Lahat ng Kabanata ng Hearts On Fire: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 18

The chatter of his cousins, whom he could hardly point five together with their names nearly silenced the rummaging thoughts rumbling in his brain, but nothing worked. On their way to Mabera, to his wife as Ummah said, he had nothing going on in his head but how to perfectly put on the fire he promised for Fatima Zarah, even though Ummah asked him to be a good husband. He couldn’t, because he had never did what Ummah asked of him. If only she acted as Mama Fulani. They arrived in front of the huge ironed gate and came out of the car, waiting for their arrival to be announced t

She wanted to argue, but she knew the royal traditions had to be followed wherever she was and whoever she was. She heard the ringing of her phone and the one she learnt of her name as Sadiya rushed to her bag and she brought her phone for her. Seeing it was Ammi calling, she psoke to them before she picked the call. “Will you please give me some time to answer this call?” she asked, and they nodded their heads before they walked out of the room. Ammi was sharp and straight when Fatima Zarah picked call, “What has gotten into your head, Fatima?!” She heard th

She quickly peeled her hands off from him when they got to the car and he chuckled with a voice that spoke something only him knew of. He entered the drivers seat and she entered the passengers seat before they drove off. They were driving in silence when Fatima Zarah turned to look at him, “Will you please stop by at my house? I need to get something from Ammi, her driver is not around and I need it now.” He didn’t look at her nor acted as if he heard her and he kept driving, “I’m talking to you, Al-mustapha. I need to get my bangles, you can see I hav

Fatima Zarah had never being pained like this, she couldn’t even tell Ammi that Lily was murdered by her so called husband. She laid there silently on her bed, crying her eyes out. If someone was to see her now and with such intensity she was crying with, one will think she had lost her parent, the only one she ever had. But no one will ever understand the pain she was going through was something unexplainable, and each time she remembered their moments with Lily, she couldn’t stop her tears. She had prayed her Isha in that phase and as she sat down silently in her room,