Cause you took me home, but you just couldn’t keep me- Bye Bye Baby. Rukaiya was not sure about Hamida’s sudden and strange request. She was doubtful that Jalal was doing well alone in another city and wanted Rukaiya to visit him. Although she could never refuse Hamida’s request, Rukaiya was not sure what had suddenly happened for her to think that way. There was no way Hamida knew about Salima. But what if Jalal told her so and avoided telling Rukaiya because he did not want to share with her that he was genuinely upset about losing Salima because of her? Rukaiya felt a little guilty since their last conversation and decided that it would indeed be good for her to visit him in person and clear any possible air of misunderstanding. But what about her work? Humayun suggested that since she was visiting Agra, she could check out their branches there and run a thorough investigation into some fund shortage the branch had reported lately. Rukaiya was eager for the experience. She also...
This is me praying that this was the very first page, not where the storyline ends ~ Enchanted. Ajabdeh woke up to the knock on her door. She sleepily checked the vintage clock on the wall showing half past six, as she sat up to see the scattered half-packed things on the floor of her room. Ajabdeh grunted, removing the messy locks of hair falling on her face. She must have fallen asleep in the middle of packing, and now her shoulder hurts. The knock was louder as she staggered across the room and half opened the door to see the housekeeper standing there. “What is it?” She must have sounded displeased because the housekeeper stammered as she explained that the village Pradhan’s wife and a few other women were there to see her. She frowned, clueless as to what she could be needed for by these women. She instructed the housekeeper to keep them waiting as she hurried through her morning routine, put on a decent Kurti from the unpacked bunch and stepped into the living room whe...
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