"Mr. Karlson, a man named Paul Haiden is here. He is claiming that he is this girl's uncle,"
Hearing Leo's words, Damien stretched his head to look at that little girl, Kaya, but his brows arched in confusion, by witnessing her lowered head.
"Do you know this man named Paul Haiden, Kaya? He asked her, gently and in return just found her nodding her head.
"Is he your uncle, dear?" Damien questioned again.
Kaya squeezed her eyes shut before wagging her head again in her answer.
Turning his head around, Damien looked at Leo and uttered curtly.
"Take him inside,"
Leo nodded and then walked out. Kaya's heart was throbbing inside her chest in fear. She didn't want to meet that man. He was inhuman and it was him from whom she was running away that day, but she knew better than to tell everyone the truth. The terror that man, Paul Haiden, had stored inside her heart was soul shivering. She couldn't even dare to tell him the truth to anyone about how much pain he had given her, both mentally and physically.
"Kaya……"
She clenched the bedsheet beneath her as soon as she heard that voice of that pathetic man which used to haunt her even in her closed eyes. She didn't take her head upward to look at that nasty human's face.
"Kaya, are you alright, my child? You don't know how much worried I was for you,"
Damien and Zia saw that man, who looked in the middle of his 40's, sitting beside her. He cupped her face, causing Kaya to dig her nails in the sheets. Her skin crawled in disgust at his touch. Her soul clenched in pain and fear.
"Why did you leave home that day? I have been looking for you everywhere since that day," Kaya neither answered, nor looked at him.
"We are sorry, Mr Haiden," Zia said. That man, Paul, darted his watery eyes at her.
"Kaya is in this state just because of me and I am really very sorry about it. I am genuinely guilty and sorry," Zia joined her hands in front of Paul. Her guilt was consuming her alive from inside. Her eyes watered.
"My wife is right, Mr Haiden. We are genuinely sorry for Kaya's state," Damien added. Paul sighed before focusing his eyes back at Kaya's bowed head.
"My Kaya is just like this from her childhood. She always thinks about others before herself," Paul uttered while circling his thumb against her cheek. Kaya shivered in horror.
"But where are her parents?" Damien asked. Paul turned his head towards him.
"Her parents died in a car crash when she was just 11. Probably this must be the reason, she turned so desperate to save your wife's life that she didn't care about herself," Paul trailed his gaze back at Kaya whose tears were silently rolling down from her eyes.
"She has no one in this world except me. I'm her father's, Ken Haiden's elder brother,"
The tears in Kaya's eyes turned aggressive, but that helpless girl couldn't say anything, not because she had lost her ability to speak but because she was terrified to speak against that man.
With each passing moment, Damien's and Zia's hearts were getting filled with more and more pity and sympathy for Kaya.
"How is her health now? Would she ever be able to talk?" Paul asked. Damien breathed out before answering.
"The doctors are going to try their best and we have full faith that Kaya will be able to talk soon,"
Kaya took her watery eyes upward and gazed at Damien. His words flickered a hope inside her. That man, Damien, radiated a beautiful warmth to her, like the tenderness of a guardian. Even his wife, Zia, was making her feel those amiable emotions which she had always wanted to feel from the day she had lost her parents.
"What is going to be the cost of her treatment? I mean….." Paul hesitated. Kaya was fast enough to understand what cunningness he was trying to do there.
"You don't have to worry about her treatment. I will cover all the expenses of her treatment, and me and my wife would be grateful if you let us take care of her well-being from now on, Mr Haiden," Damien said, glancing at his wife. His wife nodded at him in agreement.
"I will be more than grateful to you both for this because I ……" Paul lowered his head.
"I could barely manage to pay for her basic livelihood. I know I shouldn't say this but your help will be more than appreciated,"
"Don't worry, Mr Haiden. From now on, Kaya is a part of Karlson's family, so we will do our best to cherish her in every possible way," Zia stated, while sending a warm smile to Kaya. Kaya's heart ached, at her words but she couldn't say anything to them.
She was gazing at Zia when Paul blocked her vision by standing in front of her.
"Hope my Kaya is going to get her voice back soon,"
Her existence quivered, hearing Paul uttering those words and especially the way he was gazing at her. She again just downcast her eyes and closed them, but there stood Damien who was keenly watching her every reaction.
After a week, Kaya got discharged from the hospital. Paul told that he was going to take her back to their home and Zia and Damien knew they had no say in it.
Damien decided to drop them to their home to which Paul agreed, and Damien also noticed something really very unusual in her presence. Like not only her voice had turned silent but her entire demeanour had turned numb too. He couldn't understand what was exactly going inside her head.
Damien halted his car in front of the address which Paul was instructing him. All three of them got out of the car.
"This is our home," Paul spoke. Damien saw a small house in front of him.
"Please come inside, Mr Karlson,"
Damien nodded at Paul and then trailed his eyes at Kaya. Like usual, that girl had stopped taking her eyes upward from the ground and it was not settling well with him.
They entered that house. Damien found that that house just had one small bedroom and a bathroom. He silently observed everything.
"Please sit,"
"No, I have to go now. I will visit some other time, Mr Haiden," Saying that Damien turned towards Kaya. He walked towards her. Her head was still lowered.
Damien kneeled in front of her. He tenderly took her little palm in his.
"Kaya….."
She slowly took her upward finally and Damien turned bewildered, witnessing those tears glistening in her eyes.
"Why are you crying, dear?" He asked her. She just shook her head and tightly clutched his hand, like she didn't want to let him go, but Paul bragged in and detached her hand away from Damien's.
"She is probably going to miss you and your wife. That's why," Paul said, beaming. Damien gazed into her watery eyes. He placed his palm over her cheek
"You are always welcome to come into our home to meet us, my child. I and Zia will try our best to come here and meet you, so don't cry please,"
She just slowly nodded her head at him. Damien smiled and then got up on his feet. Maintaining his stature, he told Paul.
"Take care of her. You can contact me anytime if you need my help with anything. The doctors will visit her every day, and I will try to visit her soon,"
Paul dipped his head. Damien diverted his gaze at Kaya where he saw a tear slipping down from her eyes as she was silently staring at him. Damien understood at that moment that something was not right there. He identified fear and pain in her silence.
Twirling on his heels, he walked out of the door and Kaya just watched her only hope to escape from that treacherous pain leaving her alone to suffer there.
The door got closed and her glossy eyes finally met with those wicked orbs of Paul's. Horror washed over her, witnessing his clenched jaw and fisted palms.
"Your little game is over my Kaya,"
She immediately took back her feet. Her whole body was trembling in fear.
"What do you think by running away from here, you would be able to escape me?" A vicious grin formed on Paul's face, causing her soul to shudder.
"Did you forget what I did to you last time when you tried to escape?"
Her eyes burnt up in tears, recalling that day when he tried to cross all limits of humanity with her and how much his brutality had hurted, both her soul and body.
She joined her hands in front of him and shook her head vigorously. She opened her mouth but couldn't voice anything.
Paul chuckled, cunningly.
"It's better that you have lost your voice. I don't need to tape your mouth anymore to hold back your screams,"
She continued to walk backward until her back didn't get pressed against the wall. She clutched her hands tightly and begged him through her tears, but she knew that the animal in front of her was merciless because he had never shown his mercy to her before doing his cruelty on her.
Paul walked towards her and stood in front of her, while maintaining his vicious grin. Kaya fell on the ground and clutched her hands in front of him. She closed her eyes and started gasping while crying, realising what he was about to do to her.
"No one is going to save you from me, Kaya…" Paul lowered himself and stretched his hand towards her.
"No o…" Paul's words remained incomplete. His hands halted in the middle, hearing the door bursting open.
Kaya snapped her watery eyes open and her soul felt relief by watching that person standing at the door…..
Damien's emerald eyes had darkened with fury. Lifting his gun upward, he straight aimed it at Paul, freezing him in terror.
After leaving Kaya's home, Damien was striding towards his car. He reached his car and then shoved his hand in his coat's pocket to take out his keys.Damien took out his keys but along with the keys, he saw a folded page coming out of his pocket and then it fell on the ground. His brows wiggled in confusion. Lowering his body, Damien grabbed that page and then unfolded it, and the second he read what was written on it, his eyes widened.'Please help me, uncle. I don't want to go with him. He hurted me a lot. I was running away from him. He is a bad person. He will hurt me again. Don't let him take me, please…..help me…'Damien knew who had written that letter because he had become familiar with her handwriting in the past couple of days. So, that was why she was looking so terrified and was crying.Turning his head, Damien gazed at that closed door where he had just left her. Fisting that paper in his palm, Damien dashed towards it. He kicked open the door, causing it to burst open,
"What is she doing here?" Kaya slightly shivered at that hoarse tone of his voice. She clutched Damien's hand while hiding herself behind him. Stretching her head a bit, she peeked at that stranger with those icy blue eyes and stone hard voice.She gulped, witnessing his eyes already on her. She again hid herself completely behind Damien. Zian clenched his jaw at her stupid behaviour. Is she mental or what? Why was she hiding herself from him like he was a damn ugly monster? Zian tore his eyes away from her to look at his father, and before he could ask anything further, he heard his father shutting him off."Kaya is going to stay here with us from now on,"So this little rat's name is Kaya, but wait…did he hear his father correctly? Is she going to live with them here, in their own house?"What? But doesn't she have her family or her own house to live in?" He questioned, without caring how rude he might sound. Kaya felt extremely hurt after hearing his question. She lowered her eye
Kaya swallowed. She felt like her throat had turned extremely dry. That person before her was staring at her like she was his biggest enemy. Zian glared at that tiny figure in front of him. His gaze noticed that terror in her eyes. Why is she acting like a damn victim? That so-called role of being afraid and naive in front of people. He was well aware of all these tactics of gaining sympathy but he wasn't going to fall for it, like his parents had fallen.Kaya was planning on turning on her heels and running away from there when she finally heard him asking her that certain question."So you have already started showing your true colours?" He spat, gazing at her hand. She was clutching his mother's phone and he was sure she was planning on stealing it.Kaya couldn't comprehend the meaning of his words. That poor girl was too afraid of him to understand anything until."So where exactly are you planning on hiding my mum's phone?" He uttered, harshly. She just gaped at him and then at
Damien entered the room and saw Zia sitting on the bed. She was caressing Kaya's head who had fallen asleep. Her head was placed on Zia's lap. Noticing his presence, Zia looked at him. With a sigh, he walked towards them. Sitting on the bed, Damien glanced at Kaya's face. Her tear stains were still clearly visible on her cheeks. Exhaling sharply, he gently kneaded that kid's hair. He still couldn't believe his own son got so harsh on that girl who had saved his mother's life by putting her own life at risk."Did you scold him?" Zia asked, a bit worried. Damien huffed before nodding gently. He looked at his wife."I didn't want to, Zia, but he left me with no other option, mi vida," This time Damien sounded upset too. It was not like he loved scolding his son. He just wanted what was good for him. "After the way he was talking to her and the things he said to her, I just couldn't make myself to ignore his behaviour anymore," Zia sighed. She placed her palm over his hand and clutch
Zia was feeding Kaya some fruits. They both were present in the hall. It was the time of the evening. "A little more, Kaya baby," Zia uttered, extending the piece of apple to Kaya's mouth. The little girl shook her head. Her aunty Zia had almost fed her an entire huge bowl of fruits. Her tiny tummy couldn't endure it anymore. "Kaya, just one more. This is the last piece. After that you have to finish this glass of milkshake," Zia said. Kaya's doctor had suggested giving her protein and nutritious food because Kaya was extremely weak. She was 15 years old but her physical appearance looked like she was barely 9 or 10. Kaya huffed and again jiggled her head. She rubbed her tummy and then pouted, indicating her tummy was already about to burst out. Zia chuckled, watching her adorable reactions. She squeezed her cheeks, making the little girl giggle. The doorbell rang, gaining their attention. "I will look, wait," Zia got up from the sofa and walked towards the door. She opened the d
The sound of the glasses and people cheering, loud music were resonating in that club. "Here comes the star of our night. The bad boy, Zian Karlson," Austin uttered, raising his glass of wine, watching Zian entering the place.Zian rolled his eyes. Shoving his hands in his pocket, he walked inside like he owned that place. Girls gazed at him with desires, not only just because he had some looks to desire for but almost everyone in their campus had heard how of a beast he was in bed.Ignoring the flirty and seductive smiles the girls were giving him, Zian walked towards his friend Austin, John and Hedrick."Took you long enough, Karlson," Austin asked, sipping from his glass. "Was stuck in traffic," Zian answered while signalling a waiter to come towards him with his fingers.Grabbing the glass of alcohol from the tray, he dismissed the waiter."I seriously needed this," he uttered, chugging down the entire glass in one go."Easy there, Zian. What happened, buddy?" John asked. A scow
Zian reached his home and entered the house by unlocking the door through the passcode. The lights were slightly dimmed but we're still on and he knew his mother had left them on for him. He had already texted her that he had come back, so she didn't need to get worried about him.He had some drinks but he was not drunk because he had a high alcohol tolerance, but he didn't want his parents to catch him like that, so he hurriedly strode towards his room.Zian reached his room and was about to open its door when his ear caught the jiggling of those metallic bells which made him tilt his head.His jaw set by watching that only person he wanted to see at that moment. She was walking towards his direction. She was yawning while rubbing her eyes. It looked like she had gotten up from her heavy sleep.Kaya was rubbing her sleepy eyes because she got the urge to use the bathroom in the middle of her heavy slumber and her room didn't have a bathroom inside it, so she had to come outside and u
Zia's eyes filled with more tears, witnessing it.Kaya, who was standing outside the door and was peeking inside the room while hiding herself behind the wall, her eyes widened. What was really happening there?"What the fuck is this, Zian Karlson? You have turned so disgusting," Zian recovered from the shock after hearing his father's growling voice. It was the very first time in his life, his father had raised his hand at him. None of his parents had ever raised their hands at him, no matter what he had done but today…. today his dad slapped him and he didn't even know why."What the fuck is this? How dare you?" Damien shouted while raising his hand again but this time, Zia held his hand. "No, please…." Her teary eyes begged him. Damien scowled. His patience was on the edge of leaving him. How could his son do something like this? He had given his child freedom to live his life happily but not to destroy it by doing such things.Tilting his head, Zian saw his father holding that
"Kiana, baby where are you?" Kaya's voice started shuddering as her tears started gathering in her eyes. She couldn't find her 3-year- old daughter. "She was playing in the garden when I came inside to pick up my call, mum," Kaya told her mother-in-law, Zia. They both turned extremely terrified. Their 3 year old toddler went missing inside their home but how was that possible? They both searched for her in the entire house when they heard the sound of the doorbell ringing. Zia's teary eyes widened. "Damien is here," both the women exchanged an extremely worried glance because they knew how Damien was going to react if he could find his granddaughter in front of his eyes. Zia opened the door and Damien's smile faded when he witnessed those tears glistening in his wife's eyes. He stepped inside hurriedly. "What happened, Zia?" He asked her which brought more tears to both the women's eyes. It turned Damien more concerned. "What happened? Why you ….." he stopped when he noticed som
"Zia, ,you don't have to do it all alone, mi vida," Damien uttered, watching his wife pacing around the entire hall as she was decorating it with her own hands. Damien tried to help her but she refused to let anyone else do that work because she wanted to do it all by herself because today her children were coming back home. Zian and Kaya are coming back home after more than a month. Damien sighed, watching his wife's excitement and enthusiasm. He was also very happy, knowing they were finally coming back. His family was finally going to get completed. He was just hoping for his son's acceptance because Damien knew, somehow he was the reason behind his son having to suffer so much. He knew he couldn't become a good father because throughout his life, he focused on making his son a good person but he forgot that he needed to embrace his child's bad too. The sound of the door bell ringing gained the couple's attention. Damien saw his wife's eyes tinkling with happiness. He chuckled.
"Wow, the food tastes delicious. You are an amazing cook, Kaya," Kaya giggled, hearing her grandpa Zale. They were having their dinner."I have also helped her. You can pass some praises to mee too, Mr Alcazar," Zian uttered, showing his fake offence because he and Kaya, they both had cooked that dinner together for Zale. Zale laughed whereas Kaya chuckled."Wait, I forgot the dessert. I will get it from the kitchen," Kaya said and tried to get up from the chair but Zian stopped her."You finish your dinner. I am done with mine, so I will get it," he stated, making her smile. She wagged her head which he returned with a soft beam and then he left from that hall and went to the kitchen. Zale noticed that beautiful love blooming between the couple which made him content too. After all, what else would he want more than watching his family so happy but he was aware that a part of his family might be completely restless now. His daughter and son-in-law. Zale sighed, which gained Kaya's a
Zian continued to gape at her like a statue whereas her tears refused to stop. She also gazed at him, like she was staring at her life's most valuable and precious belonging. She couldn't just believe she was about to lose him, just because of her ignorance and lack of awareness. He was suffering so much from the very beginning but here she was considering herself a victim. But her pain was nothing as compared to his because she was able to share it with the people around her but he was not even capable of telling about his pain to his own self, let alone sharing it with someone else."Zian, why did you leave home? You didn't get hurt somewhere, right? Please tell me," she cupped his face and asked him. Kaya still didn't pay attention to the fact that now her words had gotten its voice because she was too indulged in his pain to care about her own. Tears aggressively fell from her eyes until she saw a stupid kind of smile forming on his face. She thought he was intoxicated, that was
"Because Zian knew that Damien would never let you be with him, no matter what and besides, he was aware of his mental health too that he would end up hurting you….." Zale stated to her."That he is at that stage of his condition where he could hurt and harm anyone physically, even you. Zian knew you didn't deserve to be with someone like him who didn't even have control over his own emotions. He had told me that he has even tried to hurt you physically in his anger," her dried up eyes again glossed. She remembered that he had hurted her physically a lot of times, like grabbing her neck and wrist painfully. He had even hurted her badly that night when they both got intimate for the second time in his friend's resort. She had even seen his deadly possession everytime he had caught her with Leo. All those were the clear signals which she never tried to understand."After realising his feelings for you, he decided to let you go because he knew he would end up tainting you both mentally a
"Zian told me to come here so that I could take you back home," Her body stiffened, along with her heart, hearing her grandpa Zale. So that's why he has told him to come here? So that he could send her away. But isn't this what she was wanting? She had asked him this morning to take her back home then why was it not making her happy anymore? He was finally doing something right. He was rectifying his mistake then why was it bringing so much restlessness and pain to her? Was he right? Is her love so selfish? Zale silently watched that enormous amount of pain flashing in her eyes after he revealed that thing to her. Zian had called him today and told him to come here as soon as possible and took Kaya away from here. He asked him why suddenly and the answer he gave him was … "He told me you have asked him for something for the first time in his life, so he could never dare decline it," Zale uttered. Her eyes immediately moistened, at his words. Zale found her tearing her eyes away fr
"Then set me free and take me back home for our love's sake,"Zian felt like every part of his body got deprived of all kinds of sensations, hearing those words of hers. His smiling face turned completely gloomy. His emotions numbed, except for that seething pain which her statement had brought to him. Her eyes filled with tears when she noticed his entire presence turning emotionless. His grip automatically started loosening around her hands but she held them firmly."You know this is wrong. What you have done is wrong. We can't live our life like this," she tried to make him understand because after last night, Kaya understood the more she would fight with him the more insane his madness was going to be, so she decided to deal with him calmly and with no facade of anger."We would never be able to live our life happily by running away from our past. We have to face it, so please take me back home, please…" a tear slipped down from her eyes as she begged him. He didn't answer but co
Each and every single thing froze around them as soon as they both felt the warmth of their mouths colliding with each other. It felt like their souls had started connecting. Their hearts were getting intertwined. The pain of getting apart from each other had now finally started satiating and numbing. Their hearts screamed at them how cruel they both were to even think about getting away from each other when they both wanted and needed to live their lives with each other and for each other.Tiny droplets of water trickled down from both of their bodies as they both held each other firmly, like if they would even loosened a bit, then someone might slip away which they couldn't afford at all. Gripping his muscular and huge back, Kaya let her tears get mixed with the sweetness of her mouth. Her tears stained both of their cheeks but did he complain? Not at all. He had accepted every inch of hers as his and was now begging for her to accept every good and worst of his.Slowly feeding on
"Took you long enough to understand that…. something is wrong with me, mi nena," his voice turned dangerously low. Her heartbeat dropped in fear. "Because a normal person never behaves and thinks the way I do…,," he leaned his face closer to her, almost brushing their lips. "A normal person never loves the way I love you, Kaya," he breathed out hotly against her mouth. Her existence trembled. Now she was understanding something that it was really not normal. His behaviour, his actions, something was wrong with him but what? They both peered into each other's eyes. Zian saw those questions emerging in her eyes which made him leave her arm. "Let's get inside. You will get ill under this weather," he told her. She finally realised that the weather here was really very chilly as compared to her hometown. It was freezing cold and she was wearing nothing but his shirt and he was out of imagination. Half naked. Zian tried to hold her hand while saying "Come on. Let's get…." His words re