Crazy in Love

I look and stare so deep in your eyes I touch on you more and more every time

“And I know you feel the same way I do
Heart it skips a beat every time I come around you
No wonder no one understands
Just how this love can do what no one else’s can”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

“Azat abi wouldn’t do that.” she was calm but her eyes were deadly.

“Oh yeah? Why? Because you are the only one he wants?” his jealousy fueled the flames of hatred until they were a blaze. 

“No.” she shook her head once and set her jaw. “He isn’t that kind of man.”

He slowly huffed out a long breath from his nose, his whole body shaking as he advanced on her, backing her against a wall. 

“Tell me. What kind of man is he?” 

He was insinuating that she knew Azat in a way more intimate than cousins and he thought he could intimidate an answer out of her. She tilted her chin up so she could look down her nose at him even though he was taller. 

“Azat is a good man.”

Rage shook his body even further and his eyes shone with fear. He got impossibly closer, pressing his body against hers and held up one finger for emphasis while he spoke.

“I’ll make sure he never touches another girl again.”

It wasn’t an empty threat. She had seen what he was capable of with her own eyes. His misdirected hatred angered her, and she lashed out.

“Why would he touch Gonul? Huh? He doesn’t love her or hate you enough to do that. Besides, he swore to never touch me when I agreed to marry him. He’s an honorable man!”

The hard angles of his face softened when he was hit with shock, and she knew she gave away too much. 

“What?” he whispered, still so close to her.

She bit her lips and avoided his gaze. “He’s a good-”

“No. Not that.” he breathed on her cheek.

She was mad at herself for letting him get the upper hand and terrified that she would divulge more secrets. She squeezed her eyes shut and inhaled, hating the fact that her breathing automatically synced with his. 

“Look at me. Tell me, Reyyan.” he said it so softly, knowing exactly how to break down her walls. 

She obeyed and looked up at him and when she did she saw hope and so much love in his eyes. She couldn’t resist.

“I made him promise never to touch me as a condition to me marrying him.”

He blinked and gulped instead of asking her why. She understood anyway. 

“He agreed knowing I would never want him.” she looked down as she told him her secret. 

His lips parted to take in a heated breath. She could feel his chest rise and fall, his heart rate increasing. She could feel how badly he wanted to ask her why. Why she would agree to live the rest of her life without an intimate touch. Why she would never want another man.