*
Over the next few days, Noor tried as much as possible to stay away from Fareed. After the little incident in the stable, she couldn't fathom looking him in the eye again. That brief moment of restrained affection he'd shown her was the most unconventional emotion she'd ever seen from him. Fareed always looked like he was cut from the hardest slab of stone in the world, and she'd always assumed his heart was colder than the icebergs she'd read about in a place called Antarctica, which was said to be the coldest place on earth.
Noor had always believed that Fareed's heart would be even colder than that. But yet, the little act of grazing her cheek reminded her of nothing more than warmth. It had ignited something in her which she hadn't known was there in the first place. And even wit
