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“Ahebbek, aashagek, ya Carmen Enti koll shai eli”

Carmen’s consciousness didn’t waver this ti from Farooq’s lips had blown it wide-open Blown her away

I love you, I worship you You’re everything to ht, filled with hi…

She felt him tear himself from her depths, pounce on her “Ya Ullah, Carotten how He shook her and air rushed in, al relief, felt his kisses scorch off her skin, heard herself croak, “You said…said…”

“Ahebbek? Aashagek? Amoot feeki? And I would die for you”

“Stop, Farooq, stop…it’s tooyou are, everything you make me feel There’s no one like you You own me Enti habibati el waheeda, hob hayati Enti hayati Ana melkek”

You’re my only love, the love of my life You are my life I am yours Too much “But hohen…?”

“How can I not love you and only you? You are not tailor-made for me, you are created for me by God As for when, froain in every moment”

“But I never dreamed…”

“I never dreamed a woman like you existed But you do, and you’re mine as I’ive you up?

“Carnificent face incandescent dimmed “You’re not happy that I…?”

He stopped, as if he felt her anguish, and it hurt hied into him, buried him under a storm of kisses and tears “I’m not happy, somoak Happiness is an eure me, overwhelm me No None of that does you justice I’ll have to invent neords to describe you, your effect, what you ed up, his face a display of all she’d attributed to him “And you dare wonder how I love you? It took all I had, trying not to love you All les made me love you ain He now thought them tears of jubilation As they were Jubilation with an expiration date “Oh, darling…what I feel for you…that you feel the same way…then you call oddess…you’re ive you all of it, ya habibati”

She crashed her lips to his, silencing him Every word, every expression on his adored face was i the spears into her deeper She panted for mercy “Habibi, er-ruhmuh…”

He crushed her to hi her with his euphoria until e for a faster descent into deliriuer was satisfied She lay cocooned in his strength, his cherishing are to encompass, that she inspired the same emotions, the same devotions in him