Growing up, Laila’s mother favored her two older brothers. ‘People,” she decides, “shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones.” This is why Laila felt like her mother did not love her enough when she was younger. Now that Laila is older and a mother herself, she thought back to what her mother said. Laila loves and misses Tariq, and wishes everyday that she could see him again. She has a child with him, Aziza, and because she yearns for Tariq so much, she has unconditional love for Aziza, her first born. After Laila’s hard relationship with Rasheed and sharing him with another woman, she got pregnant with Rasheed’s child. Laila does not have outstanding feelings for Rasheed, therefore
