Possession by Laila Ali (best authors to read txt) 📕

"You did not fine me worthy enough to tell me that my brother has forced you into this marriage." Dua snapped.

"Also I didn't expect that from you that you can stoop so low, just to gain your lover by your side you played with my brother's emotion. Only for once, just for once if you had discussed the whole matter with me I had helped you in every possible way to get out of this forced marriage Zahra but what you did? What you did Zahra? What the fuck you did? Keeping my brother's action aside, how can you do that to someone, leave this thing that he is my brother. How can you do that to anyone Zahra? I considered you a very nice girl inside out, with a pure heart but my assumptions about you were certainly wrong. I didn't want to be closer to a girl who plays with other emotions, who find it so easy to crush someone's feelings only to get what she wants." Dua ranted and Zahra just looked at her with wide teary eyes.

Her words were hitting her heart like a dagger. 

"And you know Zahra I had seen it in my brother's eyes, the love, the admiration, the fondness just for you. He had never exhibited such emotions for anyone. He has been in love with you since his childhood. For his whole life, he had just waited for the right moment to marry you. Just think about this, a person who had waited someone for his whole damn life, and when that someone enters into his life, she plays with his emotions in such a brutal way. Just think, how much it had hurt that person.You know my mother, she was in an extramarital affair. She was betraying my father behind his back and one night Irtaza and Shehryaar bhai, they both caught her with that man in her room when Baba and Uncle were out of country. And then my mother committed suicide, my brother saw with their own bare eyes, her hanging body from the ceiling, her dead eyes looking towards them, they were too young. After that incident my brother had closed the gates of his heart for anyone. He became a killer. He found it really hard to trust anyone, gaining his trust has always been the biggest task for his subordinates. But Zahra, he liked you, since his childhood. And you broke his trust just like my mother. You once again brought back those horrendous memories in my brother's life. You crushed his heart. You once again made him a living corpse. You stole the reason of his life. You took away that light from his eyes which we saw after decades. I know he forced you into this marriage and his actions could also not be justified that is why I am also ignoring my own brother. Both of you are wrong but atleast I didn't expect that from you Zahra."

Zahra's eyes were tear filled, tears were freely cascading down, flowing to her neck. It was too much for her to handle. The pain of betrayal and guilt collided in her heart. She found it difficult even to breathe.

"Both of you are wrong but this wasn't expected from you Zahra. Just think for once if that Daniyal had played with your emotions like that? If he had played heinous games just to gain your trust and then break it, leaving you all alone in a blind alley. I was also in love with someone once and that man went away, betraying me. You have no idea Zahra how much pain I have to go through because of it. The pain of betrayal is the worst pain ever. It crushes hopes and expectations, it steals the will to live and I have went through the same pain two times in my life. It wasn't expected from you Zahra. If you had told me that you were forced I might have taken a solution out but you way of handling this matter was erroneous. Even for once you had thought before running away with that guy, that what humiliation your whole would have to bear? The respect which our family earned over the years would have been destroyed. This wasn't expected from you, I didn't expect any of this thing from you" Dua said it all and then stood up before leaving the cafeteria.

She sniffed clearing her tears, she had lost her appetite and then she left the cafeteria too.

By evening her mother was discharged from hospital. Everything was fine now. Doctor had suggested Ammara not to take any emotional stress or any tension otherwise her situation could get serious. And now it was the time to go back.

Zahra on insistence of her elders went with her mother to haveli for a week. And she kept herself locked in her mother's room. She won't come at the table for breakfast, lunch or dinner, when her food was served to her in her mother's room, she won't eat anything other than some fruits which her mother forced down to her throat. At night, her eyes used to be wide awake, she was feeling numb but sometimes she would cry hugging her mother tightly. Her mother could feel the pain her daughter was going through. But most of the time Zahra would just feel only numbness, she knew if she unlocked her emotions she would want to kill herself so she locked everything inside her, not pondering on anything that happened to her.

Dua didn't talk much to her and whenever Haseeb would try to she didn't give much response to his questions, she spent her time praying to her Lord. Her numbness would diminish whenever she prayed, her dam would break, and she would cry and cry sharing her every sorrow and miseries to Allah. 

A week passed in a blur and Irtaza sent a driver to take back Zahra to the mansion making a sudden sadness settle in her heart, she didn't want to leave her mother so soon but this thought consoled her that her Allah is with her all the time and she went back to the mansion.

The driver parked the car and Zahra got out, moving inside the residence. She walked towards her room when a maid suddenly stopped her.

"Ma'am where are you going?" She asked.

"To my room"

"That's not your room anymore, its upstairs next to sir's room. Your accessories and clothes are shifted there."

"Upstairs?" She asked in shock.

"Yes, please go there"