Love Untangled - Chapter 166

Saphira

Feeling stupid… I walked back inside the hall where the party was. It was stupid to hide. So i Turner around and walked straight ahead.

Finally I found Farida. “Hey.” I said out of breath. She smiled at me and went on talking to the rest of the group of woman. It was of course Arabic, so I could not mingle in what they were saying.

Why was Lynn not here?

I tried to blend in by talking to the other woman, but I had a hard time overcoming the language barrier. I sighed. I had stood there for over an hour and no one really bothered to inclusief me. So I told Farida that I was going to find Lynn.

Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. The King’s second wife was the center of attention tonight. She even had her husbands full attention as well.

The other wives were sitting in a corner in the hall. I did not think that Benjamin would have that many wifes. If he would have more than one, I could only imagen him taking two as a max.

A group of men were dancing in the middle of the grand hall. The music was loud and I felt completely lost. On my way out I noticed Malik, who was talking to someone. He noticed me too and I saw that he excused him self to his conversational partner.

It was clear that he was going to approach me and my heartrate instantly went up. I needed to get out of here and I quickly turned around and walked towards the exit. Why did he make me so nerves?

I was glad when I had made it out of the grand hall and entered. I was pondering on where to go to when I heard someone call me. Shoot. “Saphira.” Malik said.

“I feel like you are avoiding me.” Malik stated as he went to stand inches away from me.

“I am not avoiding you at all.” I said and raised my chin. “You are not?” He mused with a hint of a smile. “I am certainly not.” I announced. “Then you will not mind to walk with me through the palace halls either.” He offered.

“Yikes.” I blurted out. Malik frowned. “You do not like talking to me?” He asked skeptically.

“To be very honest with you Malik, I really do not know what you want from me. You keep coming up to talk to me, on various occasions… you invite me to go to parties with you.” I ranted

“I had invited lots op people.” He corrected me. His chocolate eyes seemed liquid again. I put my hands on my hips.

“Do not count me as a fool.” I snapped. “I am aware of the fact that you had never before asked that group of woman to join you and come on… you stood behind my bedroom door, in order to wait for my answer.” I grumped

“Okay, you have got me.” He said and licked his lips. “I do not know what is wrong with me either, but I keep on wanting to save you.” He said with a whole lot of hand gestures.

“To save me?” He said astonished.

“Yes. You seem like you are lost here.” He said lowering his voice and I saw that he was looking around to see if anyone heard him.

“I am not lost.” I snapped.

“You are lying again…” He said waving his index finger at me.

“Just now when you were talking to Farida, you felt lost.” He told me. “YOU SPIED ON ME!” I said incredulous.

Malik sharply blew out. “Fine.” He spoke. “Then I will leave you alone from now.” He announced.

Malik turned around and walked away from me. Although I gave him reason to do so… it kind of stinged anyway.

“Arrghh!” I muttered as I walked towards my bedroom.

I took my phone and called Benjamin. The phone rang two times and then he picked up.

“Hey Ben…” I trailed off. It was quiet on the other side of the line. “I know that you said that I should not call you and that we already have said out goodbye’s… but… Ben… I need to… to… talk to you.” I said and my stomach twisted.

He still said nothing. “Benjamin would you please say something.” I asked.

“Anything.” I pleaded.

“Saphira, listen to me know and listen very carefully.” I head a woman say. It was definitely Jasmine.

“Stop calling m husband.” She spat at me.

“Wether I do or do not call Benjamin is literally none of your business.” I calmy said. “That is where you are completely wrong. Benjamin, my husband, is my business. And just to make it clear, he is not YOUR business. So stop making a fool of yourself. Give up!” She said.

I wanted to strangle that little neck of she think she was to talk to me like that.

“Put Benjamin on the phone.” I said with authority. “He has told you that he does not want to hear from you again.” Jasmine said. She made my blood boil.

“Jasmine, Benjamin would never ignore me if I had called him.” I said in truth and she knew it. “Then why don’t you stop calling him?” She said bitterly.

“Because I love him.” I said not denying it. “And you know that he loves me as well, don’t you?!” I hissed at her.

“Saphira… you are nothing to him you have never even been his girlfriend.” She said. That hurt. Ben had never made it official and that…. Had hurt me in more ways than I could describe.

“Do not forget the fact that I was supposed to be his wife, and you were only to be his wife in name only because he took pity on you.” I said bitterly.

“Sorry Saphira…. You live in a fairytale world, grow up and let him go.” She said. Her voice was calm but sharp as knives.

“And Saphira…. It is time to wake up. He will never marry you and take you as a second wife, because we have decided that I will be his only until the day we die.”

“Jasmine, shut up.” I told her and tears rolled down my cheeks.

“A wife is a wife after all… the other woman holds no value..” Jasmine said and hung up the phone.