none of them can be called a dislike for her being here. 

Coming downstairs, he is sure that Hazan must still be sleeping. But the first thing he sees is Hazan curled up in his favourite corner by the book shelf, staring at the vista beneath. Her hair is loose around her face and he sees that she has cut her long hair upto the shoulder. Yagiz knows that her hair was a big deal for her, not having cut it since her father passed away when she was 10, because he didn't like her to cut her hair. According to what Mrs. Fazilet told him, Hazan has learned some disturbing things about her father and probably cut her hair because of that. Her face looks so serene and beautiful that Yagiz feels serene too. She glances up at him and smiles radiantly.

"Good morning"

"Good morning" he says, automatically sitting on the chair next to hers, without having any intention to do so. "Awake already?"

"Yes. Could not sleep. Now don't think it's because the place is bad. It is not so. Probably due to the time difference" She says laughing and Yagiz finds himself laughing along with her. She looks radiant and it takes his breath away. He watches as in a trance as she says "wait a minute" and gets up. Surely this got to stop, he thinks. Since she arrived he had been staring at her all the time. Probably because it was the first time that he could do so openly, without the prying eyes of everyone.

Hazan returns with two mugs, steaming and obviously coffee. Yagiz doesn't know how she knows it's his mug, but she hands it to him. Something shifts in Yagiz's heart. This is the first time that someone had his coffee ready when he woke up in any of his houses. Unlike all the times it has happened countless times at other locations, it seems that there is a special significance of it happening in your own house.

"You are thinking so hard" Hazan says lightly taking a sip of her coffee.

"I thought how nice it is to have coffee waiting when you wake up" Yagiz says, deciding he will reciprocate her honesty this morning with his own. Her statement early this morning has caused havoc inside his heart. Her jealousy and clear admission of it makes his heart so elated that it is an effort to keep telling his heart that she did something terrible to him. Something in his book that can never be forgiven.

"I cannot promise to do it every day though" she says smiling and Yagiz raises his brows in inquiry.

" I might get a little lazy and might wake up after you some days" She says mischievously. In her Yagiz sees a different Hazan. Not quite the fighting and aggressive Hazan that he initially fell for, not quite the timid and submissive Hazan that he knew for past few months but a happier and more playful one.

"You still do not have breakfast but only takes coffee? I did not do anything since I wanted to check with you first" She says. Yagiz does not know how she knows that too, for he cannot remember them ever in a setting to have breakfast together. But it was a known fact in the mansion.

" If you want we can go out for breakfast" He says.

"Aren't you going to office today?"

" I do not have to go. I have few things to attend, which I can do from here" Yagiz says. Unless there are meetings he really does not have to go to office. He worked even while he was based in Turkey. His team is mostly working remotely and only a skeleton staff attended office every day. But since he returned, he had been going to office everyday to escape dark thoughts invading his heart. He deliberately did not schedule any meetings these days because he wanted to be there for Hazan to adjust to her new surroundings and to help with whatever she requires.