Return: Finally My Angel Smiled, Finally the Princess Smiled

About this book

On the journey back, what matters is not how many steps you take forward, but how much of yourself you leave behind each time. That was the harsh truth that collided with Ayham after he realized he had not merely been absent but a deliberate eraser of the most important light in his life — a light he extinguished with the coldness of distraction and the folly of preoccupation with everything perishable. Suddenly he finds himself standing at the threshold of a cold void, where Mayar is gone — Mayar who was once his angel and his anchor — and where his last harsh word turned into a curse haunting him waking and sleeping. "I am the worst brother/friend humanity has ever known," his conscience whispers at every silent moment, while he watches her face walk away, indifferent to his fate. She no longer cares whether he lives or burns, and she taught him this unforgettable lesson: that the worst kind of loss is to lose yourself in the eyes of one who loved you sincerely, and to search for their hand after you cut it off with your own hand. But returning to hearts is no mere apology; it is a savage war against the self. As Ayham struggles to rebuild the bridges he demolished with neglect and tries to repair what he broke in his own heart, he discovers that some absences are not waiting for an apology but for a resurrection. A young-adult novel about remorse, the long road back to those we wronged, and the war a person wages to deserve a second smile from his angel.