Chapter 20. Your Savior

“What exactly do you want to know, Mr. Adam?” she asked him.

“Mahir is okay,” he told her, and she could sense the joke in his tone. He was mocking her.

She smiled for the first time since she had settled down. “Well… you know my name, where I work, what else?” she asked him readily.

“Where do you live, where are you from, and your age? Are you single or not?” he asked openly, sipping a glass of sparkling water.

Her eyebrow shot up with shock. Did she hear the last question correctly?

“Why do you need to know my relationship status? Like, why would a guy like you ever be interested in that?”

“Wasn’t the only question I asked, Bushra. But since you insist, I’m asking for a friend, and I am just a regular person like others — no difference.”

She raised her brow again. He wasn’t just a regular man, she declared. He was different from so many men she’d come across. He was bossy without even thinking about it. His second nature was being domineer