Knights For Mundika
5

Mundika's mind grew chaotic as he sat face to face with Mansoor at the main house. Seen from any angle it is impossible for Mansoor bin Maktoum to propose to him as a wife. He is not someone close to this man. How could?

"You must be confused as to why I proposed to you to be a wife while we just met with a finger count and our last meeting in the hospital was so unpleasant?" Mansoor laughed amusedly at how expressive the girl was. In a state of confusion and stress faced with this sudden proposal alone, he still looks adorable.

"Hows it? How can Sheikh...,"

"Mansoor, call me Mansoor,"

"I don't dare..," Mundika lowered her head feeling uneasy. "You are the son of our leader, it is not appropriate that I call your name alone..."

"But I'm your future husband" Cut Mansoor made Mundika inevitably look up at Mansoor.

"Yes, why am I Mansoor?" Mundika gives up and follows Mansoor's wishes. "Before proposing to me you've definitely found out about my family's background. If it is because of my disrespectful actions to you that you intend to marry me for wanting to take revenge on me, I apologize once again. Please don't involve my family and just fall on me, I'm ready to take it. Even if you propose it feels more appropriate that Maitha's sister or Haya's older sister is with you..."

"Do you believe in love at first sight?" Mansoor asked and only responded to the headband by Mundika. How can he interpret about love while he has never been in love. Seeing the condition of his family, he himself was not sure he could fall in love. Because he felt biased when faced with a reality that until now he did not find the answer. Not that he was unhappy, but there was a wedge in his heart that made him feel unworthy to be happy.

Mansoor who can capture the meaning behind the headband Mundika smiled a little.

"It may be true that I was angry at you at first because you stepped on my foot and kissed me the moment I made my speech and even you avoided me afterwards. But your sincere intention of apologizing to me shook my heart." Mansoor explained. "What yes, I like getting the jackpot can meet several times with you. I don't think it's a coincidence but it's the fate of the Almighty. Hows it? Can you accept my explanation Mundika?"

"Mansoor, can I be happy in the suffering of others who are not my own brother?" Mundika looked at Mansoor with a pushy look. "I am the son of a woman who indirectly seizes another woman's husband. But I feel that I have taken the rights of children from my father's first wife because in this family I know that my father's love is greater to my mother and the children of her than my father's first wife. I'm..."

"Your brother Majid told me everything and the truth. I made sure that I accepted you for who you are" Mansoor gave his widest smile. "Proven my father was so eager to agree to my request to propose to you.”

"I'm still confused Mansoor, everything is so sudden that it surprises me." said Mundika. "I haven't had the feeling of love for you yet..."

"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll fall in love with me soon" Mansoor said confidently. "I'll be handsome, cool, and cool!"

Mundika who felt Mansoor's speech was very cheesy chuckled. She did not expect behind a cold face and seemed rather haughty, her future husband had a slightly crisp side of humor. Husband-to-be? Does she now admit that the man in front of her is her future husband?

"So, now that we're engaged, yes" Mansoor pointed his little finger in front of Mundika as proof of the bond. He will only give an engagement ring after Mundika agrees to be his future wife. Actually because he did not know the size of his finger, he grimaced in his heart.

"Yes, we're fiancees" Mundika hooked her little finger to Mansoor's little finger.

From a distance Maktoum seemed to smile with satisfaction from inside the house when he saw his son had passed a step to marry the girl. "My mission succeeded Dalmouk, at least I managed to raise the degree of your daughter who should have been there if you hadn't made a mistake just yet."

"Thank you for your wisdom Maktoum" Dalmouk stood beside Maktoum. "I have my son, he is my precious pearl..."

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"I'll call you later" Mansoor gave the code to call Mundika if she had reached home and was taken in by Mundika with a smile while waving her hand.

"I'm sorry Mr. Dalmouk, tomorrow I'll wait at the office to discuss our son and daughter's wedding plans" Maktoum boarded his white jeep.

"Well Sheikh..," Angguk Dalmouk.

And both cars passed from the front yard of Dalmouk's house. Mundika and her mother permission to return to their residence.

"I can't accept Mundika stepping over me and Haya! What would people say there if we were stepped over?!" Suddenly Maitha protested to her father.

"Yes, I agree with Maitha, why would Baba allow the child to step over me and Maitha?!" Haya who had been holding back anger had finally made a sound as well. "Why does Baba always and always put her first?! Is in Baba's eyes the only child Baba has is him?! There's nothing else?!"

"Haya..," Latifa tried to calm her daughters. She was sad to see her daughters like this. Is this his karma for selfishly loving a Dalmouk Al Hassimi? The way that Maitha and Haya did is almost the same as what he used to manipulate Al Hassimi's family into choosing her as Dalmouk's wife while the man had anchored his heart to Artika, the woman who actually deserves to be the wife of Dalmouk Al Hassimi. "Please please.., have enough of your hatred for Mundika and Zayed, especially Mundika. That girl loves you all so much..., can't you repay her affection?"

"Where could Baba alone not be fair with us!" Maitha and Haya answered in unison.

"Enough Maitha, Haya," Majid as the first child and prospective family leader Al Hassimi who was just silent to see the behavior of his two younger sisters finally opened his voice. "Do you think I don't know what you did that thwarted the men's proposals many times before Sheikh Mansoor?!"

"What do you mean Majid?" Dalmouk was surprised by the words of his eldest son. Latifa was no less surprised.

"Origin Baba knows, actually not this time there are only men who want to propose to Mundika, but with good sense they both make the men retreat regularly and only Sheikh Mansoor is not affected so strengthen themselves to keep going forward proposing Mundika," explained Majid. "You should reflect on yourself, are you better than Mundika?!"

"O Allah, it is only to You that I ask forgiveness for my sins.", Chief Dalmouk suddenly dizzy to hear the constant explanation of Majid.

"My husband, you better rest, let me take you.." Latifa who could not bear to see her husband's condition immediately accompanied her husband to rest. Behind his calm face he actually held a tightness in his chest.

After his parents returned to the room, Majid immediately turned to his two younger sisters.

"Create your attitude so that I don't bother choosing a man who deserves to be your husband."

Majid leaves Maitha and Haya alone to contemplate.

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