So did we end up going out in the middle of the night to search for Ines in the streets of D city?
That would have been very cool actually, since I've never had such an experience in my life, but No, we didn't.
It was all because of me actually.
When we were about to leave the room, Eliyas quickly grabbed the thermometer which was carelessly thrown on top of the bed then he measured my fever again.
This time round.. It was 38,4 °c.
So Eliyas's genius idea of putting me in a bathtub full of warm water not only did nothing to me.. It made my situation even worse.
Of course I didn't need to comment or even move my eyebrows, the moment my husband saw my new temperature he realized he wasn't destined to be a doctor for a reason: because he's a failure obviously.
Anyways, I was finally allowed to take medication, we waited for 5 minutes for a reason only god and Eliyas know, then my temperature was taken again.
The thermometer showed the same result.
I mean, what was he even thinking??I was really not following at this point.
Eliyas was finally convinced of whatever nonsense he was thinking, and he said:
_" Ok, let's just go, we'll keep you warm in the car, if ever you feel that you're not ok tell me immediately."
I nodded.. Then simply followed him out of the room.
Once we arrived at his office, the team leader, who was already waiting for us there for long minutes, surprisingly informed us:
_"We have already found Miss Filladi, she's on her way back to the villa Now."
So yes ladies and gentlemen, I dressed up for nothing.
_" where was she?" Eliyas asked.
The team leader seemed very confused as he replied:
_" on her way to the hospital."
_"Why?" I spoke my thoughts.
I mean, why would she go to the hospital so late? was she sick?
What are the chances of us both falling sick at the same time? If we were living in the ancient times, I'd say our food was poisoned, but we both didn't even eat much to begin with.
_"there is nothing wrong with Miss Filladi's health, She refused to tell us anything, She will be here in few minutes." the team leader explained.
What he meant was: "don't ask me anything because I know nothing!"
Eliyas and I, soon left his office and we went directly to Ines's room, mainly to search for any clues, at least this was my motive, as for Eliyas, who looked very angry by the way, he pretended that he was there just for sight seeing while waiting for the owner of the room to come back to punish her for her reckless behavior, namely his sister Ines.
Once we walked inside, i figured out that since we were already rude and went there in her absence, why don't we be more rude and see if she left something behind?
There was nothing unfortunately, in this era where everything is done by phones, people don't leave paper notes anymore.
_" come sit down Noursine, please." Eliyas said with a displeased and impatient tone once I started checking the paintings she hang in her room.
I ignored all his not so good mood and I asked:
_"Are these paintings old?"
_" How should I know?" he replied coldly
Those paintings looked awfully familiar, this was why my curiosity was suddenly stirred. Whenever I visited Ines's room before, I never paid attention to them, because I always felt very uneasy and just wanted to get out as soon as possible, now that I was very idle and I had the heart to even search for the cracks in the walls, I finally noticed those paintings.
I almost burned all my nerves before I finally remembered where I saw them before!
_" these were at Aziz's apartment !! I helped him choose them!" I excitedly and stupidly announced.
Well, the reason for my being totally stupid telling my current husband that the belongings of my ex boyfriend's apartment are hanging in his most precious villa, the reason is the said above: i burned almost all my nerves.
In mere seconds, my ruthless husband was already icily walking towards me with a deadly expression on his face, I didn't even dare blink when he finally stood in front of me.
While dreadfully and intensely looking inside my eyes, he calmly asked:
_" you've been to his apartment before?"
_" of course not! It's like I said, I helped him shop for his furniture, I chose these paintings for him!"
He nodded, then terrifyingly commented:
_" I see, you chose red paintings with red frames that have sparkling heart shapes inside, it even says je t'aime ( I love you), they are very masculine and fit for a man's apartment."
I tried to laugh the matter, and said:
_" My taste was very poor."
_" Indeed it was." He replied rudely.
He walked pass me towards the paintings, then while taking them off of the wall he continued:
_"Your taste was very poor in both art and men, Fortunately it improved now."
_" what are you doing Eliyas? You can't just come to someone else's room and start messing with his belongings!" I yelled feeling frustrated!
Well, these siblings are already on bad terms, and now he's messing with her room! Plus, Ines will know for sure that I had a part in this, I mean, how else would Eliyas just randomly pick the only things related to Azziz out of all the items in her room? he's either a deity or simply his wife helped him! I don't need to use much intellect to predict a war happening soon Ines reaches the villa, the innocent me would be greatly involved in between!
Eliyas, of course, pretended like he heard nothing I said.
He held those paintings then steadily walked towards the bathroom like I was thin air, I followed him all the way almost begging him to just put the paintings back to their original spot.
Once we walked inside the bathroom, I realized I wasn't thin air at all in my husband's eyes!
He threw those two paintings near the trash bin since they were bigger to fit inside, then he suddenly turned to look at me.
He slammed the bathroom door shut, then caged me between him and the door!
His eyes that stared at me were full of pure anger, I felt terrified and immediately stopped talking.
He finally said:
_" He, and his belongings, and everything about him, they all belong to the trash Noursine, don't you dare defend them in front of me."
I nodded like a docile wife, only a fool would dare to object in such situation anyways.
I guess this small gentle nod I made pleased my husband endlessly, because his previous hostility all vanished in a matter of a second.
Or maybe I was exquisitely beautiful while looking at him in that position, because his anger not only disappeared, he even started looking at me with mischief in his eyes.
_"Noursine." He suddenly whispered my name.
I was standing right there in front of him, so calling my name was needless and unnecessary of course, it's just that he particularly loves my name so much.
I naturally didn't reply.
He slowly bent, pecked my forehead, then sighed.
_" you're still feverish." He announced very displeased.
He remained silent for a bit, then surprisingly added:
_" you enjoy tempting me in the wrong times, don't you? When you were in the bathtub, out of all your night gowns, how come you specifically wore a see through today? I had to think of a million things just to stay calm and act decent in your presence, and now you're giving me that look I always loved, Noursine, You're making things very hard for me, can we just ignore your fever and our current location?"
I laughed happily while hearing these words.
Isn't he making things even harder for me on a daily 24/7 basis!
I'm not sure if I made this point clear already, my husband is irresistibly tempting!
I will not further detail in this, I just want you to be aware that I wasn't only thinking about my fever when I was in the bathtub, I'm not a saint.. I definitely wasn't.
Since your girl never misses a chance, I cheekily hugged Eliyas's neck and I said:
_"We're still in our house! And Who told you to think about my fever? It's ok as well to be more feverish."
And this is, ladies and gentlemen, how I officially became the villain in my sister in-law's life.
Not only I dated her ex, and hid this fact from her.
It's because of me that Eliyas met Nadir who is now about to marry her.. Pretty much against her will.
Not only that, I further more went to her room, pointed out her most precious memories of her love which she dearly hang on the wall and made my husband throw them in the trash.
Now I'm shamelessly kissing her brother in her bathroom right after doing all of that!
If these are not the deeds of a villain then I don't know what else is.
But who cares!
When being in Eliyas's embrace, and being touched by him.. Kissed passionately and overwhelmed by his restless desire, why would things like being a villain in someone else's story even matter to me?
Well, actually the rest of the world still matters so much unfortunately.
While we were kissing, the worst scenario ever happened to my horror, Ines came back to her room!
Having sharp ears of course became a big disadvantage for me, since while someone was still busy kissing the life out of me, it was up to me, the very weak.. Very tempted person, to stop the beast immediately!
I pushed him away with all my might and i whispered while gasping for air:
_"Ines is back!"
This is what I heard in my imagination actually, since in real life what I wanted to say came out as an incoherent and undistinguishable sentence which made Eliyas only stare at me feeling very confused.
Thank god Ines made her entry as loud as possible, the moment she walked inside her room she yelled at the top of lungs:
_"How dare you come inside my room!!"
Once I heard this roar, my soul almost left my body!!
I mean, How did she even know we were in her room? We were in the bathroom, the door was closed, and we didn't leave our shoes inside the room nor anything else! Unless she's a Jin( ghost/ devilish creature) who can see through walls, there's no other explanation for her phenomenal powers!
To both my surprise and relief, it turned out she wasn't addressing us actually.
Soon she finished yelling, I heard a male voice replying:
_" You dared to slam the door shut in my face when I'm still talking with you then I dare open it and finish what I had to say Miss Filladi! You have your self respect, so do I!"
_"Is this Akrem?" Eliyas whispered sounding very surprised while standing in front of me.
I nodded, then asked him to remain silent and calm.
Since we were going to get embarrassed once we walk out of the bathroom anyways, it was better if we only met Ines alone, it's unnecessary to expose our awkward situation in front of Akrem as well.
Eliyas shared my same line of thinking, his reputation in front of his employees matters to him a lot obviously.
So we both calmly and sneakily hid in the bathroom, and patiently waited for Akrem to leave.
_" What difference would it have made if you went to see him in the hospital? After all he did to you, do you still believe he will simply love you back if you were there by his side during this time?" Akrem said.
Before I even had time to wonder what he meant by this, Ines added:
_" Do you think I'm that silly? I had my reasons! I don't have any obligation to explain them to you!"
_" Do you have any idea about the risk you were going to put your self in? Do you even know how dangerous Azziz is? He's after Eliyas, It's not a joke, Your brother is keeping him behind the bars for a reason___"
_" Azziz is in the hospital?" I whispered very surprised interrupting our eavesdropping session.
Well, I only spoke my head because I was surprised, still someone stared at me so terrifyingly that I decided never to mention Azziz again in this lifetime.
He bent his head so close to me, then icily whispered:
_" why should his life or death matter to you?"
I quickly and sneakily pecked his lips and said:
_"they don't! Of course they don't! Why are forgetting today how much I love you?"
You see, It is necessary sometimes to act this childish to save the one's life, once I did this silly thing, my husband was so satisfied, he even pecked me back.
Well, I shall say he kissed me back.
So there we were, the second round of kisses inside his sister's bathroom with his sister only few steps away this time.
Of all the awkward "what the hell I'm doing" adventures I had in my life, this one should be in the top 10!
The second kiss didn't last for so long, once we finished Eliyas looked at me and started laughing, his eyes were genuinely happy.
And he whispered:
_"I love you , you crazy, so much."
At that moment, I remembered that Eliyas didn't have much chances to act reckless in his life, being the strict and serious man that he had to be, this small kiss must have been very exciting for him.
His happiness was so infectious.. I felt so overwhelmed with it that I promised my self to make him enjoy his days with me to the utmost i can offer.
You see, love makes us want to do this.. Offer happiness in exchange for receiving a smile.
Even when this happiness is obtained with silly , stupid and risky actions.
When we were finally back on planet earth, the discussion outside drastically changed, I have no idea how things ended up this way but what I heard was Ines crying and yelling:
_" I wanted to know whether he saw me as a woman! For only once!"
And to this, Akrem replied dramatically:
_" You don't need any man's validation! You're very charming, very desirable, If he couldn't see this then he's just blind!"
How did their discussion develop from slaps on the face to this? I have no idea.
After these words were said, a long silence followed in the room outside.
Eliyas and I waited for a very, very long time.. Then we tacitly agreed that it was fine getting embarrassed if front of two people! It's ok to lose the one's reputation as well!!
We just opened the door and we walked out there Ready for the storm and fire!
To our surprise though, the room was empty.
It was empty!!!
Needless to express our joy! We practically flied our way out of the room! We closed the door carefully, then we tiptoed on our way to the stairs.
Eliyas's happiness was short lived though, since at the end of the long corridor, we witnessed something very sinful.
Ines and Akrem.. Kissing!!!!!
Oh.. my dear ..merciful ..god.
Hell will come to earth.