“What was so important we could not talk over the phone?”
He had gotten the message on his phone to meet her at home, and the tone in the message told him that it was not a good thing. It was short, to the point, and if he knew her well enough, there was anger in it.
“You.. you are going to pretend you can’t guess?”
“Eh...”
“You asked a body guard to beat up your own son?”
“I had too do something..”
“Oh no.. no you did not.”
She turned away from him. She hadn’t wanted to believe it at first, but the evidence was overwhelming. Specially the completely blood drained body she had seen in autopsy. The rest her daughter had filled her in on.
“I only wanted him to do what is right..”
“He did, he followed his heart.”
“But our plans..”
“No.. your plans, like our parents planned out our lives for us.”
“And he was about to throw everything out of the window. Our reputation, our family’s honor, everything.”
“You really think that?”
“Yes!”
“Then I guess were through.”
“...What?”
“I have learned to love you Kunni, but this, this is not good enough.”
“He could learn to lo..”
“No.. he loves someone else, I have never seen my son so happy, and you... you ruined it.”
“I was trying to..”
“No, you were only interested in your reputation. The world has changed Kunni..its not the same as when we were kids.”
“So, I should accept him loving a man?”
“Yes.”
“But...”
“No, you should accept that it makes him happy.. and if you can’t and you try your hand at hurting him again, you better lawyer up.”
“Are you...?”
“Threatening you, yes, I will leave you and take every penny from your accounts. I know all your dark secrets.”
“So that’s it then?”
“You choose.”
“Don’t you love me?”
“I do, but I love our kids more. I want them to choose their life and what to do with it.”
“I...”
“If you want to be with me, and be in your kids life, you tell your son you will never do something like this again, and you let him live how he wants.”
He marched out the door, giving him some time to think. She was pretty sure he would make the right choice eventually, but it would take him some time to get there.
“What did she say..”
“She told him she would leave him if he didn’t accept that we had our own lives to live.”
“Well, that is mom for you.”
Khaled couldn’t believe what he had caused just buy falling in love with a boy in the city. His parents marriage was now on the line.
“I think he’ll come around. As much of an ass as he can be, he does love mom, and in his own way us.”
“I guess we wait and see.”
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