Once Eliyas and I reached our room I was feeling so scared that I even started having an imaginary pain in my bruised shoulder!
I immediately ran to the mirror, threw away Eliyas's jacket and started turning around my self to fully inspect my shoulder like a dog chasing its tail.
When I fell earlier, the incident sure was very dramatic but I didn't expect it would leave a large bruise that even the usually neutral Nadir couldn't resist making a remark about it!
_" wait!" Eliyas soon ordered while standing right behind me.
Hearing how serious his tone was, I froze on my spot like a statue, and only kept looking at his reflection on the mirror.
I'm thankful Eliyas never planned to be a doctor, since If this was the case, he would for sure be nicknamed:Â "doctor Azraeel (death angel)" or " the doctor with the stare that kills", I mean besides his profound lack of the basic talent in this field, he would have no mercy for the patients nerves and can literally make any health problem seem like a matter of life and death thanks to his everlasting seriosity.
Many sickly people were spared from torture since he chose the business path, although I can't say less lives are sadly sacrificed, he's still a tyrant beast in this field after all.
So yes, the phobic me had to endure him staring at my back as If I was seriously and permanently injured, as if that was not enough, he even sighed and looked so pensive.
When I thought he couldn't possibly scare the life out of me even more than this, to my confusion, he suddenly held the zipper at the back of my dress and he slowly opened it!
Realizing that I was being undressed in a very inappropriate time, I couldn't help but blush of nervousness.
_" what are you doing?" I muttered like if I was never touched by that man.
He didn't even raise his eyes to look at mine, and naturally ignored my question as well.
soon he finished opening my dress and his fingertips touched the skin on my lower back, he pushed away my dress sides exposing my back and shoulders.
Ladies and gentleman, your girl was about to vomit her heart from the intensity of the situation!
I reflexively put my arms around my chest to prevent the dress from falling on the ground while my breaths started to quicken, again, I was weirdly acting like a new bride around my husband.
Few moments later, and before my thoughts drifted further and dirtier, the silent Eliyas finally decided to talk, he sighed while looking at my body then asked:
_" Did the doctors do a full examination at the hospital?"
Honestly, I was a bit disappointed, I thought he was attempting to do something else especially that he started acting weird without guiding my astray head with a proper explanation, so when I realised he was just purely checking my bruises my racing heart soon turned cold.
_" I don't know, I was unconscious, they probably did." I carelessly replied.
_" How exactly did you fall?" The ultimately unromantic him asked.
Being the tolerant person that I am, I gave him a detailed explanation of the accident from beginning to end so as he won't ask me any further question.
But a heartless man always manages to find a way to torture a woman's heart, when I finished talking, he still stupidly asked:
_" earlier, did you measure your temperature like I told you?"
At this point, I simply gave up.
I turned around to face him and coldly said:
_" I didn't, and if I measure it now, I bet it will be so cold that you'll think the thermometer is broken."
I walked away from him trying to zipper my dress again, although I felt that my wounded arm was turning very sore with my actions I still refuses to grimace from the pain in front of that man!
But I miserably failed half way.
He eyed me with his peripheral vision, then calmly said:
_" You should change this dress, I don't like it."
I was planning to change it after I failed to zipper it by my self anyways, so I didn't object, still I felt it was necessary to remind him:
_" It was you who chose it, since you don't like it, then why buy it for me in the first place?"
_" I was blind." He coldly replied.
He walked to the closet, then as he carelessly took out a dark blue dress and handed it to me, he helped me open the zipper of my dress again and commented while stepping away:
_" this one is better."
_" this one is for winters!" I yelled while examining the dress.
Not only it would cover every inch of my body, the fabric was so thick that i would probably choke from the heat in it, we were still only in September!
When I received no reply, I hastily stepped closer to the closet and started looking for another dress, while doing that I impatiently reminded him:
_"the sleeves are tight as well, they will hurt me on the abrasions__"
I barely finished speaking when he suddenly wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me towards him.
Given the first incident happening only few minutes earlier, I hardened my heart and refused to let my thoughts drift away.
I took a deep breath and asked firmly:
_"what are you doing?"
He ignored my question this time as well, not because he was acting cold, the reason was his mouth becoming busy doing another task.
He kissed me!
He slowly kissed my back tracking my spine, then as he carefully took off my dress he showered every piece of skin that he unveiled with his passion.
I naturally lost control of my heart and thoughts under the mercy of his touches, and only felt overjoyed because finally, heavenly finally he was back to me!
I don't know whether he already forgave me, but who cares!
He soon made me turn to face him, and passionately kissed my lips.
I really missed him, so much that I was eager for more and more of him.
So as we kissed I too started undressing him, but I barely undone a couple of buttons of his shirt when he suddenly stopped kissing me and leaned his forehead on mine while breathing hardly.
He then whispered with a hoarse voice:
_" We need to go down to have the dinner with our guests."
Finding his words painfully logical, I nodded in agreement.
_" I'll help you put on your dress, don't move your arm so much."
I nodded again.
Then I let him help me wear my clothes like if I was a lifeless doll, this task took a lot of time If I must admit, since someone didn't only "purely" help me.
After he was finally done, he fixed his shirt, stroke my hair gently behind my ears then gave me a very satisfied look while smiling joyfully.
_" do I look that pretty?" I asked mischievously.
He nodded while smiling even wider.
Then he quickly held my hand and dragged me out of the room.
You see, only when I reached the end of the corridor that it finally downed to me:
" that shameless man tricked me!! He made me wear the dark blue dress he wanted!! He kissed my brains out of my head only to trick the foolish me!!! "
And I so naively was holding his hand and smiling like a brainless!
I naturally pushed his hand away once I had my brain back, then coldly said to him:
_" such a sneaky man, aren't you ashamed?"
He laughed soundly without saying a thing, then insisted on holding my hand again until we reached our guests.
They were back from the garden and sitting again at the guests hall, once their eyes landed on Eliyas standing beside me, Mr seddiki and Mrs Ghalwan acted like if they were looking at liquid gold. They bombarded him with a thousand questions to which he mostly only nodded or shook his head.
As for Mrs Seddiki who earlier tried to act funny with me, she kept sitting on the sofa eying us with a pale face, I daringly stared at her and gave her a wide grin, consequently, her face turned even paler.
Feeling very satisfied, I held Eliyas's arm tighter and I dragged him to sit on the sofa beside me showering all the present people with my smiles.
When we properly sat down, Nadir soon asked me:
_" Noursine, is your shoulder better now?"
What shoulder? I forgot I had a shoulder the moment I walked inside the room with that tricky and unpredictable husband of mine!
I didn't get the chance to answer him anyways, Since the unpredictable man sitting beside me suddenly decided to become a very chatty person, he replied:
_" Mr Ghemmari, I appreciate your concern over the well being of my wife, it's unnecessary though, I attentively examined her body and I found no necessity to send her back to the hospital again."
Once he finished speaking I felt my cheeks blushing, I mean, he didn't need to mention 'attentively examining my body' in front of his whole family and a bunch of strangers!
_" I'm relieved now." Nadir calmly said with a smile.
When I thought it was finally my mother in-law's turn to brag about anything in front of our guests, Eliyas strangely spoke again:
_" Mr Ghemmari, You seem so friendly with my wife although you only met for a couple of times before, your social skills are so admirable indeed, since my wife usually isn't so keen on befriending new people."
As I turned to gaze at Eliyas wondering why my social skills were being unfairly roasted, Nadir laughed soundly while replying:
_" I must disagree with you Mr Filladi, I think Noursine is quite the opposite actually, the very first time we met she took me to a hawthorn tree at the top of the hill and forced me to climb it to help her collect the fruit, I don't think she's reserved with people, she's only finding it hard to digest and adjust in a different community."
I must say that Nadir is very deserving of his job as a lawyer, not only he can read people accurately, he is very confident in expressing his opinion as well!
As I was looking at Nadir full of praises, Eliyas strangely commented:
_" don't you think she was being quite the opposite with you Mr Ghemmari? If forcing you to climb a tree that is full of thorns isn't an act of unfriendliness then I don't know what else it is, she was a lot gentler with me, she spent her savings buying me the hawthorns she loved the most."
Needless to say it, I cracked my head open still I failed to find not a single time I spent any of my savings buying Eliyas hawthorns, even that one time we shared a bag of the fruit, it was bought using Nana's money!
So yes, he was shamelessly lying in front of my face, and although I had a very strong sense of justice, I still dared not to correct him.
Am I missing something though? Why was he suddenly acting so fierce against his future brother in-law? It was probably him who offered him the job at filladi to begin with and probably him as well who suggested the marriage first, since it was him who brought him closer to the family, then why is he suddenly acting this weird?
_" Noursine." Nadir suddenly called my name asking for my attention.
Once I turned to look at him again he directly asked:
_" were your purposes unfriendly when you exploited my kindness the first time we met?"
Feeling like if I was savagely interrogated in a court room, I gulped nervously and replied:
_" of course not! I was being sincere!"
_" Sincere in what?" Eliyas icily asked while looking at me with a dark expression.
What the hell is this situation!!!