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Chapter eleven 👑

Two weeks after Nazneen and Abdullah spoke. He never seemed to come around anymore. In her mind, she'd do the same if she was seeing someone and her parents were still forcing her to marry someone else, not that they would even do that.

As promised, he made the arrangements for a simple wedding and the invitations were already sent out by Kaka and Hajiya Larai. Those that were attending, she didn't know though, her dearest grandmother made it very clear that it was none of her business.

A week and three days were left to the nikkah and Nazneen could feel her intestines churning at every thought of the date drawing closer.

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Khalil and Aaman were in Mas'ud's room while they waited for him to get ready. They had a meeting to attend to as one of the major shareholders of the Al-farsi enterprises and Mas'ud just returned back from Zaria. As they patiently waited, Khalil kept himself busy by scrolling through Instagram while Aaman fiddled with the paperwork and mails on Mas'ud's reading table.

A silver invitation card with a red ribbon caught his eye. He checked to see if the owner of the room was coming before finally flipping open the card.

"Dude!" Khalil called out in a rebuking tone "Mas'ud said not to touch anything"

Aaman shrugged "He's not even here" he said ignoring Khalil and went ahead and read it.

"Who would have thought the ice queen would be getting married next week" Aaman remarked as he tossed the card and picked the golden fountain pen.

"What do you mean?"

"I heard the daughter of Bahzad was unapproachable,yet she's getting married" he said in a low voice as he continued ruining the once neatly arranged stack of papers. "What a sham"

Nazneen? Wowww! That went faster than he expected.

"What part of don't touch anything don't you guys understand?!" Mas'ud rebuked once he stepped out of the the closet already ready.

"So you were invited to the wedding of the Bahzad heiress" Aaman said displaying the invitation card "You are one lucky dude"

"Her grandmother is a very prominent woman there that's why she invited my father and I'm going on his behalf"

"That means Mammiey would have already gotten hers" Khalil said pocketing his phone.

"You seem happy" Mas'ud pointed out "and that's creepy"

"I've met Nazneen before, twice actually"

"And yet she didn't freeze you with her iciness" Mas'ud joked.

"She's not cold or arrogant as people say, she's just shy"

"Yeah and goats have wings and horns" Aaman chided in sarcastically.

"You guys should meet her sometime, she's actually kinda nice"

Mas'ud's eyes lit up as he wrapped his hand around my shoulders "If not that you were already in love with Fauziya right now,I would have concluded that you have a massive crush on Nazneen Bahzad"

Aaman shrugged "Actually,I would actually prefer it if she was the one, ice queen or not!"

"That girl you're talking so casually about is already getting married to someone"