As Melek's father, I also have to do some things for the wedding, like visiting the heads of the families of every important lineage in the city. The city we live in is governed by strict rules, by ancient and patriarchal idioms. The man is the one who rules everything, around here everyone is very long-lived, so most of those bosses are grandparents and even great-grandparents.I get home, tired, and ready to go to bed, when I find my wife and daughter, both on the terrace talking with some nostalgia, I can't help but sit and listen."You don't know how I missed seeing you in this house," Senay says to our daughter, then kisses her hair. Melek smiles at her mother and replies with words that touch my heart."I never thought I would miss this house so much. Well, I didn't really miss it, I missed your caresses, the soft sound of Daddy's heart when I lay on his chest, and my sister's joy that fills my heart. I miss you, Mom. There is nothing more important to me than my family. I could
Chapter 30ErdemHabbab has been my friend for as long as I can remember. We are brothers, even if our blood says otherwise. And it pains me to see him so desperate for a woman he shouldn't love.After he found out that Melek was marrying his cousin, he decided to leave the hospital straight home to get the necessary weapons and go kidnap his former girlfriend."Habbab, you must stop right now!" His grandmother yells at him, as the two of us walk into the family mansion on his heels. He goes upstairs to his room, like a soul who carries the devil, and we go in with him."Grandma, I told you. Leave me alone, I'm going to get my girlfriend.""Your girlfriend? Your enemy's daughter, you mean. This is crazy, grandson, stop it now.""My enemy? My enemy?" She spits at him sarcastically. "Honestly, Grandma I'm not sure the Erdoğan family is my enemy. Lately, I'm beginning to think that the only enemy for me is you.""What are you talking about ungrateful boy?""I want you to tell me the trut
"Please, Habbab." Derya laughs sarcastically. "Don't be ridiculous, that girl took off and left you lying in the hospital with a bullet in your stomach that you took for her. She abandoned you when you needed her the most. And she filled your head with lies and convinced you that her father is the good guy, when he really isn't."Derya, sighs, resigned, and grabs Java by the shoulder, infusing him with affection. She turns him around, so they are face to face, and strokes his face as a loving mother would."My boy, my grandson, my little baby. I told you not to let anyone else settle in your heart. That you would only keep your parents there and take revenge on their behalf.""Yes." My friend replies with his face filled with sadness and remorse. The pain emanating from her body is indescribable. And somehow I feel that Derya Arslan just got away with it.She squeezes her grandson's cheeks too hard."You didn't listen to me, you risked your life for that girl, you hid her, you protect
Chapter 31 MelekI remember waking up that morning to the news that my fiancé was waiting for me by the stables. I had no idea what he was doing there. In a couple of days, we would be man and wife and together for eternity. I loved him, and I was sure he loved me.So after I put on a simple burgundy dress, without eating, without combing my hair, barely putting on simple sandals, I ran down the stairs until I reached him.And there he was, Habbab, dressed in a navy blue suit, staring off into the distance, looking as handsome as ever. I tapped him on the shoulder as I called his name."What are you doing here, why are we meeting by the stables?" I asked him with a bright smile, as my body trembled with nervousness, a common effect I had when I was around him."Because I have to deliver something to you." He replied with a complicit look, he was up to something that was unknown to me."You said you were coming tomorrow to finalize the details of the wedding." In just three days, I wo
After having that dream, which made me remember that beautiful moment, which has now turned into a nightmare. I decide to stand up and get out of bed and get ready for the day.Today we are supposed to go get my dress for the henna ceremony. Just as I am ready to leave for breakfast, someone knocks on my door. I ask her to come in, and it's my mother, she asks me if I'm ready for shopping and if we can have breakfast outside, and I say yes.I think she's protecting me from my grandfather's pride. Honestly, it's better for me if I don't have to see him.We head out and an hour later we find ourselves in the most prestigious dress store in my town. Unfortunately, it's the only dress store Bindallis has. It was here that I also bought my dress for the wedding with Habbab. So the owner asks awkward questions as soon as she realizes we are purchasing the same wedding set."Who are you marrying now, dear?" She asks curiously but also denotes some malice in her question."That needn't matter
We had to postpone the Henna night. Because of my father's encounter with Habbab. Much to my regret, many people in the village, found out what happened and now, there is gossip.I don't know how to solve this situation, I don't want my grandfather to hurt me again, and I am sure he will, because every time, that we are on people's lips, for some inappropriate reason, he loses his head.My city is the host to the top brass of the Turkistani mafia, including my own grandfather. Everything is governed by the rules of men, and we, the women of the mafia, are in danger on a daily basis. All I know is that more than anything else in the world I want to be free and normal, my husband took that away from me.As I try to rest, tossing and turning in bed over and over again, I hear my bedroom door open. I sit up, to face the intruder, praying it's not my cousin, because right now I don't want to hear her annoying, spoiled child whining.However, it is not my cousin, but Habbab. I was dumbfound
Chapter 32HabbabHe stroked the back of my neck. I feel nervous, I don't know what to do, I have no idea how many times, Melek has rejected me. But now it's different, she's going to marry her cousin, I'm going to lose her.Last night she ran me out of her room like nothing mattered. I tried to give her a gift, token of my love, I risked my life entering her house, and still she told me to get out of her life.How can I do that? When the only thing on my mind is her."My God, what do I do?" I ask myself, as I even struggle to breathe. I am so restless.Suddenly my office door opens, I turn to yell at anyone who dares to interrupt me to get the hell out. And I realize it's Melek. She's wearing an olive-colored dress, but it's stained with blood, her blood. Her face has a huge bruise over her left eye, while her mouth and nose drip the red liquid."What happened to you?" I inquire worriedly. "Who did this to you?"She looks at me with deep pain in her eyes, completely broken and defeate
HabbabI am determined, I am going to get my wife back. I need to spend, some time next to Melek, to explain to her, that I love her, that she is important to me.I am going to save her and destroy this Çakir Erdoğan. He's not going to touch her ever again, not as long as I'm still alive.“That family, they're a parasite.” I say out loud, as Erdem looks at me curiously.“So, will you go through with the revenge?”“Yes, but I need to get Melek out of the middle of all this. I don't want her to suffer anymore.”“And what will you do?”“I'll go after her. Tonight, that Henna party, it won't happen, I won't allow it.”I grab my things to leave the office, I need to organize my thoughts. I need to find a way to take Melek and take her with me out of the country, it's the best option. I will take her away from all that suffering they cause her at home.She cannot marry Esat, She has not realized that if she does, she will remain under the yoke of her grandfather and her life will remain in