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Rashid’s first full s “Aht your scowl heart-stopping, your s”

And he treated her to another first, his unbridled guffaw

“Ahh” She lost all cohesion “I’ her to the incoonna live To love me and be loved by me”

Joy inundated her, that true ease had finally entered his heart andnot to push for the throne for now, she grinned widely back “All I ever wanted is to be yours, and for you to bewith his delight and devotion “Done And done”

Epilogue

Haidar and Jalal scowled at Rashid

He only raised serene eyes to thehted at how that still fazed them

Haidar blinked, as if to clear his eyes froht, and bit off the words, “You said a couple of months”

“And as sixhis ar hi on the job per so for half a year?”

Haidar huffed “Since you landed the bid, we rearranged our lives accordingly, and you ran and left us holding the baby”

He shrugged “I did so I can holdelse until I do”

“Just give us a straight answer, da his shoulder, looking deeply into his eyes “Are you really okay now?”

“Far better than you can iine” Rashid smiled at him, an act that came so easily to hi me with another onein about a week’s time”

Jalal sat on his other side “Then we can be allowed to have a piece of you? You can be a husband, a father and a friend, too, you know We’ve tried it and it works”

Rashid grinned at him “If I don’t expire of happiness when our baby boy is born, I’ll squeeze you, and the throne, onto my list of priorities”

Haidar rolled his eyes “Once we could never get you to crack a joke, now you’re alest pain in the ass, in being irreverent Laylah isn’t a enda!”

As Haidar and Jalal turned whiht with Laylah as she waddled down the stairs of their loft She becaht beamed off the brooch she alift to her

He had another gift for her now One fro at Haidar and Jalal “It’s a good thing you’re here to hear this I just learned this ed in” His ar who enco this ever since you ca to do with ”