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“Yes, in his office.”
“Okay, let me take the water to him.”
“Ah…” Ruth looked unsure.
“It’s okay; I just need to speak to him.” Janet stretched her arms out.
“Okay.” Ruth handed the tray to Janet.
“Thanks.” Janet took the tray and headed down the corridor. She walked past the living room and took a left turn just before she reached the doors leading to the patio. The sheikh’s office was just at the end of that short corridor. Janet knocked on the door.
“Come in,” the sheikh answered. Janet turned the door handle and then walked into the office. The sheikh was at the edge of the desk with a tablet in his hand. He was staring at it with his eyebrows knitted together.
“You’re home early,” said Janet.
“You brought the water,” he said plainly.
“Yes, because…”
“You can just put it down on the desk and go,” he cut her off. Janet began to walk towards him.
“I need to talk to you,” she said as she approached him.
“Now isn’t a good time.”
Janet put the tray down. “It’s important,” she said gently.
“Janet, not now!” he snapped. He looked up from his tablet. He seldom called her by her name.
“Sanaa spoke to me,” she called out. She didn’t know what was going on with the sheikh, it was clear that he wasn’t in a good mood, but she didn’t care. What she had to tell him concerned his daughter; it was more important than anything he had going on.
“What are you talking about?” The sheikh looked confused.
“Basil, Sanaa spoke to me. Not by writing stuff down, she actually spoke,” Janet explained. “I heard her small soft voice.”
Chapter 10
Basil put his tablet down so that he could focus on what Janet was saying. He hoped that she was not lying to him.
“You’re telling me that my daughter, who hasn’t spoken a word since her mother died, decided to speak now, and to you?” said Basil. He ignored the fact that she had just addressed him by his name and not as sheikh.
“Yes, I was so shocked.”
“Why did she start speaking to you?”
“When I went to pick her up after school, I noticed her watching other children hugging their mothers. She looked quite sad, and since we got home, she was just sad and wasn’t even eating.”
Basil closed his eyes and shook his head. It broke his heart to know that his daughter was sad. He was prepared to give her everything in the world to make her happy. He wished he could give her back her mother, but that was the one thing he couldn’t give her.
“She barely finished her lunch and just ran upstairs. I followed her and asked what was wrong. She told me that she missed her mama and started crying,” said Janet.
“She cried?” Basil asked.
“Yes.” Janet nodded. “A lot, for a while.”
“My baby girl.” Basil felt so sad that it wasn’t him that his daughter had decided to speak to. It had been almost five months since she had stopped talking. He had always thought that if she started speaking, it would be to him.
“She’s asleep now. She wore herself out crying.”
