He made her smile and she was excited to let him drift along behind her, trying to pretend he wasn’t there.
She found a shop, selling local crafts, and she noticed an embroidered throw in the window like the one she’d seen around Mahmud’s legs.
it had a border of stylized tulips surrounding a richly colored pattern of shapes and crooked trees. Her mother would definitely love it. And now that Nabil had so generously taken up all her responsibilities, she knew her money would last and she could afford to buy a few souvenirs for her family.
After some few minutes, she emerged from the shop with the throw in a gift bag, surprised at the price the man in the shop had charged, but he’d insisted the ridiculously tiny amount was correct. She would check with Nabil later but for some reason s
