Chapter 42

The girls kissed Rima and Manar adjusted the bed for her, while Iman went to get treatment, then Kanar helped her change the tapes that tied her over the burns, and after a few minutes, they were all asleep.

On the morning of a new day, after a week had passed since my return to my fellow girls, I was re-enrolled in school after Hajj Mahmoud succeeded in entrusting our sponsorship for me and my brothers to him. The director of the educational institute welcomed me and took me to her office, and after closing the door she said:

“My love, where were you last time? Everyone was looking for you. We even posted your picture on social media among the missing people.”

I told her, “I woke up after the fire in an orphanage and the owner of the home wanted to sell me to a nightclub and recorded in the home’s books that I had escaped. If God had not sent me someone to help me escape from it, I don’t know where I would be now.”

The director of the educational institute s