[NOUR]
Nour listened.
He was always good at that, and he had learned over the years to be a good listener.
And so, when his father spoke, he listened to his breath.
To the way his body moved.
To the slightest of gestures, he listened and understood what he saw for the first time in a long time.
His heart, which had already been breaking, started to break. Not because of what his father was dying of. That was always bound to break him, but because of how his father was saying it.
How the man was determined to remind his son that he had only stayed this long for him because Soraya had asked him. Because the prince was just the love child, he couldn't abandon him when the road got rough.
It was there, down to the last venture, and when his father had made his last sentence, Nour knew that he was right.
"You're lying," the prince said as he stared at his father.
