After Mr. Asim brought Mary from the boarding, school, and told her about the severity of her mother's illness, she wondered inside herself whether Mr. Asim is just a friend of her mother. she always felt that their emotions are not like that at all.
someday while Mr. Asim was talking to her mother, she found a man who showed signs of hatred and jealousy looking at them from afar. Mary approached him and asked him, "who are you? and why are you standing here?"
This man tried to evade her, but when he found the sun necklace on her chest, he said to her, "Are you Mary, you have grown so much?"
Mary, "do you know me?!"
The strange man, "yes, of course, I am David your father"
Mary, "what!! are you crazy, my dad passed away a long time ago, you are a liar, get out of here before I call the police!"
Mr. Asim heard this quarrel from afar, and when the man noticed that, he took out his coat, a card with the method of communication, and told her to call him if she really wanted to know the truth.
The mysterious man's words affected Mary greatly. Mary tried to search around to find any picture of her father, but her mother always argued that all the pictures were lost in a big fire a few years ago, so Mary felt that there was a secret that she did not know. Mary tried to search in her grandfather's hotel, hoping to find anything, but all the rooms have been renovated after Mr. Aziz bought them. An idea came to her to go down to the basement. She could find a picture or anything, that indicates her father. Indeed, she went down the basement and searched and searched, but to no avail.
but while she was leaving, she falls accidentally, she heard a vacuum on the ground, and she thought that there must be something under it. Mary raised the worn-out rug to find a small iron handle, that seemed to be a secret entrance. Mary grabbed the handle and opened it up. So, at the bottom of the stairs, Mary did not expect that there was a room under the basement, but she thought it was a place they were hiding. During the war, as her mother had told her before, it seemed that no one had entered it for a long time. Mary came down to the stairs and lit a candle to light the way for her. When she arrived, she found old candles, and she lit them all, till everything appeared to her.
It seems that this place was a place where Shams' father secret places, it's obvious that he had been sitting there many times. There is a fully equipped bedroom, and all the pictures of her mother and grandfather are hanging on the wall. It seems that her father was missing her very much. Mary approached the bed and opened the drawer next to it to find a set of diaries from 1 to 19. It seems that she inherited the reading, and writing from Her grandfather because she found in the room a full-fledged scribe of books, she was so excited to read all those books, but at first, she wanted to finish reading her grandfather's diary., so she took them all up to read them, but what was mysterious to her, was that there was no picture of her father, but she didn't care much, in the end, she would know how her mother lived her life
Because her mother didn't tell her anything
Mary sat in her room, and turned off all the lights except for her lamps next to her bed, and brought a cup of coffee, and sat down to read the diaries, and that was her distinctive way of reading books.
Her grandfather's book was like a semiotic movie that she could watch, and enjoyed in every detail. She lived with her mother's moments since her birth, her joy and sadness, her laughter, and her weakness. It is clear that her mother was all her grandfather's life. He did not look at himself or his life even for once but devoted his life to her
Mary also got acquainted with Mr. Asim through her grandfather's writing about him and knew almost everything about his life from his narration of events at the beginning of the volumes. He was talking about how much he admired his intelligence, diligence, and tact, and that he wished that he was his real son. But he was always suspicious of him, so how such a person like him may lose his memory especially that at the accident the crash did not touch his head, so how did he lose his memory, but he also wondered in himself what could be behind this little child!!
But this did not end his fears, so he continued his constant observation, which did not reach him to anything. He always did not make even a small mistake.
Mary read dairy after dairy and did not feel a single moment of boredom and reached the 19th volume, the words began to get tougher against Mr. Asim, and her grandfather continued to attack him that he looked at his little princess and that Asim did not know his position, her grandfather said,
"How can this rat look at my princess, there is someone who really loves her, and who does not covet her money? I know very well that Asim is just a fraud. His cold eyes indicate a hardness of heart. He reminds me of myself in my youth. David is a rich, educated young man, and most importantly, he loves her very much, and she is still a reckless girl who has been deceived by this immoral. I must teach him a lesson so that he knows who he is."
At the end of the dairy, her grandfather wrote about his prior knowledge of the escape story that his daughter relayed, the plot he carried out in order to separate them, and his bargain for Shams in order to evacuate her lover, and about his success. With that evil and to throw a weak young man into the arms of prison, Mary felt so badly, but that feeling did not last long when she knew that Mr. Asim had kidnapped her mother the day after her wedding, and at the end of the diary Mary found a picture of her mother in a wedding dress and the groom was that strange person. Mary was stunned when she saw that picture because the picture proves that, that person was her father, but she wanted to know the rest of what happened. There must be many diaries that she did not find. Mary went again to that secret room and searched and searched, but in vain, she did not find anything. In the end, she gave in to the fait accompli. She tried to talk to her mother. But every time her mother assures her that her father has died, Mary decided to talk to that man so she called the number that she was given, and asked to meet that mysterious man, and he immediately met her
Mysterious man, "I see that you believed me in the end"
Mary, "that's not true, it's just curiosity"
Mysterious man, "So do you think I'm lying to you? or do you believe me!"
Mary, "how can I believe you?"
the mysterious man is showing her many of his pictures with her mother at different stages, but what really excites her is that her mother was smiling in those pictures
Mary, "then you are really my father"
Although she was sure that he was her father, she doubted that she might be the son of Mr. Asim, after all, he was her mother's lover.
Mr. David, "yes, my daughter. I am your father. I have missed you so much"
Mary, "Are you deceive me, if you really missed me, why did you leave me? and my mother so long, I didn't see you even once"
Mr. David, "I didn't know you existed, till recently. Your mother hid it from me"
Mary thinks again that Mr. Asim must be her real father because there is no reason to hide her from her father
Mary, "I don't believe you, why didn't you look for her if you really loved her or did you hate her so much?!"
Mr. David, "look, she kept this silver necklace for now. I gave it to her on her birthday. Look at this picture and you'll know it. if you check these photos well, you would know very well how much I loved your mother, and she also loved me, but that bastard took advantage of her young age, naivety and kidnapped her from me
Mary, "I don't understand what you mean?!"
Mr. David, "I was your mother's first love, and left her and traveled to complete my work as she was still young. Your grandfather stipulated that she complete her studies until we get married, and in the meantime, that snake approached her, and took advantage of her young age, and deluded her that she loved him and that he loved her, because of his greed, and to take revenge on your grandfather for forcing him not to enter the medical school that he "always loved
Mary remembered her grandfather's diary about it and that he had already forced him not to apply to medical school"
Mr. David, "I really regret leaving her at that time"
Mary, "but you did not answer me, she married you, not Mr. Asim, why did you leave her?"
Mr. David, "I did not know what your grandfather had done to her, and I married her, thinking that she loved me, but I was surprised that she ran away on the second day of our wedding with that bastard, who stole all your grandfather money and became so rich from his money. She ran away with him out of the country"
Mary, "but why are you so sure that I'm your daughter? Maybe I'm Asim's daughter"
David interrupts her, "No, that's not true. You're my daughter. I'm sure of this"
Mary, "how can you be so sure"
David, "I know your mother well, she will never give birth outside of marriage, and that she has never given herself to him"
Mary thinks to herself that her mother is indeed a conservative type who refuses any of these relationships, but she wanted to make sure of herself
Mary, "what do you think about doing a D.N.A to make sure?"
Mr. David, "of course I don't mind"
Mary, "So what did you do after my mom left you? did you travel again?"
Mr. David, "No, I couldn't. After your grandfather heard the news, he fell unconscious and was bedridden, so I could never leave him alone. I thought of him as my father, so I took care of him until his death."
Mary was touched by her father's nobility, and at this moment her heart was very tender to him.
Mr. David, "he became sad and lonely, he couldn't run the hotel, and he gave me everything, and all he did was sit in the middle of his daughter's pictures and memories"
Mary knew that her father would not lie, because she had already found that room full of memories, but she wondered inside her, how the hotel became owned by Mr. Asim?"
Mary, "if you hate Mr. Asim so much, how can you sell the hotel to him?"
Mr. David, "No, I didn't do that. He deceived me and bought it through a middleman. I'm very rich and I didn't need the price for this hotel. In the end, this hotel collected my mother and my sorrows. I just hate it, so I didn't mind selling it at all. So, when they offered to buy it I sold it, I agreed without hesitation. I wanted to close this page"
Mary, "but how did you know about me?"
Mr. David, "your mother came to me several years ago and told me that I had a daughter, and that that bastard had left her outside alone, after stealing all her father's money, and that she was afraid to go back to her father thinking he wouldn't accept her, but when I asked to see you she evaporated in the air, I didn't find either of you, but coincidence brought us together, When I was overwhelmed with nostalgia and I wanted to remember your mother, I wanted to go to the hotel, she is after all my first love
Mary, "do you still remember her?"
Mr. David, "yes, and it was my luck to see her, and fill my eyes with her, but I saw that scoundrel embracing her. He who did everything to separate us. If you were with me, your life would not have been so miserable. And you would not have been raised without a father."
Mary wanted to make sure at first that Mr. David was her real father, so she analyzed the paternity proof, and after a few days, she made sure of that. When she tried to call her father, because she wanted to meet him, and apologize to him, his wife replied and told her that her father was in prison because someone called Mr. Asim had imprisoned him unjustly.
Mary was very angry, and all she felt was how naive her mother was, how she had lived through years of lying, how she had been deceived over and over again, and she remembered those days when her mother cleaned restaurants and washed dishes, how that princess had become a servant, and how that bastard was blessed with their money, and how With her father in prison, and the reason she was deprived of him all these years and left her like this, and what I hate the most is that her mother has forgiven him because she still loves him, so Mary decided to confront her mother with all these facts until she told her her objection to that relationship.
But unfortunately, she could not. When she arrived at the hotel, she saw her mother from afar sitting and not moving, and she found Mr. Asim descending the water. She did not rectify the matter from the beginning, but she quickly approached her mother, but she found her dead body. Mary tried to shake her mother but to no avail. She looked at Mr. Asim, and found him entering the water without realizing it, Mary thought of letting him commit suicide, after all. If her mother had been rich from the beginning, her condition would not have deteriorated so badly, and that his feeling is temporary, so she must take the opportunity to die too, he deserves it
But after that, she did not want his death so easily, but rather she wanted to watch him suffer slowly, so she rushed to him to save him, and indeed she saved him from drowning.
Mary always felt that Mr. Asim could not bear to look at her and that the reason for that was his hatred for her father, but she wanted to use him as he exploited her mother, she tried to get close to him. But Mr. Asim told her that she was traveling to complete her studies abroad and that he would take care of all the costs, so Mary wanted to use him and joined the most expensive universities, and intended to prepare herself well to take revenge on him, and return what was originally hers. Mary arrived at the airport, and before she got on the plane, she said to herself, "I will leave now, but I will return soon to take revenge"