AAHIL I hear a scream and without thinking, I kick the door open. Stopping dead in my tracks, all I can do is stare helplessly at Amal. My mouth has dropped open and there might even be a little drool here somewhere. Because wow. I always thought how cheesy those moments were where everything seems to stop and there is nobody but the two of you in the room. I didn’t know that was real. I’m pretty sure that if I try to speak, nothing will come out. It feels like I’ve swallowed pebbles and the thud thud thudof my heart tells me I’m alive but I think, what must Paradise be like if this is the beauty in this world. I can swear I’ve never seen a woman as beautiful as her. And she isa woman despite Abdallah’s jokes about how young she looked when we first saw her in her house. There’s noth

