Chapter 110

Five years ago they had finally married in a quiet ceremony attended only by close family and a handful of trusted friends. He wanted to keep the ceremony intimate. He didn’t want his family to be targeted by the enemies. He cherished his wife sincerely. According to him, the less people knew about his marriage, the better it was. The fewer the people who had seen his wife, the more protected his wife was.

A year later their daughter, Samira, arrived, a bright-eyed three-year-old now, who had wrapped her father around her tiny finger from the first moment she opened her eyes.

Sohrab loved his wife and daughter with a fierceness that surprised even him sometimes. Jasmine was his anchor, the one person who could steady him when everything else felt like it was spinning out of control. He was head over heels for her still, after all these years, and the thought of being apart from her for more than a few days left him restless and unsettled. That was why he had brought her