Agreeing to Marry Her

"I did my whole investigation. He is completely perfect and by the way, I know his dad from the time of your dad. You can assure yourself about them."

On Dawood's voice, his hands which were punching on the punching bags stopped for a moment.

He was in his gym room. Because of constant punching, his whole body was soaked in sweat.

Dawood felt proud looking at his broad muscular body. No doubt, he kept a dashing personality.

"I will be satisfied only then when Hadia leaves this country safely."

He was telling him while taking off the gloves from his hands.

"And Hadia? Does she know? Will she agree with your this decision?"

Dawood expressed his concern.

"It's in her betterment that she do this nikkah (marriage agreement) and leave this country. I'm not interested in knowing her choice. As far as letting her know is concerned, then tomorrow you can inform her about my decision."

With an expressionless face, he turned towards him.

He took this decision a long time ago. He was just in search of the right time and the right person. And now his search is done.

"And Dawood this work should be done in complete silence and hidden. So that no one can come to know about it. I can't endure a single mistake in the matter of Hadia."

"Hadia...... Hadia...... nothing changed in these five years. You are still where I left you back then. You and your concern are still the same for her."

He was about to pick up the towel from the table when the door opened and someone entered inside.

Both looked back on listening to the familiar voice. She was standing in front of him folding her hands on her chest in black tight jeans and a light pink color top.

For a moment, Wadan was astonished on finding her here.

"My concern for Hadia will remain till my last breath. My main objective of life is her safety. My objective isn't going to change with the change of the year."

With a blank look, he said gazing at her in his deep solemn look. It's been five years she has been the way she used to be five years ago.

"I'm amazed to see that for you this supposed relationship is dearer than your blood relationships."

She smiled in scoffing at him. She came closer to him. Wadan nerves constricted on her way of talking and style.

"It's merely your thinking otherwise my blood relative is also that much dear to me? Right now you wouldn't be here standing in front of my eyes after what you did, "Laraib Ali Shah."

He said giving stress to each word.

"Laraib Asfandyar Khan not Laraib Ali Shah."

Listening to Wadan's answer she quickly came near to him. But as she got neared to him Wadan grasped her by her neck and took her to the nearby wall.

"You don't have any relation with him now Laraib, and nor with his son. You already destroyed his life. It's in your good that you leave him alone."

He said tightly holding her delicate neck in his stronghold. There was not an ounce of softness in his tone and gesture.

"He....he is also my son. No one can stop me from claiming my right."

His harshness wasn't impacting her a little. Because of suffocation, tears were flowing from her eyes.

But her lips were smiling in a smirk. And this was further intensifying his wrath. If he was wild then she was also his sister.

"Wadan leave her. She is your sister. Will you take away her life also?"

Silently looking at the craziness of both, he finally has to move ahead.

"I bring her up with my hands. If because of her mistake someone's innocent life is destroyed then I will not spare a minute to take away her life with my hands."

Moving away his hand with a jerk from her delicate neck he landed a powerful punch on the nearby wall beside her face.

"I'm not your Hadia who will silently listen to your every command. He is my son and I will take him away from Asfand. You can't stop me from doing so."

She was stroking her neck. Because of the stronghold marks of his grasp were apparent. But she wasn't bothered by it because she is harsh same as like her brother.

And she is used to his harshness.

"Despite all these years, nothing changed in you. Today you are still the same selfish Laraib Ali Shah. Only thinking about herself."

Responding to her in her way, he glared at her angrily and dashed out from there. While Dawood glanced at both brother and sister in despair and shook his head.

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"What I am listening to this? Are you refusing to go?"

He entered her room like a storm. She, who was sitting on the bed cracking her fingers, raised from the bed in fear when his dominating voice echoed in the silence of the room.

She was looking at him with her horrific eyes. He was dashing towards her with a frown on his forehead.

"Don't you have your tongue? What I am asking. Will you like to tell me the reason for not going?"

Today he was about to take Hadia to meet with that guy with whom he had fixed her nikkah (marriage agreement). But because of her denial, he came to her in fume and rage.

He was already mad at Laraib's activities nowadays and on top of that, this girl is now taking the test of his patience.

"I don't want to go with you and this time you can't force me into this."

This time she let her fear go and said to him without getting frightened.

When Dawood told her about this nikkah then for a long time she wasn't able to say a word. She knows how much possessive Wadan is for her.

But this wasn't in her illusion that he will take this decision of her life that easily and without asking her will.

Since yesterday she cried so much and her red eyes were evidence of this.

"And why does it feels to you that I am here to ask about your will? Get ready quickly. We are getting late."

He was startled for a moment looking at her red eyes. But he quickly regained his hard posture and said instantly in his normal expression.

"I told you I am not going with you and neither will I do this nikkah, you got it..... You can't force me for this."

This time she shouted from her heart out.

It was the first and perhaps last time in her life that she said something daringly to him standing in front of him.

Because the way he was standing glaring at her with bloodthirsty eyes was making Hadia feel that perhaps today will be her last day.

"This nikkah will surely happen, Hadia though forcefully."

Constricting his eyes, he came closer to her. He was astonished on looking at her this behavior. But he doesn't let it reveal to her.

"Why are you not getting it I will not do this nikkah. In fact, I will not do nikkah with anyone. You got it."

She said in determination. Because of speaking rapidly, her whole body was shaking slowly, slowly. But today she doesn't want herself to become weak. At least not today.

"Why you don't want to do this nikkah?"

He was controlling his rage. But on his question Hadia harshly chewed her lip.

"I'm asking you something Hadia. Answer me why you don't want to do this nikkah?"

This time he barked at her.

It wasn't possible for him to control his wrath for a long time.

"Because I love you. If I have to do nikkah then I will do this only with you....did you listen. Only you."

She laid her delicate finger on his chest and shouted to him. She doesn't know how today she summoned so much courage in herself.

Perhaps it's because of fear of losing her love which she has been doing since her childhood.

She knows it quite well the day she gained her senses she finds only Wadan, Dawood, and Laraib closer and revolving around herself.

She doesn't know who her parents is and neither has she ever tried to ask about it. She also loves Laraib but Laraib doesn't love her in the same way.

When she got a little mature then it was Laraib who told her that she is just the responsibility of Wadan. He is fulfilling it wholeheartedly and it was that time when her heart considered Wadan someone special for herself.

When her heart started blooming the flower of love on seeing Wadan's possessiveness and always a concern for herself, she himself wasn't aware of it.

Somewhere it also feels to her that maybe Wadan has also felt for her and yesterday her this hope was badly shattered.

But she also decided she will not lose her love like that. For that, if she has to act strong in front of that stone man she will do so.

She becomes silent after her confession but Wadan kept looking at her for a long time with a standstill look. It wasn't in his imagination that he will listen to these words from the mouth of that girl.

"Do you know what nonsense you are speaking? And how come this thought in your little mind?"

He was composing himself completely and said with an expressionless and cold voice.

But now a battle was going on inside of him.

"I'm not speaking nonsense. If I have to do nikkah then only with you. It's my last decision."

She said stubbornly.

Today this girl's behavior and speaking tone were totally different. To Wadan, it doesn't look like his Hadia whom he knows.

"You are just a responsibility for me, a promise. Taking care of your safety and ensuring your protection is my obligation. And there's nothing more than this."

He said in harshness while clinching his lips.

He still remembers it quite well when fifteen years old boy took three years old Hadia in his lap and promised to himself about her safety.

With whom he made this promise, he can't tell her. If he told her then the questions that were about to come from Hadia, he can't answer to these questions.

Maybe never in his life.

"If my protection for you is that much important then why are you sending me away from yourself?"

Hadia's heart broke and scattered on listening to his words. But she collect herself and again reasoned with him.

"Because it's for your betterment."

He diverted his eyes from her red eyes. His heart missed a beat. This all was also hard for him but he was apt in controlling his feelings.

"If it feels to you that this time I will obey your dictate then it's not like that. Other than you I will not do nikkah with anyone else. This is also my last decision."

She said stubbornly looking straight into his eyes.

Wadan's deep black eyes stared into her sea-green eyes. He can clearly see his reflection in her eyes. He diverted his eyes feeling nervous.

"Then you also listen to my decision neither I love you nor am I willing to do nikkah with you."

Saying in heartlessness, he turned to go out.

"I will force you not only to do nikkah with me but also love me."

His moving feet towards the door halted on listening to Hadia saying.

"Think before you speak Hadia, may it not happen that one day you regret what you said."

After saying this he didn't stopped. While Hadia standing behind him kept pondering over his words for a long time.