Chapter 66

Days passed and Adham joined work in one of the houses adjacent to the palace. Shadi also kept trying to be alone with Rima outside the palace despite his brother’s warning to him, but Rima always refused any meetings outside alone without the presence of Sanaa or one of her brothers, he rejected the idea of the presence of any of her brothers. Under the pretext that he cannot make anything official between them until he finishes university, starts working, and has his income, so he is not under his father’s control.

On her last Friday in that palace, Shadi asked her to bring him lunch to his room, using the excuse that he had exams at the university and did not want to waste time without studying. Everyone was not at home, so Sondos traveled with her maternal grandmother to Alexandria to attend the wedding of one of their relatives. The Grand Master had an emergency meeting in the public administration, and his wife had gone to the club because she was working on a celebratio