Aaina x Zaydaan. Zaydaan always thought that men who waited for women were fools, men who waited for anything in general were absolute fools. You didn't need to wait for people, for things, for success. You needed to snatch it, get it but you didn't need to sit around meaninglessly and wait for it. Yet, here he was. He had been sitting here for hours, waiting and waiting. He stared at the blank white wall in front of him, his daughter asleep in his arms. He felt the tension, the anxiety, his mind full of a certain kind of emptiness and his heart in his throat. The doctors had been in there for hours now. How long was this f*****g surgery? Why was it taking so long? Why did he have to wait this way? He heard the familiar tap of heels as the door opened once again, showing Minal with a

