The Djinn's Wife

ONE

Two and a half years later

  If there was any word for how I felt right now I think debilitated would be the best description. If you were to tell me I was dead right now, I would believe you without hesitation. I was currently on the way to pick up Amir from his grandmothers house.

Darya has been some of the best help and support I've had since Cyrus has been gone. The day I found out I was pregnant was the last time anyone seen him in over two years. Just like that, my soul mate had vanished from the earth without a trace. To say these past few years have been the longest of my life isn't even a start to describe how hard it's been.

  I know he's still alive somewhere I can feel it, and even if he wasn't alive I would feel that too. I needed to find him, I just wanted my love back. For him to meet his son, for us to be a complete family, to hold him in my arms and know that he's safe... to be able to sleep beside him at night wrapped in all the comfort and security he brings. Now, I don't know if I'll ever have those days again. My nights are now spent long and alone, starring at his empty side of the bed or just watching our son sleep peacefully without a care in the world.

  It's hard raising a child on your own, although I still have the support of Darya, my cousin, along with me and Cyrus friends it's still not the same as having him around. Amir is only two but I always talk about his father to him, he deserves to know about the man that helped bring him here. As well as the truth about what he is, I was completely in the dark about everything once Amir was close to being born. My pregnancy was shorter than normal, and don't even get me started on the labor. Boy I thought my periods were bad, I ended up pushing my sweet baby boy out on his grandmothers basement floor.

  I pulled up to Darya's large looming mansion, the dark gray bricks and black lining added to the dark ambiance. The beautiful yet strangely perfect rose garden filled with thorns surrounded the home. Somehow managing to make the long road up ahead that she had audacity to call a driveway even creepier, this place use to never fail to creep me out. Although now it's become one of the very few places that I feel at peace, instead of my own large empty house. I quickly punched in the PIN code to open up the large black gates to enter the estate. I guess money isn't something hard to come by when you're from a different plane of existence and could conjure a million dollars out of thin air.

  Cyrus did tell me once that something like that went against their laws though, sets of rules that were bound in their being that they couldn't break no matter what. The binding Jinn law, something that all jinns had to have done to keep them from wreaking havoc and going out of control with their pessimistic and mischievous nature.

  Darya even told me it was something that would have to be done on Amir once he turns three, that it would be too dangerous to have him try and live as a normal human without the laws engraved in him. The second I got my little old blue Nissan up the long brick driveway, I was met by two little legs and a bouncing head of raven curls coming my way.

  I didn't waste any time getting out of the car to greet the little boy I had missed so much in a few short hours.

"Mama!" Amir yelled excitedly starting to run as fast as his little legs would carry him.

"Hi my baby!" I said matching his excitement while covering him in kisses.

"Mama missed you" I continued to say to him, adjusting while he hugged my neck.

  Darya was at the door smiling and waiting for us to come inside.

"How did it go? Found out anything useful?" She asked looking hopeful. 

  I know Cyrus going missing took a heavy toll on her as well, after all he was her only son. One she was lucky to have in the first place, one that someone decided to snatch away from her.