evastating painful- I felt like the very core of my being was

letely hidden away in the black bruises and the swelling around her eye sockets. Her beautiful cheeks and clear skin was completely blemished with clots and cuts that just looking at her made

hadi

lovely

or ever thought of you as useless. Now I realize that w

er's slowly on her left cheek that was bare. My chest got s

sed my head and viewed the monitor that detected

lung has collapsed. So we need to prep her for surger

papers blankly until I felt her light touch on my

that we can and leave the rest in God's hands." She said and tr

do now is pray." S

ay

who

red any one and had nothing to lose. Me, who thought that I could have anything and everything that I w

I see thi

I lost the most precious things that I ever ask for-I lost bo

ijah to the operation the

help but break down in tears. The face that was onc

e as I bent down to kiss her forehead. I took her

o us all of a s

d the lullaby that Khadijah had once played and closed my eye

pose that the baby will like it?" she a

t her and caught

s just so cute. I brushed my lips slowly against hers as my hands travelled on her belly. She chuckled against my lips as my f

e in her weight as I took her to her armchair near the window where the sun li

; although I couldn't hear the baby's

and a certain serenity shrouded my entire being. I still couldn't believe that I was about to b

t I am actually going to become a father, the feeling is completely overwhelming and now I feel kind of unprepared. I didn't anticipate it so soon but now that it has been done, I'm sort of intimidated. I want to give my child all that I could never have as a child-loving parents, a moth

h?" I mu

s." She

lared and straightened up. Her eyes glimme

I want to make this promise be

ut it." she joked. I frowned and s

me. From now on, you and the bay will always come first." I pronounced

nt of discontentment lacing her tone; I know why she feels the way she feels and I don't blame; I have cause

g band around her ring finger sh

bled. "But still I'm very serious."

our goal?" she ask

re important than any goal or agenda." I said. in her

n't be able to live in peace so from now onwards, I give up on anything that will endanger me or you or hurt our family.

owed. She touched my cheek and her so

I couldn't even k

s and saw my da

couldn't even protect you." I grumbled and

and now. . . . I'm

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