Chapter Twelve

Layla woke up the following day, in Mikail's embrace. She pulled away slowly and walked to the bathroom. She took her bath, brushed her teeth and said her Fajr prayers.

She came back to wake him up

He had a scary morning face. She almost run away. He suddenly pinned her down on the bed and whispered

"Are you scared of me Dameyah?".

She gulped and nodded truthfully.

He sighed sadly and hugged her

" You don't need to be anymore Habii(my love)"

She looked confused when he called her that. But she just nodded and tried to get out of his hold.

"Are you running away from me baby?" He asked. She didn't seem to understand why he was calling her that.

"Umm... Why are you calling me that?" She asked coyly.

"You mean baby?" He asked her. She nodded shyly. He smiled and shook his head.

"You'll understand soon"

She raised an eyebrow at him and sighed as she managed to get up.

Suddenly she felt a painful sting in her abdomen. A gush of goose flesh escaped from her folds. She knew it was that time of the month.

Mikail stared at her quizzically. He didn't seem to understand what was going on with her.

"Hey what's wrong hun? " he asked on a worried manner.

She forced a fake smile out of her and looked away. She limped to the bathroom to change her clothes. She realised that, there were no tampons or sanitary towels around. And this cursed Satan's Crucifixial Waterfall that comes every month was here and was hurting more than usual.

"Jammy?" She called him out by his nickname. He quickly rushed to the bathroom gate and asked

"What's wrong baby?"

She felt shy to ask him so she said politely.

"Can you please ask Mrs.Feyrouzah to bring me some tampons or some sanitary towels?"

Mikail being the pervert that he is and will always be said

"Move back from the door Muhabun"

She didn't understand why, but she did. The next thing was very unexpected. He literally just kicked the bathroom door and sent it flying away.

The look on his face was so sinister that she begun thinking that he was going to violate her.

He edge towards her and lowered his face to her ears.

"Tell me what you need Habii"

She gulped. She knew that he now knew what she needed. She looked away and said,

"I need some tampons or sanitary towels"

He smirked and said

"At your service hun"

He skipped downstairs to get her what she needed. It was kinda weird how he was behaving. She hoped he had changed for the better.

She and Him had a lot to talk about. She didn't know what to do. In times like this, she usually speaks to her mom about this. But her mom was no more and she had nobody to talk to except for Allah.

She couldn't pray because she was in her period, so she walked to the balcony and sat down and spoke to the wind.

"Yaa Allah. I need You to tell me what is going on in my life now. I don't seem to understand this man. Help me against anything bad that may come from either him or other people. I need You to open my eyes to see the difference between right and wrong"

She knew that He hears and Understands.

Mikail came back few moments later with some tampons and sanitary towels. She was amazed at how he held the materials. She blushed as she said a small 'Thank you ' to him.

He nodded and walked out of the room. She hopped in to the bathroom and took her bath. She changed her clothes into a nude coloured long dress and a nude coloured hijab.

She came out of the closet to meet Mikail standing shirtless making a call. She gasped as she tried to run out of the room. He rushed to the door and blocked the way.

She gulped as he pulled her to his chest as he wrapped up his phone conversation.

"I'll bring her over to the Sheikh mansion and I'll come meet you at the office" he said as he hanged up and looked down at her.

"Where are you going woman?!" He snapped playfully. She couldn't help but giggle a little.

"I was going downstairs" she said nervously.

Mikail knew that she was still scared of him. He patted her on the head and said

"Let's go downstairs together"

She looked surprised. She nodded as he threw a tank top on and held her wrist. She flinched a little out of pain and reminiscence. Mikail noticed if and stopped abruptly to examine her wrists.

It was his first time of observing this. Her wrists had several cut marks on it. He frowned and growled loudly. It scared her. He snapped his head up and looked her straight in the eye.

She was scared.

"What is this?" He asked wickedly. Scenes of that faithful day, flashed across her mind once more. That event that she and Munaiya kept away from their whole family 3 years ago, begun playing behind her mind again.

Her eyes were soon filled with tears. She didn't know how to tell Mikail. She knew that he would be mad at her for not telling him all this while. She gulped as his eyes remained rigid and unblinking, as he awaited a response.

"It's just a mark" she tried to lie. But the look on Mikail's face said it all. He didn't believe a word she said. He growled at her and held her by the back of the neck and pulled her to his face so that both their noses will be touching each other and said

"Don't lie to me Habii, or else I'll make you tell me"

He begun licking his lips, obviously telling her what he would do if she didn't open up to him. She pulled and stuttered.

"Munaiya and I, were coming back from the market one rainy day. A suspicious car pulled up beside us and 3 men came out all in black. They had a Scorpion tattoo on each of their necks and they tied a red bandana unto their hands.

One of them paced towards us and tried to grab Munaiya. I had to intervene. The man was holding a sharp dagger and before he could get hold of Munaiya, I pulled her away swiftly but not swift enough, so his knife slit my wrist.

We begun running but they were following us. Munaiya was scared so we hid behind a dumpster while they searched in vain for us. One of the men however, stayed behind to look round the dumpster. He spotted us and I picked up a heavy stick and whacked him in the head just in time before he could signal the others to get us.

But he successfully slit me on the wrist once again before blacking out. We were able to run away fast to that abandoned alleyway you saw me going to.

The woman living there helped us, so I was forever indebted to her. That was why you saw me going there to give her some money".

By the end of this confession, Mikail was in tears. His love, risked her life to save his younger sister?

" You saved Munaiya? Layla? How.. How can I.... " he couldn't even compose a simple statement now.

She just hugged him lightly and said

"Munaiya would have done same for me Jammy. I had to do this bit for her"

Mikail carried her and kissed her on the cheek deeply.

"Thank you My love. Thank you very much"

Layla blushed when he called her his love. He placed her down gently and put on a better outfit and ushered her to his car outside.

They were going to the Sheikh mansion and they were going to find out who did this and why.

The drive to the mansion was a quiet one. Mikail concentrated on the road, whilst Layla said a slight prayer in her mind.

They finally got to the Sheikh mansion and were both welcomed by cheers. Mikail's minions were there too.

"You didn't invite me to your wedding hubby" a young beautiful man, whom Layla discovered his name to be Ali, teased.

Layla giggled at that. The beautiful man turned to her and gasped.

"What the hell?! How did such a beautiful beauty, end up with such a hideous poopy beast like Mikail?!!" Layla laughed at that statement so hard that she almost lost her balance and fell.

Mikail glared at Ali, who looked at him ever so happily.

"Trust me, you wouldn't want to be on Mikail's bad side hun" Ali advised her.

"Ohh I have been there several times already Shaqeq(brother in Arabic) " she said in her doll like voice.

He looked at her with his mouth gaped open.

"Oh My Fucking God! Can I say that, you are the most beautiful and most mesmerising lady ,I've ever met? Your voice is killing me already" he said as he feigned dying.

Layla giggled at that, as Mikail held her possessively and growled at Ali.

Ali looked double shocked at Mikail's gesture.

"Wow girl! You are one unique one. Look how you got the big bad Maharajah Mikail on the tip of your fingers" Layla couldn't help but burst into laughter once again.

Three other men walked towards them, as they drooled over Layla's beauty. Layla begun to feel uneasy. Mikail patted her gently as they all walked to the main hall, where Mikail's mother, Munaiya, Manaf and Mikail's uncle sat.

Munaiya rushed to hug Layla when she saw her.

"Layla!!!!! I missed you!!" She yelled in Layla's ears.

Layla couldn't help but place her fingers into her ears.

Mikail glared at Munaiya as he pulled Layla away. Munaiya looked shocked but not so shocked.

"Hmm.. I thought his Lord Governor Mikail, said he wasn't in love with my friend Layla? His gesture tells a completely different story." She teased.

Layla pulled away from Mikail a little and blushed as she walked to greet the elderly folks available.

"Layla dearest? You don't have to dress this way. You have to be a little bit extravagant when you are newly married" her mother's best friend and mother in law said.

Layla raised her eyebrow and shrugged her shoulders.

"I never knew of that, but I promise you, next time you see me, you're going to think that I just walked out of a vogue magazine" she said as she begun to flip her hijab side to side.

That comment and gesture made everyone laugh.

"Well, we are here to talk about something very important to everyone present here. It concerns Layla and Munaiya. It was about something that happened to them 3 years ago, that they kept to themselves. So Layla? Munaiya? Do you have anything to tell us?" Mikail asked.

Layla sighed as Munaiya's happy expression changed to sad.

Everyone stared at them expecting an answer.

Layla opened up and explained everything to them and showed them her wrists cuts. By the time she was done, Munaiya was in tears as she hugged Layla tightly.

"I don't know how to thank you enough bae" she said with many emotions in her voice.

"It's alright girl. I know you would have done even more than that for me" Layla said trying to console her best friend till casket.

The whole family, including the new guys that Layla just met, looked shocked.

Memuna;Munaiya's mother went on her knees and began thanking Layla.

"Thank you so much Layla. You went through that pain for my baby. Thank you so much. Kareem help me thank Layla" her mother begun wailing and calling on Munaiya's uncle to help her thank Layla.

"Come on Mom. No need to do this. We're family after all. It was even a little thing I did for her. I swear, I would even die, for each of you. Don't worry yourself Mom " Layla wanted her mother in law to be rest assured.

Her mother in law rose up and hugged Layla tightly. Soon everyone in the room was either hugging her or patting her on the head.

The last hug came with a peck and it was from His Highness, Lord Governor Mr. Mikail Bun Sheikh Abd Azeez.

There was jeers all over after that act he pulled off. Layla was just blushing like never before.

She innocently wiped away his kiss as she heard him growl at her.She smirked shyly as he locked eyes with her.

"Come over Habii" Mikail called out to her. She blushed as she walked to him and sat beside him. He wrapped his arm around her and whispered into her ears

"I'll be going to work for now. I'll come pick you up later hun. Take care and remember that you're Mikail's only one"

She gasped as she heard that. She turned to face him slowly with her lips apart. She wasn't expecting to hear that.

The whole family was staring at them lovingly, especially Munaiya. Ali and the other boys; Ibrahim, Jamil and Farhan who were smiling like goofs.

Ali was a surgeon, Ibrahim was an engineer, Jamil was an architect, and Farhan was an IT guru. But they were all part of the mafia.

Layla nodded shyly while Mikail gave her another peck. She cleaned it off once more. He growled and whispered

"Stop wiping my pecks away girl!"

She smiled as he kissed her once again on her cheek. This time, she didn't clean it off. Mikail smiled at her and patted her softly on her head.

The whole family, begin singing and dancing to this.

Layla blushed and hid her pretty face in her palms. She saw Mikail and the boys off to work.

Munaiya pulled her in and screamed into her ears.

"LET'S GO GET A NEW LOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKK!!!!!" Layla cursed herself inwardly and smiles as Munaiya pulled her to her car and drove off to a beauty parlour.

Layla had her nails painted, her hair straightened and dyed a little lighter than usual her usual black hair. She had a slight make over and she bought a few goodies for Aunt Salima, the woman at the alleyway and her daughter.

She also got a Rolex Daytona watch for Mikail, sponsored by the Sassy princess Munaiya.

They drove to the alleyway and gave Aunt Salima the few goodies, before heading back to the Mansion.

Mikail was back, after a short while.

"You look more than beautiful Tomato" he complimented as she blushed deep red.

"Thank you Jammy" she whispered.

He held her hand gently and they waved everyone goodbye, before setting off to home.

When they got home, Layla made their bed and made dinner for Mikail like a good wife should. She begun getting along with him, so that was the least she could do.

She was going to be a good and respectful wife until this deal ended. But she wouldn't give him her virginity. Since this was just a contract.

Mikail came to the room later on, while she sat in the floor of the balcony, reminiscing about her whole life.

She knew he was there. She knew his cologne like the back of her palm.

"I got you something. It's on the bed" she said, without turning back to look at him.

He saw his gift and picked it up with a smile and paced towards her.

"Thank you Muhabun" he said.

She just nodded and smiled at him. He also gave her the new phone he had got for her, do that they could keep in touch everytime.

She said a slightly 'Thank you '

He was about to hug her from behind, when she turned round to leave.

She saw his open arms and just patted him on the back lightly as she walked into the room. She sat on the bed and massaged her head as she took off her hijab revealing her very long hair.

Mikail hadn't taken notice of her dyed hair and it's length.

"Did you dye your hair to make me repulse you?" He asked her.

She shook her head and looked away.

He nodded and asked further

"Is that your hair's actual length?"

She giggled and nodded.

He smiled at her widely and walked to the bed. He sat beside her and asked politely.

"Can I touch your hair?"

She blushed and nodded.

He dug his fingers into her hair and felt her delicate scalp.

He saw how relaxed she looked. He had found out one thing that relaxes her. He smiled and dug his nose into her hair. He loved the fragrance.

The fragrance of Layla's hair seduced him all the time. Her body was devised with perfection. He often stared at her so much that tears of joy escaped his eyes.

He finally had his baby, in his arms. He wasn't going to hurt her anymore.

Layla slowly fell asleep on his chest. He loved the feeling of having her in his arms. He lay down and soon doze off, ludicrous of what the whole world could hold against him.

As long as he had his angel in his arms, he couldn't thank his God enough.

He dreamt of nothing but her. After a long while of having restless nights, he finally has a sound sleep. With his Queen in his arms.

The Best Gift I Ever Had Was You. I Can't Think Of Anyone Better Or Equal To You. I Love You Baby. With Everything I Have.