Love And Revenge✔️

Twenty-Four

*Chapter Twenty-Four*

She sat down looking at Mutassim waiting for an explanation.
Salam And Salma just arrived in Kaduna with him so while they went upstairs she decided to talk to him.
  
"How is Madina and the children?" She asks.
"Rumaisa what is it? You have something you want to ask me?" He asks looking at her blankly.
    
"Hadiza slipped to Fuad that I was the one who asked Baba to get us married so....how the hell did she know?"
  
"What's that supposed to mean? Don't use that scum language with me"
She stays quiet.

"And yeah I told her"
"Why? How?"
"Not that I need to explain myself to you but she and I were dating and I tell her everything"
   
"You two were dating? You're joking, right?" She asks.
"No I'm not and I have no idea why she told you but it doesn't matter anyway"

Salam comes in.
"Okay let's go" Mutassim tells him.
"Why can't you just stay here?" She asks Salam.

"Because it's weird for a grown man like me to stay in my sister's house, Okay?"
"Alright then"
"At least Salma is with you"

They walk out.

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Salma just went upstairs. Rumaisa and Fuad were seated watching.
"I talked to Mutassim"
"Okay" he says sounding highly uninterested.
"Because he was the only one who knew"

He doesn't say anything back.
"I know I shouldn't bring this up but I just had to find out how Hadiza knew"
   
"And you got your answer?"
"Yes I did"
"Good for you I hope it changed something" he says back not interested.

"Don't you want to know?"
He stays quiet.
"You don't?"
    
"Do I have to know?"
"So you don't?"

Tired of the back and forth he finally gives her, her answer "Just say it!"
She stays quiet looking at him fuming.
   
"Did you know he was dating Hadiza?"
He looks at her a bit shocked.
  
"Makes sense" he shrugs.
"Why aren't you surprised she was cheating on you for years"
"I knew she was dating someone I just didn't know who"

"Yeah and they didn't want anyone to know. God that girl needs prayers"
"No your brother does"

"What do you mean my brother?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
She shakes her head.

He huffs "Back then when Hadiza And I were together, almost everyday a guy called her. She wouldn't answer his calls, when she did she would just let him keep talking until he ended the call himself. I knew she was dating someone but he didn't matter to her and I thought maybe it was because of a valuable reason so I never asked"
    "But still"

"Think with your head Rumaisa. If he is open to say it's a relationship why didn't he say it sooner?"
"Because it was a secret"
"For who? For him? Or for her?"
    
"For her?" She asks.
"Let me put it this way..She probably told him to keep it a secret because it was shameful for her to be dating a married man and she was in love with me and didn't want me to find out so I would break up with her. He didn't care if people knew because all he had to say was he is getting married again but he agreed because that was what she wanted"
   "Okay..So?"

"Now that she is serious with another guy he can't stand it so he told you because he knew it would get to me somehow and probably get to Ismail or maybe just me knowing would hurt her. I know your brother too well, he wouldn't tell you because he is worried or because he wants to be honest"
    
"Yeah makes sense but still you have to talk to her"
"Look if your brother told you knowing it might get to her it means it's over between them because he knows it might ruin things for her now and at the end of the day she might get back with him. And what happened between them is not my problem or yours so stop trying to make her the bad guy because at the end of the day you were the one who asked your father to get us married so all this falls on you and no one else" he gets up and walks out.

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She walks in to find Salma seated on her bed using her phone.
"What are you doing with my phone?" She asks.
  
"I wanted to see the pictures you and Fuad took since you got married"
"First of all Fuad hardly agrees to take pictures and secondly they're in Sarah's phone"

"Okay. Firstly he's so old school and secondly what are your pictures with your husband doing with Sarah?"
"She's the one who takes the pictures" Rumaisa sits beside her sister who still kept scrolling through her phone.

"Don't you find it.....what word should I use mah...Don't you find it despicable that you don't have any pictures with your husband except your pre-wedding and your wedding pictures while your friend has everything?"
     "Don't judge me"

"No I'm not judging I'm Just stating the obvious"
"Enough about me tell me about you"
She stays quiet.
     
"I noticed since you got here you have been acting off and awkward. When you came you glued yourself to Salam and when he left you immediately slept off and that's why we didn't talk. And then when you woke up you went to the living room where Fuad was and didn't leave until you started falling asleep. What the hell is going on?"
   
"Okay but promise me you'll not freak out"
"I won't. I promise"
"Okay then I am currently dating Zubair, your ex"

She stays quiet trying to calm her nerves down.

"You're dating my Zubair?"
"I know but I....I'm not sure how it started"
"You know what I think you should just sleep tonight let's talk about it tomorrow when I'm not likely to have a stroke"
    "Okay"

Oh god! Why does my life have to be so complicated? Why did it have to be Zubair?

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