The arrival of her father was something that Rakia welcomed quite enthusiastically. She asked Adeline for permission to pick up the man herself at the airport but, Rakia was a little disappointed when she found out that her father had promised to be picked up by someone else. What she didn’t know was that the other person was Dashtan.

“You didn’t go pick up your dad?” asked Adeline when she saw Rakia in the kitchen helping the maid cook lunch.

“No, dad said he was picked up by someone else who had promised him before coming here,” Rakia replied as she stirred her homemade mushroom chicken soup, she then took...