The Reunion

Since leaving Germany, Mia found herself back on British soil starting over again. She had spent the past six months hiding away from the rest of the world, trying to heal the wounds left behind from Baghdad and at the same time trying hard to put everything she had left in to her relationship with Christophe, but it soon became apparent they were not meant to be anything more than friends, in the end everything finally took its toll on her. For him the reality of the life she had lived before she met him, was too much for him to bear and living a simple life he does, he just couldn’t handle her pace of life nor her mind, she didn’t blame him, after all Mia spent almost every day thinking about Clay, and the damage he and everyone else had done to her, if that wasn’t bad enough she started to compare them both, so trying to be fair to Christophe, she slowly sabotaged the relationship they built. Even now she still thought about Clay but had decided enough was enough. There were times she still received information from friends that channelled through from Baghdad about Clay that he had moved on and now had a new girlfriend. She was also told by people that he still went around Baghdad saying awful things about her to people in the sand pit. It was incredible really, after all this time, all Mia really wanted was an apology from him for the way he had treated her after losing the baby, she didn’t receive any such thing, instead she had to continue hearing his venomous mouth insult and disgrace her. This was allowing her heart to heal over him much more quickly.

was also around this time she had been staying in contact with Adam a good friend of Clay’s. Mia always knew they both had a soft spot for each other, sometimes she wished he had given her more signals back then in Baghdad, but he always gave her the impression he was just not that interested in her, only now it was becoming more and more apparent that he did and that they both still liked one another. They started opening up a lot more with each other, without Clay been in the way or anyone else for that matter. Adam was just getting over a broken heart himself, so this gave them both similar grounds for mutual affection. Neither of them where looking for a new relationship, just more of a fling really to heal open wounds. Adam was ready to go back home on leave having spent over six months in Iraq, he was desperate to meet up with Mia who was also returning back to Iraq, the plan was to meet up and spend some time with each other in Dubai, while hanging around in transit for a few days, before he headed back to the Philippines to deal with a lot of problems he had left behind, whether or not this short rendezvous they had planned was going to fix or achieve anything remained to be seen. Mia was also unaware of the new nightmare on the horizon that awaited her, and the decision she would have to make once she got there, she had no idea what she was leaving behind back home or what she was prepared to give up forever.