You're Our Family

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, and wrath engulfed each and every part of his body by witnessing her state. She was sitting on the floor, against the wall. Her hands were joined as she was begging to that animal who was towering over her.  

Paul turned his head and his eyes bewildered, watching Damien standing at the door. His piercing blazing gaze was looking treacherous. He darted his eyes at Kaya and her tears and that terror in her eyes told him everything. His jaw clenched, vigorously. Even a blind could understand what brutality he was about to do to her. It made Damien see red. Fishing out his gun from his pocket, he pointed it straight at Paul who was looking horrified now .

Damien stepped inside, without taking his burning eyes away from Paul's. In pure instinct, Paul took his steps backward.

"Come here, Kaya," Damien uttered, glaring at Paul.

Kaya turned still in fear by watching that gun in Damien's hand. Damien trailed his gaze at her. His eyes softened, witnessing her state.

"Come here, dear. I will never hurt you," 

Kaya wiped her eyes. That poor soul didn't know what to do but it was better than to stay with that pathetic animal, Paul. She tried to walk towards Damien but Paul grabbed her arm in the middle.

"Get out of my house, right now, Damien Karlson. It's between her and me, so you have no need to get involved in it," Paul spat at Damien. Kaya hissed the way he was clutching her arm. A vein on Damien's neck stretched out.

"Leave….her…..alone," Damien stressed out each and every word of his. It turned Paul more terrified, but he decided to show Damien his authority.

"It's our family matter. You….." Paul's words remained incomplete whereas a painful scream escaped from his mouth, feeling that bullet piercing through his hand. His grip loosened around her. 

Pure terror washed over Kaya by watching the blood oozing from his hand. She got away from him. Paul turned his head and saw Damien's gun still aiming at him. His gun didn't cause a noise but the smoke scattering around his gun's barrel indicated its usage. The pain shooting all over his arm, made Paul fall to the floor. He started groaning in pain.

Lowering his gun down, Damien turned his head towards Kaya. That poor kid was looking traumatised in fear. Damien walked towards her and then kneeled in front of her.

"Was he trying to hurt you again?" He asked her. Kaya remained silent, but her tears didn't. Damien placed his palm over her face gently.

"Tell me, Kaya. Don't be afraid, my child. Tell me the truth and I promise, I will never let him even get closer to you, let alone harming you. Tell me, dear. Was he trying to hurt you again?" 

His words finally gave her the courage she had lost all this time. Her tears turned aggressive as she nodded her head in her reply to Damien. Damien dug his nails in his palm. 

Standing up on his feet, he held her little palm in his. He averted his eyes at Paul who was writhing in pain on the ground.

"I would give you what you deserve, Paul, but not in front of this kid," Damien's hands were itching to take that bastard's life who was hurting and harming that innocent soul of hers, but he didn't want that little girl, Kaya, to witness such things which would haunt her throughout her life.

Damien took Kaya out of that house and she just followed him silently because she was desperate to get away from Paul's cruel crawls anyhow.

Damien opened his car's door and settled Kaya inside it. He locked her seatbelt and then closed the door. Before getting to his driving seat, he took out his phone and then dialled a certain person's number.

"I have texted you the address. Come to that place right now, Leo,"

…………….

Zia was chopping vegetables for their dinner when she heard the doorbell ringing. Dropping the knife, she cleaned her hands with the apron she was wearing and then walked out of her kitchen.

She opened the door and found her husband standing at the door. 

"Damien, you…." Her words halted when her eyes darted towards that person who was standing beside him. 

"Kaya?" Her brows furrowed in untidiness. Stepping away, she let both of them come inside. Zia closed the door. She couldn't understand what was happening there. He had gone to drop her and her uncle, Paul, to their home, then what she was doing there with him?

"Damien,"she took his name. Damien understood her confusion. With a soft sigh, he took out that letter which Kaya had slided inside his pocket. Damien handed it to his wife, Zia. 

She turned more perplexed. Zia grabbed that page from him and then looked at Kaya who had her head lowered. Opening the letter, Zia started reading it. 

First she didn't comprehend what was written in it but when she did, Zia felt like heart went numb. Her eyes broadened.

"Kaya slided this chit in my pocket in the hospital," Damien cleared her all the doubts. He told her everything…what he had witnessed in that place which they were mistaken as Kaya's home and about that animal, Paul.

Zia's eyes watered immediately, understanding everything. She looked at Kaya who still had her eyes lowered. Walking towards her, Zia crouched down in front of her.

"Kaya," her teary voice took her name. Kaya took her head upward slowly and Zia felt a sting in her heart by watching those tears silently rolling down from that kid's eyes who had suffered so much. 

Zia pulled her into her arms and hugged her tightly. She was feeling ashamed, realising how brutal humanity had turned. How could someone hurt a child like that? She was only 15 but the pain she had suffered was unendurable.

Kaya broke down into tears and started gasping. Damien understood she was trying to tell them something because she was moving her lips. 

The couple settled her on the sofa and gave her a pen and a paper. They silently watched her writing down something on it with her shivering hands. Her tears were continuously dripping from her eyes.

She handed Zia the page after writing down what she wanted to tell them and as soon as the couple read what she had written on it, their heads lowered in shame whereas their hearts clutched in pain.

Zia told them through her written words that after her parents died, she started living with Paul at the age of 11 and how badly from the very first day, Paul had started hurting her, both mentally and physically. He had harmed her by burning her naked skin, giving her scratches and not only this, he had sexually assaulted her too by touching her inappropriately countless times. He had restrained himself from forcing himself on her because he wanted to sell her as a virgin to someone and that day, when she saved Zia from that accident, she had escaped from Paul and was trying to run away from him because she had heard him talking to someone in the phone call about selling her to them that day.

More tears gathered into Zia's eyes whereas Damien just closed his eyes in order to calm himself down, after knowing about all of this. He had made a note in his head to kill each and every person who had tried to harm her, and for Paul, Damien had already decided to give him an end which would shivered anyone's being in terror.

Zia palmed Kaya's face and wiped her tears stained cheeks.

"I am so sorry, my baby. You have to endure so much. I am so sorry," Zia uttered and again engulfed her tiny fragile figure in her arms.

"We are so sorry, my dear. So sorry," Kaya placed her head on her shoulder and closed her eyes. She wrapped her petite arms around Zia, making Damien sigh.

He kneeled down beside both the girls. Caressing Kaya's head gently.

"We promise, me and your aunty, Zia, will never let anyone hurt or harm you ever again. Never…" 

Kaya blinked, after hearing Damien. Damien exchanged a glance with his wife before focusing his eyes back at Kaya.

"Will you stay here with us from now on? Will you be a part of our family, Kaya?" Damien asked her.

Kaya's heart ached in pain. Family…. She was dying to have a family where someone would love, care and cherish her. Did her fate have finally shown some mercy on her?

"Yes, Kaya. Will you accept our request to stay in our home with us, from now on? Will you let us make our home your home too?" Zia politely uttered. Kaya broke into tears before hugging Zia tightly and then she buried her face into her neck.

Zia immediately caged her back. The couple understood that she needed their love, care and warmth and they were sure that they were going to give her that with no restraints.

Zia looked at Damien who just gently blinked his eyes at her in return and then they both caressed that sobbing little girl's head.

"Okay now, no more tears. We won't let our beautiful Kaya cry ever," Zia said, wiping Kaya's entire face and eyes with her palms tenderly.

"We are going to give her all the happiness in this world, right, Damien?" 

Damien smiled, hearing his wife before nodding. He patted Kaya's head tenderly.

"Of course we will, because our Kaya deserves every happiness in this world, so we will give her that," he stated, making Kaya weakly smile too.

"So for the starting, we have to fill our Kaya's tummy with something really very tasty and then we will take her out for shopping where we are going to buy so many beautiful dresses for her," Zia beamed while saying that. She pecked Kaya's head, swelling up her heart with warmth.

The couple stood up on their feet and Kaya got down from the sofa with the help of Zia. She hugged Damien's legs as her height was very small as compared to Damien's. She mouthed a thank you to him which he understood and smiled. 

Damien stroked her head carefully, mindful of her head injury. 

"Zia, where is Zian?" Damien asked. Zia's face fell. 

"I think he is still sleeping in his room," Zia's answer turned Damien angry. 

"At this time of the hour? He is still sleeping?" Damien uttered, both angry and in disbelief. His anger turned Zia worried, whereas little Kaya was curiously wandering her eyes everywhere. Her new home. It was really very beautiful. 

With a little smile, she was roaming her astonished gaze around her but as soon as her gaze fell on that unknown figure standing at a distance which were gazing at her with those icy blue eyes of his, Kaya hurriedly hid herself behind Damien and started peeking at that stranger because that stranger was giving her spooky stares.

"What is she doing here?" Zian's displeased tone resonated, gaining his parents' attention on him.