Chapter 41

Dashtan hugged Rakia tightly in their drenched state.

“Thank God...,” he whispered while Rakia was still in his arms. He then broke the hug and looked at Rakia with a relieved look on her face.

“Come on, let’s go inside; you’ll catch a cold; you have to change,” Dashtan said, carrying Rakia in front of his body to enter the house. He dropped Rakia inside the woman’s bathroom per the woman’s instructions.

“You also change; please get me the bathrobe,” said Rakia, who was now sitting on the closed toilet of her bathroom. Dashtan complied and got up from his crouching position in front of Rakia.

“I’ll be right here after I change,” promised Dashtan, to which Rakia responded with a nod as she looked at the man with a weak smile of gratitude. As Dashtan left Rakia to get changed, he returned to the pool to retrieve Rakia’s walking stick, placed it in the living room, ran to his room to change quickly, and returned to Rakia’s room with the woman’s walking stick.

“Kia...,” Dashtan called, op