His Heart? Knows
{?That he still wants her?}
Writer: Temiloluwa ?
Sixty-Four
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Before Zoya and Samir could even say anything, Aamir already escaped into the bed. He was planning to sneak in between them but that wasn’t possible because Samir was practically plastered to his mother.
“Papa…,” Samir was planning to protest as usual but Zoya stopped. “Ssshh honey… It’s alright. It’s late already. Just go to sleep.” She kissed him gently on his forehead and Samir smiled happily.
Aamir could only watch bitterly as Samir got smooched all over. The troublesome boy finally fell asleep cause the silent room resounded with his light snores.
“Why are you staring at me like that?,” Zoya whispered after moments of frustration. She opened her eyes and stared at Aamir who was staring back without even blinking.
Aamir smiled sheepishly and answered,”I’m just trying to sketch your physical features in mind… Zoya, why don’t you take off your scarf?”
“Why?,” She asked curtly.
Aamir almost scratched his head nervously. How is he supposed to tell her that he’s just missed caressing the soft, black strands of her long hair. She stared at him curiously waiting for a reply.
He just cleared his throat and shook his head sideways to indicate a negative answer. “Could you just turn to the other side then? I can’t sleep peacefully with you staring at me so intently.”
“Zoya, can we talk?,” Aamir’s gaze suddenly turned serious.
“No,” She replied curtly once again.
“Please,” He pleaded quietly. He knows no amount of words would be enough but he just need to know what really happened that day.
“Just five minutes… Please,” He pleaded again. There was silence for a while until she asked,”Do you want to talk here? I don’t want to disturb Samir.”
He nodded and stood up, looking grateful. She sighed and stroked Samir’s hair before following Aamir out of the room. They walked to the terrace and stood on the pavement, watching the moon & stars.
“Did you bring me out here to waste my time?,” Zoya asked coldly and Aamir turned to look at her. He shuddered when he saw that unfamiliar distant look in her eyes.
He reached out but she stopped him,”Don’t touch me… I haven’t given you a permission to do so. You don’t even have the right to do so especially after the stupid stunt you pulled off earlier today.”
“You’ve changed,” He told her. The Zoya he used to know couldn’t even look him in the eye to talk to him properly… She had always acted like a white lotus but this one standing in front of him, had this cold distant look his Zoya has never shown him.
“Things change… Time change… People also change,” Zoya mumbled.
“I’m sorry,” He said so quietly that she almost didn’t hear him. Those words suddenly made the stubborn tears surface.
“Sorry for what?,” She asked in a choked voice.
“For everything… Zoya, you really didn’t seduce Akhil that day, did you?,” The last sentence came out quietly. Zoya looked up at him with a look of unbelief on her face. He could now see the tears in shining in her eyes.
“You didn’t believe me then so I see no reason to talk now.”
Aamir was speechless. His facial expression changed angrily and he asked her,”Those injuries on your body… Was it because of mother? Was Zeenat involved too? Did Amira also help them?”
He totally bombarded her with questions. Zoya laughed bitterly. “Why asking now? You never bothered before… Even though you noticed, you turned a blind eye to it… Doesn’t that shows how much of a good husband you were to me?,” She replied sarcastically.
Aamir walked closer to her. “I want to make things right… I’m sorry I was such a jerk all those years. I’m sorry I didn’t act when I noticed the scars on your body. I’m sorry…”
“Stop saying sorry!!! It won’t solve anything. It won’t change the past neither will it affect the present!,” She totally lost it.
“She would ask all the servants to go on a leave and then ask me to do all the house cleaning… She would instruct Amira to watch me and if I slacked just a little bit, she’d beat me up and even ask Amira to join… I didn’t even mind… I didn’t mind cause Zeenat and Samir was there,” Zoya paused and looked at him.
He looked shell shock. “They kept me going… Who knew that Zeenat was only being hypocrite? I was just naive back then. Your little naive wife. As if it wasn’t even enough, Akhil would come at me anywhere no one else is present. He’d try at first to say sweet stuff and get me to lay with me,” Zoya stopped talking again, reluctant to say anymore.
Aamir already clenched his hand tightly in anger. That bastard. No wonder he relocated immediately after Zoya left. He was already swearing on what he would do when he catch that bastard.
“If I refused, he’d beat me and try to force. I tried telling Zeenat and her, but no one ever listened. Who else could I tell? Was it you? The little show husband that never even bother to look at his wife twice. You never failed to show me how much you loathed me. You’d leave early before I wake up and then come back when I’m asleep… It was such a suprise that you even came home early that day… For days, I kept wondering why it had to be that day of all days,” She finished her words and wiped off the tears that had managed to escape.
Aamir just stared at her… Zoya turned around to leave but he couldn’t just let her leave. “Five minutes is over,” She reminded him. He almost grimaced. To hell with five minutes… Who cares about that now?
“Do you know why I was so angry that day? The reason why I was so mad about seeing you and Akhil together… The reason why I didn’t let you know about all I’d done for you is secret back then,” He muttered.
No response…
“It’s cause… I love you Zoya. I was such a fool back then to have not realized it sooner… Zoya, DOVE. Do you still love me? I found everything you meant to give me but never got the chance to,” He was looking a little bit tearful now.?
Tbc?