MARRIED TO MY BEST FRIEND (COMPLETED)✔

CHAPTER 17 (MATURE)

'Juwaid!' Elham protests as I stand to get to the bedside table, her phone is ringing and for some reason I want to answer the call. I ask her to relax as I go get the call.

"Saif calling" it read. I felt my heart fell reading the name flashing on the screen.

'Who is it?' I hear Elham say.

'No one, wrong number' I say and cut the call, I then deleted the call history. Switching off her phone I place it back on the table. I want to keep Elham away from Saif, first time since I have come to know about Saif and Elham's relationship I felt jealous of Saif.

'I think we should sleep' I say taking my casuals and walking into the bathroom not meeting her gaze. I know Elham is little disappointed.

After a while I come out and find Elham sitting on her side. I panic seeing her curled up with her legs pressed against her chest and head buried in her knees. I hurried towards her and sat next to her, placing my hand on her shoulder I start to ask if everything is alright. She looks at me, I felt my heart hurt seeing her red eyes.

'I feel like a slut!' she says sobbing.

I am hell shocked with the word she is using for herself. I didn't say anything and hugged her.

'No...No...don't say like that...' I say holding her tightly. Truth be told, I didn't regret a minute of our intimacy. Why all off sudden she is talking like this?

'You...you...must be...thinking so low of me...I love Saif but then I kissed you...and was ready to....' She sobs

I separate our frames and held her face tightly in between my palms and look directly into her eyes

'What we did was nothing wrong? We are husband- wife right...what we did is normal...I don't regret a minute of it.' I say. She closes her eyes tight and continue to cry. I held her head against my chest and hugged her tight.

'You didn't regret? Then why you left me so abruptly?' she asks sniffling.

I look at her and held her cheek 'I thought I offended you' I say honestly. She shakes her head and hugs me again.

After few minutes, 'Juwaid...let's...let's...consummate our marriage' she suggests. A part of me does a happy dance but another part requested me to not hurry lest I hurt her. I don't want her to think low of herself again. Whatever happened though was beautiful but had happened in the heat of the moment, and I don't want to do anything just for the sake of it.

I held her face in my palms 'Are you sure?' I ask double checking. She nods

'Yes!' she replies firmly.

I smile 'Then little later...when the time is right' I say. She pouts for few minutes and then nods her head.

This time we didn't sleep apart, Elham rests her head on my chest. I warned her not to drool in the night. She smacked my chest and denied of drooling. We both know she is lying. She frowns as I plugged the ear plugs into my ears. That night we slept cuddling with each other, I am happy that this time she will not be able to pull the duvet off me. That night, I didn't have any nightmare either.

*

Next day, things return to normal. I and Elham exchanged warm greeting, there is no sense of awkwardness between us.

She drops me off at my working place and leaves for her work place. I bid her good bye. I walked in my workplace smiling like a love stuck teenager. My colleagues teased me too but I was very polite with them, denying anything is fishy.