Rukayya felt her blood rising to her throat, what she had been dreading to happen. She knew a day like this would come, but never in her lifetime did she ever think it would be this soon. Swiftly, she drapped back her shirt to her protruded belly and kept staring at Shafa with bulged eyes that screamed tension.
"I didn't committed a******y, Shafa, you of all people knew that I'm not even stepping my leg out of the house. Wallah it's a legitimate child, don't tarnish my child's image before it's even born," Rukayya begged, with hands brought to a pleading gesture_tears were flowing unchecked on her cheeks, and her heart hurts like it never did before. Shafa calljng her child an illegitimate child was a hard blow to her.
"If not an illegitimate child, tell me who's child it is, Rukayya!" S
