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

Soon the party was over and everyone went back to their respective rooms. Zahra on reaching her room immediately called Daniyal and explained her situation to him.

"Daniyal I can't do it anymore. He is being so nice to me! Please find another way to get me out of this situation! My conscience is eating me! Daniyal I can't betray him! It's hurting my feelings. Please Daniyal, I don't want him to trust me! I don't want him to think that I've accepted this relationship! I can't put up a facade anymore!! It's enough for me! I don't want to play games with him anymore!" She explained in her troublesome voice.

"Listen Zahra do you want me?"

"Yes I want you but not through this way when I've to hurt someone in the process. Can't we simply run away?"

"Look you're not doing nothing wrong-"

"Then why my conscience is eating me?"

"Only because you have a pure heart that's why you're feeling guilty for that monster who forced you into this relation. We've no other way other than this Zahra. My plan is perfect. Just follow whatever I say. You're not doing anything wrong. Gain his trust, that's it." He again manipulated her mind.

"Daniyal it will be so low of me."

"Are you mad Zahra? Had he for once, just once said you sorry for what he did to you? Then why you're feeling guilty because of him?"

"Because he is he and I am me."

"Zahra, you're free to leave me if you're so hell-bent on thinking that you're backstabbing him. You're doing nothing wrong, Zahra. I'm saying it to you for the last time."

"You're not understanding me Daniyal. You're not understanding me." She said and hung up the call.

She changed her clothes and washed her face before going to bed. Her heart was still heavy because the sole love of her love was unable to understand her emotional state. She was feeling so cheap and low but Daniyal didn't leave any other option for her other than following whatever he says.

She closed her eyes as a deep slumber engulfed her.

She didn't pray tonight as well.

Half of the night passed. The cold breeze swayed through the air as the moonlight peeked through the window of her room. Her wheatish skin basked under the illuminating light. Everyone was sleeping soundly as some corridors of haveli echoed with the snorting sounds of its inhabitants.

He entered her room and his eyes fell on her sleeping form. His exhaustion disappeared as soon his grey weary eyes met her angelic face which basked under the moonlight making the moonlight appear more luminous for him.

He slowly closed the door behind without making any sound and moved towards her fragile frame. He squatted down so his face was against her sleeping face. His smoldering eyes traced her every feature, from her lips to her eyes. She was indeed the epitome of beauty and innocence for her.

"My heart only wants to trust you, believe in you, cherish you, and love you, Zahra. It's just you senorita. I don't know what's so special about you. It makes me happy when I call you are just mine. It makes me happy when I think that you know, you're just mine. You're mine." He whispered, "Since a decade I had been after you, each and every men of mine have testified your purity. This purity, Zahra, makes me want to have more of you. All of you. From your head to toe. I've never uttered these words to anyone, I've saved these three words just for you, my Zahra. My day and night. My life, my death, I love you. I love you with my entire being. With my whole heart. I just want you and you. never betray me. My heart won't be able to sustain such a load," he uttered and placed a kiss on her forehead waking her up in the progress.

Zahra's eyes widened as she gawked at him. Her mind was groggy as her eyes stared directly into his.

"Wake up Zahra. I've to show you something." He commanded whilst standing up.

Zahra continued to stare at her as her brain was still half slept and she was confused that whether he is there or not.

"Come on. Wake up." He hushed and it was confirmed to her that yes he was standing there. She instantly sat up and caught her dupatta while draping it over her shoulders, making him smile.

He always liked her modesty.

"Ap yaha...kia kar...rahay hein?" She asked meekly.

Her tone always turned low and meek whenever he was around.

(What are....you doing...here?)

"You'll get to know. Now come on stand up."

She stood up and hold her sweater before wearing it and following him to the backside of the haveli. His back, facing her as he continued walking without looking behind, knowing that Zahra was following him.

She suddenly felt a Deja Vu. The time, atmosphere everything was similar to that day when he married her. Her brain began to recall every memory of that day when he forcefully took her to that desolated place and married her against her will.

His raged grey eyes suddenly flashed in front of her making her breathe fast as she took one more step toward him.

The sharp sound of that slap resonated in her ear, making her ears go numb.

Goosebumps washed over her back recalling how ruthlessly he slammed her body on the wall.

She felt her throat getting constricted as someone is choking it in the same way he choked her throat that day.

Danger bells begin to sound in her mind. She thought that he was taking her somewhere to punish her for something and she stopped dead in her tracks. The memories of that day flooded into her mind

'Maybe he came to know about Daniyal'

This thought was the last nail in the coffin as she started to run in the opposite direction like a maniac. She didn't know what got in her but she did what she thought was the best at the moment.

She didn't want to face his wrath when he had already come to know about Daniyal.