Chapter 37 / Part 2

"Do you know how I find relief from that pain? Only with you, when I'm by your side, when I look into your eyes, everything disappears. When we were engaged, you looked into my eyes and smiled. I thought, Habbab, only your mother looked at you like that, only your mother loved you in that way. Since then, I haven't known purity like that. You were the remedy, my pain, instant relief."

"So, why did you continue with that horrible plan? Why did you do it? You had to ruin everything beautiful."

"Melek, do you know how it feels to be trapped inside the heart and mind? The day I left you was the hardest day of my life. You don't know it, but I turned around, I was about to come back, and then my grandmother sent one of her men. Since that day, I've been in purgatory, suffering by your side, even if you don't believe it."

"I don't know..."

He silences me with a delicate gesture of his hand.

"This place is where they threw the flames at the prophet Ibrahim, but it's also where God extinguish