The Accidental Wedding novel Chapter 19

Sheema was just listening to our conversation staring at the screen.

"Babes, not everyone snogs their fiance before their wedding. And it's not accepted in our religion", I said with a frown on my face.

" Meeting the fiance alone at night is also not acceptable in our religion", Rania retorted.

I didn't say anything just rolled my eyes, actually, she was right. This is where our problem lies, we only follow those teachings, which are convenient for us.

"Okay leave it, now tell me what should I do if he tries something like that again?" I asked.

"I don't know", Sheema was of no use, she was too good for her own good.

"Did you feel anything when he touched you? Like butterflies in your stomach or current running through your body or tingles erupting on your skin?" Rania asked.

I didn't feel any of these things which Rania mentioned. Instead I felt repulsed and don't know, why did I feel like that?

"No, I didn't feel any of these things", I replied honestly.

"Then you are not attracted to him", Rania replied.

"Wtf, I really like him and I am marrying him, how am I not supposed to be attracted to him?" I asked in alarm.

" I mean he doesn't excite you sexually, you like him but maybe in a platonic way", She replied.

Now I was really confused. I like a guy to the extent that I accept his proposal to marry him and I am not attracted to him sexually? What the hell?

"Rania I don't understand what you are saying, will you elaborate", I said.

"Look, did it ever happen to you that when a guy touched you or you touched him you felt a wave of excitement through your body? Or some shivers from his touch?" Rania asked.

I went into a state of shock, all these things I had felt when Waleed had saved me from falling. So was I attracted to Waleed Kamal sexually?

Dammit, I hate that guy and I really despise him, how the fuck was I attracted to him. Rania doesn't know anything she is just bull shitting.

"So did you?" Sheema asked.

"Did I what?" I asked, my mind was still trying to figure out what was that I wanted? "Did you feel those things with any guy?" Sheema said, gritting her teeth.

"No" I lied.

"Then it's simple, you are asexual", Rania replied laughing.

"Very funny", I said rolling my eyes.

These girls were as lame as I was in this department, we just talked about how our weekend went and just the usual stuff and disconnected.

My confusion had only increased after the call, I was literally clueless about how I was feeling. But one

thing was for sure I didn't like it when Imaad tried to kiss me. And I think the reason is I am just following my

religious teachings.

Waleed

I had come to the Italian restaurant for a meeting, don't panic guys I am workaholic and it doesn't matter if it's weekend. My firm is my first priority.

My client was going abroad for two months on Monday and wanted to finalize the last details, so here I was discussing while having dinner.

We had drafted a rough plan of the resort in the month and it had been approved by the partners. The administration building, restaurant, and spa was assigned to the architects from my firm while the rooms and villas, the common swimming pool was assigned to architects from Daniyal's firm.

We had a deadline of nine months to complete this project and I always tried to complete the projects before them.

We have been working our asses off this project, my architects have come up with really good plans for the buildings and I was looking forward to our next meeting with Daniyal and his employees where we were going to discuss the designs our architects have come up with.

One month into the project the meeting was arranged with the architects of both our firms and we had to select the plans we were going to show to our clients.

The presentation was going well, I have to admit the architects from both our firms had really done a good job.

After a few discussions and little changes, we had finalized the design for the administrative building, which was designed by the senior-most architect of my firm.

The same was the procedure with the restaurant, spa swimming pool, and the rooms.

Mia was assigned the task to design the villas, and I had to admit her plan was really good, she had made use of the allotted space really well.

She had designed two types of villas one was a single story and one was a duplex. The single-story was as per the requirements of the client's but the duplex villa was a little variant and I had the opinion that it was good on paper but, it won't be good enough after construction.

I raised my points and I found out it didn't go down well with her, she looked quite annoyed by my criticism. And I was surprised by her reaction, I had criticized other architects as well but everyone had taken it in good spirit.

Daniyal had shared my views and we had advised her to come up with a revised plan within two days. I know it was not possible but we had a meeting with our client and had to present the plan to them. After the meeting, everyone had left and I came back to my office, Daniyal had told me he was going to meet an engineer of my firm and he would join me later.

My Secretary came in after a few minutes, informing me that Ms. Shahab has requested an immediate audience with me. I took a deep breath and asked my secretary to send her in, I knew what was coming, she must have taken my criticism personally.

I never mixed personals with business, I was highly professional in every dealing and that was the reason I never had engaged with Mia in any personal discussion while working on this project.

Whatever happened between us was past and now we were working on a project together and needed to act in a truly professional way. But with Mia, I think it was not a possibility.