He hated the sound of the phone ringing, and Fadila wasn’t answering it. She was busy getting ready to go to work. So Buran answered instead. Fadila could hear her mother giving some caller an extraordinary welcome, and she knew that slimy Mutaa must be on the line. The conversation went on longer than usual. The mother called Fadila. Then, covering the receiver with her hand she crooned happily, “The signing of the marriage contract is scheduled for Friday, and the wedding will be a week after that at the Orient Palace Hotel. So put on your dancing shoes! It’s going to be an amazing wedding, and they’re covering the whole thing, even though it’s usually the bride’s family that pays. Anyway, you talk to him. His mother wants to see you at her house. She’s been sick, and Mutaa says she has
