Aishatuh M

On the brink of a life that seemed too dull to excite her, amidst the chaos of the insurgency that threatened not just her happiness, but the little she had as a world; Maryam Bukar Ibrahim seemed to battle more wars than her 16 years old and autistic brain could handle. 

It became too much to bear, too much grief for her heart to take and a commitment her innocent yet frail body could endure. As if that wasn’t enough, destiny found a way of getting her married to a soldier, at the brink of her father’s death and the last words he pronounced were of her becoming Mrs. Na’im Bolori. 

For Captain Na’im Bolori, marriage was the last thing he thought for his life. He was the prince of the Kingdom of Maiduguri and suffering from an unmentioned illness broke more of his engagements than he cared to count. Being a soldier was his lifetime dream, yet rescuing a dying father only to get him married to his weird and two colored eyes daughter was something he had never imagined. 

He took her home not because he wanted, not because he was ever going to accept the so called marriage, between, she was only 16 years old! But destiny decided to play with his heart and test how capable he was of controlling himself and protecting the ones he loved. As said, When A Soldier Loves...He Kills To Protect.

When A Soldier Loves

<p>He had no house in Maiduguri, and he knew his plans of taking her to the orphanage were canceled the moment he saw her getting beaten merciless. He had to take care of her like he had promised her father he would, and he would have to keep to his words. Na im sighed as he tried to set his thoughts right, first, she needed to eat. From the way she had obviously lost weight even though she wasn't fat or even chubby before was enough to tell him that she hadn t been eating well in the past two weeks. </p>

<p>And clothes, he realized. This was the clothes she had the day he had brought her to the camp, was it that they didn t give her the clothes the government prepared for them or she simply didn t agree to put them on? And he would need to find somewhere temporary to keep her before he thought of the best thing to do. As much as he didn t want Hafiz s opinion on this, Na im knew he was the best person to consult. </p>

Chapter 8 8: The Seethe Of Anger