BRIDAL CONTEST

Chapter 26

"Which of your guy's wives is on duty in the kitchen today, I'm hungry".

"Allah ya shiryeka. It's Sauda i guess but you can ask him to confirm.

"I dare not, he's not finding the thing funny at all. He already have who he likes and she's not part of them i don't know when Mummy will realize this".

All the while Saudah was busy chopping the broccoli for the salad that she forgot the tamarind that was boiling in the kettle until she heard its sizzling sound.

"Oops", she said lowly and walked swiftly towards the electric burner to turn it off. She turned back to what she was doing earlier, allowing the tamarind to cool off.

All this did not escape the watchful eyes of Aunt Maleika, she was the least she thought for her son but her carefulness and simplicity is making her like her more than the others, she smiled a lopsided smile and proceeded to her room.

What they all didn't know is that there was someone else watching them...

Hours Later.

Saudah presented her food on the table and went ahead to inform everyone that the food is ready, they all assembled on the table ready to dive into the Asian cuisine, the first spoon in and many couldn't take a second spoon, for Asad who couldn't endure too much spice, he splut out the food on the table.

Saudah's heart fell to the pit of her stomach, she was nervous about whether they will like her food or not but she didn't expect this at all. She quickly grabbed a spoon and fetch the food from Aryan's plate without paying much attention to whose plate she is eating from. She struggled with her tongue to ball down the unpalatable bolus into her tummy, she rushed for a cup of tamarind juice immediately but it was also a bad choice as the sharp taste of salt hit her tongue.

The salty juice eased the spiciness but it has disrupted the taste of the juice. She wondered what happened to the dish she tasted when she was making.

"I swear it wasn't like this when I tasted it", Saudah voiced with tear filled eyes.

The occupants of the room stared between her, Arshad and Aunt Maleika respectively.

Aunt Maleika who was confused on how the taste turned out like this, she watched the girl when she was preparing the food and she could say it anywhere that the spice the girl used is not what they are tasting here, but what will be the need.

She has to play her card well and fish out whoever started this cat and mouse game. She cleared her throat and called out to the housemaid through the intercom. In no time, the place was cleared and a fast-food was replaced.

The dinning was back to normal like nothing happened, but the memories remained at the back of everyone's mind.

"I need the coverage of the kitchen for today", Aunt Maleika ordered the security unit of the house when she got to her room.

She rubbed her throbbing head "I wasn't expecting this".

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Samira never thought she could stoop this low but desperate times calls for desperate measures they say. What she thought will not last UpTo two weeks is morphing into months, she is still working and traveling when needs be but she is tired of the mouse chase already.

She did what she has never done and she can do it again and again if it is for Arshad Kabiru Tambari. He is the first of so many, the first youth she ever considered, Trust fund children don't tickle her fancy and their wives are too noisy, she has avoided gossip blogs for years and will like her rendezvous tucked far away from social media.