EIGHTEEN
After taking Thuraya home, you returned to the base without allowing what had happened at the end of the outing to ruin the beauty of this experience or diminish the feeling of just having eaten from the tree of happiness. Nothing could rob you of the delicious taste that lingered on your tongue.
You returned t the base in the same carriage so you would not be late in entering the mess hall when the roll was called. From your seat, you spotted her husband Fathy. You felt slightly irritated. What misery and ill-fortune had thrown this man between you and the only woman in the world whom you loved and who loved you? Was he wronged, or had he wronged you? Was he the victim or the executioner? He was the husband you envied for having taken Thuraya, but hadn’t he also been deceived i
