𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚

52.

𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮,
𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓴.

It's astonishing how life changes in a night. One moment your dignity has been snatched and ripped away from you mercilessly and in the other moment it has been granted back to you by a subordinate as your saviour, a knight in shining armour and shit.

Arsalan wasn't sure if Zaid would ever be able to pull the duty of a Knight for Abeer because he wasn't the type of a man who would go all soldier and 'I will protect you with all my might' kinda guy. He was more of a 'Be good to me and I might be good to you' kind of person. He believes that the way one treats him will be treated in the same way in return and Arsalan was fine with this motto of his but now he was a little worried.

It was fine until he used to flirt with girls and make them blush with his charms offering them his coolest smile, one that has melted the hearts of many women but in a single night everything changed and what amazed him the most was that Abeer was the girl written for him all this time.

Though he doubted with all his mopping over the past weeks hiding in the confines of his dark room lamenting the loss of someone he finally had his heart on she was no one other than Abeer and he was happy that he now had someone whom he wanted to get married with but he was equally worried about the responsibility that comes with it. Abeer was the softest and kind-hearted girl a little mishap from him might break her badly.

Arsalan sighs as he jabs his hand in his pocket and takes one last run before he heads to Manor.

There is this thing he kinda got more soft corners for his sisters than for his brothers. They always make him worry but no one needs to know that especially Asmara she would take that as her defence weapon and shoot him every single day with her sing-a-song taunt. He shakes his head with a chuckle at that thought and turns towards Abidi Manor.

And with a thought, he concludes that he's gonna believe whatever was written in Abeer's and Zaid's entwined destiny.
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The horror of one night was so louder and sharper that one could feel it even in their sleep. Sofia pulled her blanket to her chin and rolled to the other side to go back to sleep again trying to get over the picture of Abeer's numb empty eyes that she saw in her dream which startled her awake from her sleep. She felt like she was going all over the incident from yesterday yet again.

But looking at the brightest side of yesterday night it wasn't less than a miracle. No one must have thought such a huge change of fate was written in Abeer's destiny.

A groom to exchange untwisted the twisted knot of Abeer's fate. Not just any groom but Zaid. Zaid Freaking Kazimi.

It was unbelievable and the way the unexpected had happened she could bet no one was ready for that.

But that's just destiny; whatever it may write one as to fall into its way.

She smiles to herself when she recalls Zaid saying Qubool Hai and wonders if was he giddy the time he said those two words. After all, he married the one he always desired.

"Are you daydreaming about me wifey?" Arsalan startles her with his sudden presence; she turns around to find him so close to her that her breath hitches at his closeness.

His beautiful grey eyes stare back at her with so much warmth that they reach to her chest and stir something in with a blooming ache.

She smiles at him "Good morning husband dearest"

Arsalan melts at her dimple-popping smile "Good morning wifey" he says and leans to kiss her dimple cheeks "I wanna eat those dimples of yours" he mumbles against her cheeks as he kisses them again.