FORTEEN

“What do you want?” His voice echoed through the speaker as my breath got stuck in my larynx but the expecting eyes of Suzi and Areej made me clear my threat. Areej just rolled her eyes as she spoke up before he could hang up the phone out of frustration.

“Do you think I have patience for this?” His grumpy voice erupted making me gulp and Areej to make faces at the phone.

“Your wife wants to talk to you about something.” She informed as there was utter silence from the other side of the phone. He must have hated the word used by Areej…your wife.

“What is it?” After a while he asked again but this time it seemed like I had all his attention towards me. My palms got sweaty as I hated the fact that being a daughter of a strong independent woman, I still got panicked by just his authoritative voice. He had that affect one me or might be it was the fact that I was never around men before.

“I-I…” I trailed off as Suzi and Areej were looking at me with those rounded eyes as to warning me to