Fatima's Baby
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JERUSALEM
Monday Morning, December 26, 2022
Fatima quickly covered her head with the soft white towel as
servants of The One dried her naked rejuvenated body and helped her dress. The
servants were female, thank Allah. She
looked around her and saw beautiful naked women everywhere, white towels
rubbing wet skin, robes flying around them like white doves fluttering in the
morning mist. Some of the women were
dried by men!
The horrifying thought shook her, but she knew it should
not. The spirit of The One filled the
vast arena tonight. She felt it, and tonight,
this was his night. There could be no
sin in doing the will of God. She knew
he was Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta’ala, and
tonight, tonight, The One was her husband and Adam was his prophet. Salla Llahu ‘alayni wa sallam. It must be true. It was the only explanation that made sense
to her.
She smiled and looked down at her
perfect breasts. She pressed her fingers against the firmness of youth, after
all these years. She pushed her hands downward
to her belly, the tight scar that had wrapped around her waist like a steel
band cutting off her breath and her bowels, the burns from the boiling water
Azzam had thrown on her as she lay in the floor bleeding after her last
miscarriage so many years ago, were gone.
She caressed smooth soft skin; where, before, hard ridges of numbness
had replaced the wet agony of the burns. She allowed her hands to drift between her
legs and gingerly, she touched it. It
was there!
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About the Book
In the year 2022, 60-year-old Fatima is a barren, aging Muslima. Her cruel husband, Azzam is senior imam at the East London Mosque, the largest in England. Fatima carries the disfiguring scars from his abuse.
Despite having four wives, Azzam is still desperate for a male heir. One wife has been stoned for her sins; the others are to him, but cattle. Fatima is worthless and expendable in his eyes, so she is chosen to go to the Celebration in Jerusalem. If she dies, there is no loss. There, he tells her, she will conceive a son by receiving The Gift, promised by the mysterious and powerful creature known as The One.
Fatima is shocked when she finds herself young and, yes, pregnant. With this realization comes a new kind of horror. She knows that the punishment for adultery is stoning, and Azzam always says that there must be punishment.
No longer fearing for her own well-being, Fatima now fears for the fate of her child. She has Azzam to contend with, but also his brother, Hassan—a man who used to rape her cruelly until Azzam punished her with scalding water. Although, blessed by the One, Fatima feels helpless to protect her baby. After all, she is just a woman.
About the Author
Nicolai Andreyevich, orphaned as an infant in Kaliningrad, was adopted by one of the Russian Mafia’s most feared crime bosses at the age of two. His penetrating brown eyes irresistible to the man he resembled and who claimed to be his father. Fourteen years later, young Nicolai was forced to flee his opulent world after a violent coup left his family bleeding on the marble floor of their villa in Sochi. He was raised by his father’s mistress, who took diamonds and cash from the house safe after the attack and used forged passports to elude those who sought to eliminate the heir to his father’s throne. Nicolai studied in Israel, under an assumed name, and when a Palestinian rocket attack killed this woman, whom he had loved, and wounded him on the streets of Ashkelon, he took what was left of the family wealth, boarded a ship, and sailed to Aruba. His love for the island has grown through the years and is clearly demonstrated in his work.