—————————Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
—————————————Hospital Bersalin Kuala Lumpur. Three days later, 10:00am.
I was back on my feet again. I thought I was going to forever stay curled up in misery. But Alhamdulillah, my family was around to support me. I managed to convince Khalifa to go back to Dubai and he did yesterday. Alhamdulillah. I replied all the well wishers and I called up Khalifa's family in Nigeria.
Everyone was glad I was doing fine.
They were mostly impressed. I was impressed about myself as well. I mean it usually took months for mothers to get over the loss of their child.
But I was thankful to Allah. He helped me overcome the situation I was in.
I watched the CCTV footage we got from the police. There was a man, the night before the day of the explosion. His car was traced to the b
-------------------Los Angeles, California.-----------------------------------Khalid's Condo, next morning, 10:00am.ZarahI stood patiently waiting for Khalid outside his condo after knocking on his door.The poor guy was still sober after losing his job and of course he was feeling horrible now after losing his daughter. The cute little baby I saw back in Malaysia was killed in a bomb blast. Some people were honestly heartless and cruel. A lot of people were lost in the bomb blast and according to sir Khalid, the person's cause for doing this was all for revenge.This was something Pa Alejo would do.I spent sometime with him when he lost his job, when we both lost our jobs. He thought I was going to be able to help him get a creative business idea but we still had nothing. We hung out from time to time, he also helped me look for where I could
-------------- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.----------------------------Same day, 1:00pm." she still doesn't want to talk?" my voice shook as I stopped pacing outside the questioning room and stood to hear what the detective in charge of Najmah's kidnapping case had to say. " She still won't budge, we're going to use on force on her now" he answered and my blood began to boil as I looked through the glass window and my eyes met that of miss Hae Soo's minion.She knew something about Najmah and she didn't want to say anything. My daughter was only eight months old, she needed her mother by her side. Storming into the questioning room and beating her up till she spoke was going to help my anger subside. " Tell me where my daughter is" I snapped as I flung my hand with full force across her face. " Tell me where she is" I yelled my rage out and pushed her from the chair she was sitting to the floor and kicked her right in the stomach. Sh
---------------------Los Angeles, California.-------------------------------Valentine residence, next morning, 10:00am." Wait Mother, you knew about it this whole time?"" Yes and I'm not at fault for not saying anything, I didn't know that the person who raised Zarah was ever going to work with the green viper and besides I promised her that I wasn't going to tell anyone about it" Mother answered as she collected Kimberly from Sophia's. We all sat round a table in Sophia and Ethan's patio, trying to enjoy the morning breeze and talking." She went through one hell of a life, to be honest, if I were in her shoes, I wouldn't want to involve myself in all these problems we're facing" Sophia commented as she munched a cookie. " Yeah, all I'll want is to be at peace" Ethan backed up his wife and I rolled my eyes at the both of them." That's a selfish desire" My a
-------------Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.---------------------------Edwards residence, Same day, 9:30pm."Don't you think it's weird that you easily located her?" Farouk asked as I quickly booked a flight to LA. I honestly thought I wasn't going to have to ever go back there." No, Faryah was smart enough to locate her number while they were talking, of course the Miss Hae whatever doesn't know that she tracked her and her network was good" Raihannah answered.Abbah had informed the police of our new findings and they were on their way here. " Faryah the detective is here" Ummah called as she and Abbah walked hand in hand into the living room. " Good evening sir" I greeted as I got up from where I sat and dropped my laptop." Evening ma'am, are you all fine?" He asked as Abbah and Ummah walked to my side. " we are" Abbah answered as I dried my tears with my scarf. " We are going to be sending all the information we have on
-----------------Kuala Lumpur international airport, Malaysia.------------------------- Same day, 11:50am." Have a safe trip okay? and be very careful. Make sure you call me up when you arrive LA" Khalifa said with sleepy eyes as I stared at him in our video chat. It was around 6:00am there in Dubai. " I will Khalifa, you should get some more sleep okay?. We'll chat later"" Okay then, good bye love" He called. " So what are you going to call him?, lover? Or oh Sugarplum" Raihannah added as she stuck her head into our video chat. " Move away girl" I rolled my eyes and pushed her away from us gently. " Bye honey" I ended the call almost instantly." You really went with honey instead of sugarplum?"" oh come on Raihannah" She was trying to tease us.Fun girl.We left Ammie in good shape. We helped her look for alcohol support groups before we left her place and we also made sure she knew we were going to be there fo
----------------Los Angeles, California.------------------------------- Valentine's residence,11:30am.Sleep is a necessity in this life. I spent 18 hours and 5 minutes on an airplane and I didn't get to sleep properly. The bed in the room I was given by Sophia made everything right. I slept like a baby.I was on my period so I didn't have to make Salah. After taking my bath, brushing my teeth and getting cosy in my pyjamas, I threw myself on the small but comfy bed with cotton duvets and the purple velvet bed sheets made me not want to ever get out of that bed. Everything felt right. It was an amazing bed.I woke up fully refreshed by 11:00am, I took my bath, brushed my teeth, got dressed and called my family up to let them know I was doing fine.I called Khalifa up as well but he didn't answer, he was probably busy at work." Faryah, are you awake?" Mama Zainab followed her words with gentle knocks on the doo
------------------Los Angeles, California.-----------------------------Valentine's Residence, 2:00pm. Two days later.Well they were coping, Olyster Textiles has been shut down until renovations were done and everything was back to normal, then business could continue again. They were doing so well you know. Brandon has been in an asylum for the past two days and I have heard nothing from the police or Miss Hae Soo about Najmah.Sophia and her family cheered me up, especially baby Kimberly. I was always around her, she was a baby so she had to remind me of Najmah. Khalid hasn't being around the house for two days and I couldn't help but feel bad. He was avoiding his family and staying all alone because of me. Deep down honestly, I really wanted to pour my heart out to him, to all of them but I just didn't want to hurt Khalifa's feelings.He honestly deserved someone who was going to love him wholeheartedly and
--------------Central city east, Los Angeles, California.------------------------ 100 S Santa Fe Ave, 3:40pm." Thank you sir" I said as I hurriedly got down from the taxi and paid him his fee. I looked around the busy area and stood right in front of the address Najmah was kept, Tasha's diner. Why were they keeping her in a diner?. There were tall buildings all around, probably residential apartments.I pushed open the door to the diner after reciting Ayatul-Qursi and walked in with shaky legs and heard a chime. I was frightened to my core but I had to control myself if I wanted to get Najmah out of all this mess. This place was empty. There were chairs, tables and everything that made it a diner but there was no one around." Hello" There was no one to respond to me. I moved to around to see if I could find any clues or anything but I got nothing. Were they trying to trick me or something?.Najmah's loud cry resounded in