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"The  best of men are those

who are good to their wives." - Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

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Adam's POV

The morning that we are leaving for Europe, we all decide to get together in my family mansion for the breakfast where Arina's family also comes to meet us. 

We left the house when it was nearly time for our flight and drove towards the JFK airport. Going through the customs and security did not take long at all as we were given the VIP service. Perks of being Adam Zeewad, one of the best businessmen in the country.

We proceeded towards our terminal but before reaching we had a stop over at McDonald's because Alexander the great was hungry as usual. If it wasn't for the workouts I force him to do at gym he would be a whole different person with the amount of food he consumes.

Alex and the girls got themselves their desired fare whilst I was waiting for the foodies to be done with ordering the junks I sent a few quick emails to the staff at work giving instructions on how to carry out their assigned jobs while I am away.

Once they are done, we finally proceed towards our terminal and wait for our flight. As there is still quite a while left so I take out my laptop to continue working on some important projects.

Soon it is time to leave, Alex and Alina are on their way to the plane already but Arina is still seated on her phone. I'm sure she is on that reading app again. Wallahi she is always reading on there whenever she is free.

I call her loudly to which she instantly responds and inform her that we are leaving. She holds her bag and walks in front of me dragging the trolley bag behind her.

Soon the plane departs from the airport and ascends up in the clouds and we are on our way to my home, Toronto. I wish we could spend a day or two there but our cruise will be leaving the day after tomorrow. It's funny that we are having our "honeymoon" also just to make our family happy and two immature adults have decided to accompany us on our so called honeymoon to make it more "fun".

Looking around at my family members, I can see them all three busy with the gadgets in there hands and Alex along with that is instructing the air-hostess to get her something to eat .

My eyes land on my wife who is busy with her phone humming to something that is turned on in her ear plugs.  At times it is weird to even call her a wife because we might stay in the same room and under the same roof, eat together and live together but sometimes it feels like she is just a teacher appointed to get me back to the path I went astray from with the help of Allah. Because that is literally the only relationship we have. She do act like the typical wives about scolding me for missing my prayers or sleeping without reciting Quran.

Oh well, I think that is better than pretending like husband and wife when we know the contract ends in 2 months time. 

I turn my eyes away from her and focus on my laptop for the next hour working on some projects. 

We soon reach Toronto for our stay and after few hours we are in the air again on our way to Spain. This time we all sleep on our whole flight and wake up only to pray fajr.

When we reach Barcelona, we get off the plane and go through customs before walking out and the others are strolling out lazily and sleepy. An uber is waiting for us which will escort us to our hotel.

On the way I get an email from my manager in Japan telling me some issues concerning my company's branch in Japan. Reading the emails got me pretty mad so I started typing the emails furiously sending them instructions to get everything back on track. These pieces of sh*ts can't do anything right unless given full instructions.

I sent the last email and I felt someone staring deeply at me so I looked up and my eyes locks with a beautiful pair of hazel eyes staring right back at me, full of innocence and beauty.We keep staring at each other till the car stops with a jerk bringing us back to the real world.

We reach the Hotel and sleep for few hours before praying zuhr, having lunch and getting ready. Once ready we proceed downstairs where the Range Rover that I rented for the day is parked.

We spend our whole day visiting different famous sites and shopping streets, the girls shop a lot for themselves and the family back home.

At night we go on top of the Columbus Monument and look around the place. You could see all the city lights and the whole city from the top.

I stand to the side looking out onto the city when I notice Arina standing alone looking around as if looking for someone, I go and stand behind her and right that moment she turns back around and stumbles shocked upon seeing me. She is about to fall backwards when I wrap my arm around her waist securely preventing her from falling backwards.

I joke around to irritate her to which she replies nervously and leaves making me laugh.

After spending some time we call it a night and leave for our hotel. At the hotel we get freshened up for bed and sleep.

Arina's POV

I wake up till the sound of alarm blaring next to me on the night stand.

I recite the Dua for waking up and glance over at Adam only to find the bed empty and can hear the low noise of the shower running indicating Adam is already up.

We had woken up for fajr few hours ago and then slept back as there was still a long time for us to get ready.

Fixing my messed up hijab on my head I get off the bed and walk towards the huge stylish modern French windows that leads to the room's balcony.

As I open the windows, the cool and fresh air of Barcelona hits me making me smile looking at the sunrise rising over the horizon rising above the buildings and the city quite yet with some people walking around the streets and the birds chirping while flying around. A perfect view to wake up to.

Looking at all this beauty makes me want to say one word hundreds of times. Alhumdullilah.

I hear the door knob twisting indicating that Adam is done, so I glance at the city in front of me one last time before walking in.

I proceed towards the walk-in closet which have our bags and other belongings to grab my outfit for today but I bump into a hard wall before I could even enter.

I look up to find Adam staring down at me with a slight smirk making me quirk my eyebrows at him.

"Alhumdullilah you didn't have no drink in your hand today because I don't want another one of my Armani suit ruined now." Adam says

"Hey! I don't always spill drinks on people whom I bump into"

"Yeah I am the only lucky one" He replies sarcastically earning a smack on the forearm from me.

How can he be sarcastic about it! He is lucky to have the amazing me in his life. Even if it's only for 6 months. Best months of his life.

"Can you please clear the doorway now? I need to get my clothes."

"Sure Madame, I apologize for making her highness wait" He says while gesturing me to enter making me laugh at his attempt.

I enter the walk-in closet but look back at him again.

"Umm...Adam!"

"Yeah?"

"Why are you wearing a suit?" I ask getting a confused look in return.

"I mean we are here on our holiday not for some formal event so.." I try to explain my point 

"This is what I always wear and I'm sure you know that very well after living with me for over 4 months now." He replies

"But we are on a cruise holiday now...I just think you should wear jeans or something?"

Being the stubborn me finally convince him and Alhumdullilah he changes into something casual instead of his formal daily dressing.

Masha Allah he looks so handsome.

Once done with that, I finally enter the closet and choose my outfit for today before taking a quick shower, slipping into my clothes and blow drying my hair after getting a blow dryer from one of cabinets in the huge bathroom.

After confirming that Adam is not in the bedroom I walk out and stand in front of the vanity to put on slight make up and wrap my hijab around my head before wearing my shoes.

Satisfied with my look, I grab my rucksack and wheel my trolley bag into the living room of the suite where I see Adam and Alex once again fighting over the remote control and Alina sitting on the other couch completely oblivious to what the guys are doing while paying her full attention to her phone.

"Arina! Finally you are here! They were giving me a severe headache!" Alina exclaims 

" Aww You could've came to the bedroom"

"Oh yea! Why did I not think of that?!" She replies while hitting her head with her hand.

"You are here! Now let's go guys, we are getting late" Adam notices me in the room

We take our luggage and descend downstairs to the lobby using the Elevator and return our respective cards.

We soon settle in the Range Rover and start our journey to Port of Barcelona. We have a stop over at a small cozy Asian cafe for a quick breakfast. 

After devouring over the mouth watering aromatic Asian breakfast, we continued our journey to the sea port.

On the way to the port, Alina insisted she wants to sit on the window seat in the car so I had to switch with her sit between her and Adam. 

Soon we reached the Port of Barcelona, Cruise Port Terminal and took our respective luggage.

After getting done with the ticket procedure and the waiting, It was now time to climb the Cruise that was right in front of us.

It was a really beautiful Celebrity Eclipse Cruise, the exterior was so mesmerizing that it made me wonder how beautiful it will be from the inside. Alina who was standing next to me also looked extremely excited to get in already.

Soon we embarked the ship, ready to start this new journey.

Insha Allah! I hope we have the most amazing time and moments on this trip.

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HEYYY GUYS!!!

How are y'all?

Alhumdullilah I am good! 

I am so nervous as I have my first 4 GCSE exams this coming week so please include me in your prayers loves:)

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-Iiman