Several minutes have passed and now Zahra was calmed. She felt safer in his presence. She knew he won't let anyone hurt her. He will protect her as he promised. But she was forgetting that she now only needs to protect herself from him because if he came to know about the games which she is playing with her, hell will break on her. Zahra noticed her whereabouts, he wasn't going towards the haveli and she panicked as that thought once again consumed her mind that he got to know about Daniyal. It was on her mind all the time like a looming threat. "Where are we going?" she asked. "Somewhere" was his short reply. Internally, she was panicking, again as many negative thoughts surrounded her mind. 'There is nothing like that Zahra. He doesn't know about anything. If he did he wouldn't have acted so sweet then.' Her subconscious chided in making her relax. 'It was all because those boys were following you. Why did he come to take you from university when it was Haseeb's duty. He migh
And after a short while they both were done eating there food. Irtaza and Zahra both were leaving the resturaunt when her eyes fell on a young boy sitting on the footpath mending shoes. He was a cobbler. Zahra asked Irtaza to buy some food for him and give him some money while Irtaza called his men from the 'curbing child labour' agency and ordered them to support the boy along with his family. Irtaza's heart swelled with pride when Zahra asked to buy the boy food as well. She wasnt like other. She was different and really special to him. While Zahra was surprised that Irtaza had opened centres to support the poor people. She was really impressed. Despite being a heartless mafia don, Irtaza had opened various agencies and centres to help and support the needy and poor people. He knew how miserably poor people are living in this country so he decided to do something for them. They both reached the haveli and he stopped the car infront of the haveli gates. He had spent a good qua
Four days passed in a blur. At last the day arrived. It was today when Zahra and Daniyal will be running away. Right now Zahra was in the car, going towards her university. Only Haseeb was with her as Haya and Dua took a leave today. The whole ride her heart was heavy with a strong feeling of guilt. Last night she had hugged tightly both Dua and Haya as an uncertain feeling of depression loomed over her heart. She was depressed leaving her cousins and also felt sorry for Irtaza but she had no choice other than that. She had also went straight to Irtaza's study, surprising him. She had never been in his study until called by him. And then both of them had talked and talked. Zahra was feeling sad for him and before leaving the study, she gave him a backward glance and uttered a small, 'goodbye' before turning around and saying a small sorry in her heart to him. "When should I come to pick you up?" Haseeb asked. Zahra didn't want to go with any driver and fortunately Haseeb's, Zahra's,
An hour passed and it was 11 oclock when she got a call from Daniyal. "Hello Zahra. I'm standing at the back side of your university." "Ok ok I'm coming." She answered cutting the call and hurriedly wore her burkha, and covered her face with a mask so no guard could recognise her. She suddey felt so happy. Her legs begin to move fastly as she almost ran towards the back gate of university and got out of the gate. Her eyes fell on Daniyal who was standing by the car. And time stopped for her. The world stopped. The people stopped. Her heart begin to beat fastly. The moment arrived for which she was waiting since so long. It felt to her as if he was the only person present there and no one else. Her legs begin to shake with happiness while looking towards him. She had completely covered herself that Daniyal didn't recognsie that she was Zahra and was looking around here and there, trynig to find her. She took a step towards him and her eyes filled with tears. He was standing
Haseeb turned the car towards Irtaza's office. His heart was beating fast. By Irtaza's tone, he could figure it out that he was angry. Extremely angry. And this thought was making him shiver. He was afraid of his big cousin brother. And he was afraid for Zahra as well. He was shocked to hear that Irtaza and Zahra are already married and his heart wrenched for Zahra that she was forced into this relation. So he decided to help her, trying his best to somehow save her from Irtaza and cover the situation but after getting his call, he could hardly save himself from him. On the other hand, Zahra's whole body was shivering. She was tightly holding both her hands together. A terror Utter terror, had hazed her mind. Her breaths were labored. She was hyperventilating. Her heart was thumping fast. Her stomach churned with fear. Her limbs were shaky. Her eyes had tears in them which were freely flowing out making them red. She could practically hear the beating of her wild heart in her ea
"and when they both pul..led away, he had held her ne...ck and plac...ed his li...ps on hers for a second when I immediately reached there and punched him." Haseeb spilled out the whole truth. Her eyes fell on his hand which turned into a fist and her heart stopped there. "Bhai believe me, Zahra wasn't ready to kiss that man, before she could stop him he had k-" "Enough" Irtaza said, trying to control himself. And Haseeb stopped there. He saw it, irtaza was trying to calm himself but his anger was surfacing. "Now where's that boy, Daniyal?" He asked, taking a heavy breath trying to control himself. On the other hand, Zahra was already crying, because of her wretched face. She was afraid. Terrified. Petrified. She was feeling bad for Haseeb that she had to face this all because of her. She was afraid for Daniyal, Irtaza was asking about him and that was making her heart beat wildly in her chest. "Bhai I as...ked the men to fr..ee him" He stuttered again, witnessing the immense
They both were left alone as soon Haseeb was taken out of his office. Finding herself alone with him, Zahra begin to hiccup with pure fear and her eyes nearly came out of there sockets when he begin to move towards her and she impulsively begin take few steps backwards. Her teeth begin to clatter on seeing his calm livid form. "I...(hiccup)...sor..ry (hiccup)" she stuttered, lightly hicupping unable to form a coherent sentence. She was already crying. "For what my love?" He asked in his deceiving sweet tone, taking a step towards her. Her heart skipped beat. "I...am...(hiccup)" again she failed to complete her sentence due to the immense fear as she took a step back and he took one towards her. She was alone, no one can save her now. "What happened? Why're you crying?" He feigned ignorance, moving towards her, his hands inside his pockets and his head tilted a bit. His face, his features had schooled back there calm expression but they both knew what he was feeling from inside
Her eyes opened and she found herself surrounded in dark. Her head was in extreme pain and she was feeling dizzy. Her scalp was still burning and her swollen cheeks were red and hot with pain. She slowly sat up, a croaky moan left her throat, and begin to look around and touch various objects, figuring it out that she was not in her room. Her breathing quickened as she recalled the last moments before she fainted. His raged grey eyes was the only thing which begin to continuously linger in her mind making cold sweats to pop out of her mind. He came to know about everything, every single thing.. Now the question was what he will be doing with her. And this thought alone was making her want to kill herself. She stood up from the bed and begin to walk towards what she assumed was the door. Her whole body was shaking badly. Ominous thoughts clustered in her mind making her more trepidatious. She was afraid to encounter him again. She had no idea how he will treat her now. His words out