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Chapter 89: Birthday Etiquette
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2026-07-01 03:01:40
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"It is not birthday etiquette." "Is it not." He reached for the cake. She ran. He caught her in three steps and she was laughing — actually laughing, the real one, the one that had been absent from her face for weeks — and Riyana was chasing both of them in circles shouting "MOMMY RUN" without any clear allegiance to either party. When it was over — cake on both of them, Riyana thoroughly satisfied, Farisa already photographing everything — Faiyaz looked at her. "Bake me my cake," he said. "The lemon one. Properly. Tonight." "You just had cake." "That was an assault. I want the real one." "That is incredibly entitled." "It is my birthday." She looked at him. "Fine," she said. Riyana tugged her sleeve. Hard. "Mommy Can I help?" she said. Looking up with the full force of everything she had. "Yes, You can help," Zoya pinched her cheek. Riyana pumped her small fist. ⸻ The kitchen smelled like butter and warm sugar. Riyana had positioned herself on th
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 89: Birthday Etiquette
She looked up from her napkin. "I'm not walking away." "I know you aren't. But what happens if you did?" She looked back out at the dark water. "The people who were targeted lose their recourse." "Besides that." "The framework Loujain built stays perfectly intact." "Besides that, Zoya." She didn't answer. "You go home," Faiyaz said. "You go back to LA. To Riyana. To Joseph. To a regular life that doesn't involve seeing him across a corridor every single morning." He tilted his head slightly, studying her face. "That is not the worst outcome in the world." "Faiyaz." "I am completely serious." "I know you are." She looked back at him, her hazel eyes heavy. "That is exactly why I am not engaging with the question." He leaned back against the cushion of his chair. "You are the most stubborn person I have ever met in my life. And I went to school with Amer." "Amer is not stubborn," she countered quietly. "Amer is simply wrong about everything he says and refuses to
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"Ms. Fayez—" "Elle." She looked at her. "You know what to do if anything feels wrong." "Yes." She left. Zoya got in the car alone. ⸻ She noticed it at the first light. A black SUV. Two cars back. Nothing unusual about it except the way it moved — not with traffic, with her. Hanging back just enough to look incidental. She changed lanes. It changed lanes. She turned left at the next intersection without signalling. It turned left. She kept her hands steady on the wheel and her face neutral and her mind completely cold. She had seen this pattern before. Not recently. Before. In Edinburgh. In Dubai. The patience of people who had been told to follow rather than stop. She took the next right. Then an immediate left down a service road she had clocked weeks ago — a gap between two parking structures, too narrow for anything larger than a sedan. The SUV didn't follow. She drove two blocks. Checked the mirror. Nothing. Another block. Still nothing. She e
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