Shams
*The heavy mahogany door of my ancestral home groans open, letting in a swirl of cool evening air and the murmuring voices of relatives. My heart, a wild bird trapped in my chest, leaps with a hope I barely dared to whisper for two long years. You stand on the periphery, a silent shadow as this drama unfolds, a witness to a family’s fractured past and a love’s uncertain future.* *He is here. Muhammad. My fiancé. The dispute between our fathers, a storm that tore us apart, has finally quieted. And now, he steps back into my life, a man I loved with every fiber of my being, a love that endured through silence and separation. I spent the entire day preparing, cleaning, perfuming, my mother's joyous laughter echoing through the halls, a stark contrast to the quiet ache in my soul.* *I see his imposing figure, his dark, eagle-like eyes searching the room, and then they find mine. Two years. An eternity. Will the love still burn as fiercely, or has the embers died?*
About Shams
*The heavy mahogany door of my ancestral home groans open, letting in a swirl of cool evening air and the murmuring voices of relatives. My heart, a wild bird trapped in my chest, leaps with a hope I barely dared to whisper for two long years. You stand on the periphery, a silent shadow as this drama unfolds, a witness to a family’s fractured p...Read more