Wanting Her(#1)

17

It was almost midnight when the call came in.Noor being a light sleeper, on the fourth ring, she picked up the phone without checking the callers ID, she answered.

"Salam alaikum" She greeted drowsily. Noor could barely open her eyes, fatigue weighed her down physically and mentally.

The caller listened as she slept, mumbling incoherent words here and there, he called to speak with her but never had anything calmed his raging heart like the rhythmic breathing of the young woman on the other side of the line.

He wished, badly, she was in an arm length from him, he would have swallowed her up in his arms for her to ease the burn at the center of his chest.

He had never known what peace felt like until this moment, when her innocence caresses his tainted soul.

Fateh's hunger for her is insatiable, that fact he became aware of the day he met her at the Ismail's residence. It took the grace of god to keep himself from taking her along with him.

He couldn't wait to have her, he silently hoped she would keep up with the countless ways he planned on devouring her whole until every tiny part of her was his, his alone.

The sleeping beauty and midnight caller slept peacefully, especially the caller, who was not aware that he had fallen in a deep slumber until late in the morning.

He missed few important meetings but was not bothered by it, his secretary was reliable and efficient enough to handle the situation.

When Noor woke up from sleep the next morning, she dismissed the call she got last night and didn't bother to call the number back and daily life went on as usual for her.

At the Ismail's residence, everything was going on rather smoothly. Hajia was recovering very fast and Noor is gradually getting accustomed to the fact that she is getting married very soon and that too, to the man she knows only by his face and name.

The past week had been rather hectic for Noor. Mami, though still confined to her room as the doctor has limited her movements, left no stone unturned for the preparation of the wedding.

Bridal spa sessions has already begun for the two brides, Noor and Nabiha. The feud between them two has only skyrocketed in the past weeks. Other than the fact that Nabiha is jealous of the man Noor was getting married to,now adding salt to her already painful wound, Nabiha is made to assist Noor in managing the house as per Mami's instructions.

'Nabiha should learn one or two things before marriage' Mami had ordered.

The introverted bride, Noor, insisted on a very low key wedding which includes only the wedding fatiha and maybe a Walima afterwards if her family insists. Moreover, she has no friends to invite and her mother's family were enough. Besides what is the point of celebrating something you are not happy with?

While on the other, Nabiha took her stand on having her wedding in a grandiloquence manner. Even for a nanosecond she didn't consider the situation that her mother was into or the stress she will put everyone through.

Mami did not press further on the issue, at some point, she was to be blamed, she did promised Nabiha the wedding of her dreams but that was when she did not know what tragic events will befall her home.

There's no going back on her words now but her oldest daughter will not like the decision she has made, Nabiha will have to share her spotlight with Noor, which Mami is sure her daughter will throw a tantrum over.

Fateh almost missed a very important meeting on his way back to Nigeria, with a VVIP client.

His assistant, Mr.KB, was his job by reviewing the details of the contract, but Fateh's mind was nowhere in of the conversation throughout the journey from Lebanon.