My Accidental Husband, Not Father

36 | Letting you in

Ghaith

Safe...

I wanted to keep the enemy's daughter safe.

No scratch that.

I wanted to keep Nowa safe.

For some reason that thought didn't bother me so much anymore. It was just... natural. She was my wife and I brought her into this miserable mansion, I needed to keep her sane and keep myself from drowning.

I took another breath; this one easier than the last. It didn't feel like there was a pressure on my chest anymore. I could fill my lungs with the air that they so desperately craved. I breathed slowly, and with each breath I became more aware. My senses were coming back and my bubble was slowly losing strength. I was no longer protected.

I could hear a noise , and as I slowly was brought back to the surface, I was still in the jeep.

I left the car and went straight to Nowa's room even though Inaan tried to stop me as she wanted to tell me something but I didn't want to listen, I wanted to move.

"Open the door," I whispered against the door.

I waited patiently as I listened to Nowa move around in the room. She opened the door and walked back to the bed. I looked at the chair, almost wanting to smile at the cliché of it all. I closed the door and put the chair back in place.

We're in our bubble now.

We're safe.

I noticed Nowa looking at me and I smiled crookedly at her.

"Are you crazy Ghaith ?" She asked sounding sincerely curious. "You leave the room ten minutes ago angry and now you are smiling and why were you barricading the door like this." I glanced at her as I looked at the bag she was packing and almost everything was inside the bag.

"You thought you could get rid of me that easily" I asked.

She looked uncomfortable and started to bags, trying to continue to pack the bag as I went toward the bag and removed everything as I started throwing everything outside the bag.

"What do you want, Ghaith? I thought you were done with this... with me... whatever."

Defeated. There was no other word to describe her at that moment. Everything about her screamed defeat.

"I couldn't be done," I answered.

"So, what happened that you finally decided to pack your things," I put my hands inside my pocket as I asked the question.

"I will tell everything to Faye and I will make her get the kid's mother back" She told me as she continued to take the clothes that I removed out of the suitcase inside again.

"Why tonight? Why not yesterday? Why not this afternoon? Why now?" I tried to keep my voice calm and detached as she told me that.

I needed to look at this from an outside point of view, or else it would eat me up inside. I didn't know how to react when what I needed from the start had finally happened.

Before it had been just a silly plan, and now it was reality.

She looked up to meet my gaze and I tried to keep my eyes cold. I needed her to understand that I was fucking pissed that she was going to go without even consulting me first. But her face was enough to make my resolve crumble, and I felt almost as defeated as she looked.