Chapter 11

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Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden whose width is that (of the whole) of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the righteous,-

(Abdulrahim's POV)

We arrived as early as 10am in Nigeria and I head straight to the office while Uncle Shehu's driver drove him home. I already miss Ahlam, oh lord I want to spend every second of my entire life with her, she's just perfect, perfectly mine In shaa Allah.

"Morning sir" my assistant Ada said following me inside my office

"Morning" I replied sitting on my bossy chair

"How was the trip sir?" she asked

"it was good, very good" I say relaxing back on the chair "How's work?"

"it was hectic but thankfully you're back, you have a meeting in an hour with the board, another meeting with our potential investor and a lunch with Miss Nabiha" she announced

"No, no meetings today please, cancel them all and fix them tomorrow. Today is paperwork only. Including the lunch"I say and she nods obediently

"I'll get right to it sir" and with that she left

HOURS LATER

"Abdul Yane (what's up?)" we shake hands and did the side hug thing.

"Lafiya fah (fine) I'm just glad everything has been settled"I say as we both sit down

"Wallahi, Amma naji dadi da suka dan Baka wiya (I swear, but I am happy they made it hard for you) you always get things easily so I'm glad this happened" I gave him a glare but he shrugged laughing it off

"How is she?" Mahmud asked picking the nuts that was kept at the end of my table

"She's good Alhamdulilah, very good" I smiled

Mahmud bursts into laughter and I frowned "What? mai kake dariya?(why are you laughing?)" I asked

"Nothing" he muffled trying to stifle his laughter "what are you going to do about Nabiha, I thought you loved her"

"hmmmm Nabiha, yes I do love her but I like Ahlam so much, she's the one I want to call my wife not Nabiha" I said

"so you're keeping 2, sannu fah alhaji (weldone sir)" he says dramatically saluting me "Wife and mistress. it's not going to be easy"

"I didn't say that I'll keep a wife and a mistress, I'll never do that to Ahlam. I like Nabiha because she's crazy and she's a good friend"

"friends with benefits bah" Mahmud said

"No, sort of but I haven't done anything with her again since that night, I promise"

"So you're telling me you haven't held her hand, or kissed her, or hugged her" he smirks

"No that one is different and I won't do that again now that I am engaged" I said "and stop judging as if you're innocent"

"I'm just saying not judging" he raised his arms in surrender

"Get out of my way" we heard a familiar voice saying

"I'm sorry ma but he asked me not to let anyone in today" Ada said and the door was pushed open

Nabiha walked in to the centre of my office and paused folding her arms. I signaled for Ada to leave us.

"Nabiha" Mahmud said but she didn't spare him a glance, her eyes were fixated at me and she looked pissed

"Why did you cancel our lunch?" she asked placing her hands on her hips like every African mum does when scowling her child

"I think I should go" Mahmud said standing up

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