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

'Bhai will kill me if he came to know that I had eaten 5 kgs of loaded fries, while he's trying his best to make me fit' Haseeb had cried but all of his cousins at last forced him to participate in the competition.

"6 fucking kgs are not little Zahra." Irtaza asserted.

"Please forgive him na this time. Next time you wont be getting any complain. We all forced him to eat those fries. If you aint gonna listen then-"

"Ok fine Zahra. I wont 'say' anything to him" Irtaza said and she sighed in relief, thinking that she had saved Haseeb from Irtaza's wrath.

But he said that he wont 'say' anything to him, rather he would make him 'do' a lot of exercise.

Soon the food was served and as soon  it was served, she didnt look neither left nor right, abruptly took her spoon and dived herself into the bowl of chinese chicken noodles, which made Irtaza laugh.

"What?" She asked, puĺling her head up and looking towards him. Some noodles oozing out of her fully filled mouth.

"Eat slowly. Its all yours." He softly said, while holding the tissue paper and cleaning the sauce from her nose, before teasing the bridge of her nose, with back of his forefinger.

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 quality time with her today.

Zahra was about to leave the car when he suddenly held her hand and jerked her back so that her lips collided with hers.

And he took her lips in a fervent kiss making her breathless.

He pulled away breathing heavily and carassed her cheeks, looking deeply into her eyes.

"Never break my trust on you, Zahra." His voice soft

But the sudden dilation of her brown pupils didnt go unnoticed by him, followed by a fearful expression on her face.

A lie!

He figured it out from her facial expressions, making him confused.
............

Zahra left the car and on reaching her room, she was a mess within seconds as she begin to cry.

She didnt want Irtaza to turst her. She wanted to scream it on his face that she'll soon be running away. Her heart was clenching with guilt and remorse.

She called Daniyal and confronted her the whole situation, who reveled in joy and told her that its a very good thing that he had begun to trust her. And she should carry on to put up a charade.

But all of this didn't settle well with her.

She was drowning in guilt.

But she cant leave Daniyal.
............

The whole week passed. She had a lot of fun with her cousins specially when all of them were having a water fight in the lawn and from somewhere Irtaza popped up, eyeing Haseeb out dangerously, making his heart stop.

"Bhai I havent done anything" Haseeb had said as soon Irtaza grabbed his collar.

"Ok I see then I've eaten 5 fucking kgs of loaded french fries." Irtaza gritted and Haseeb's face paled.

Irtaza didnt like his non-serious attitude. He wanted him to grow up and to stop acting like a child. His acts were really childish while Irtaza was so damn serious.

"Who told you this?" He had asked with widened eyes.

"I've my resources" he had answered and for a millisecond his eyes flashed to Zahra who held a water baloon in her hands with her mouth hung open.

And after that he was taken somewhere by Irtaza and then all of them had laughed so hard, rolling on the floor to get over the funny predicament of Haseeb. They continued to add on situations while making Haseeb's fun and there jaws were literally hurting by the end.

That day was really fun.

During the whole week Zahra was in contact with Daniyal who was continuously forcing her and emotionally blackmailing her to put up a facade infront of Irtaza and she did, with a heavy heart.

She used to cry every night. She had no idea why her tears kept flowing down her eyes. Her heart used to become suddenly heavy, constricting her throat as a sudden anxiety and depression encages her, whenever she used to think about Irtaza.

The university went fine as well. Sometimes Irtaza used to pick her up and then they both would go for her horse riding sessions.

A week passed in a blur and today was the 40th of her father. She still couldn't get over the fact that her father is no more and 40 days had already passed since his death.

The haveli's inhabitants wore a mourning face today as there hearts deeply grieved with the death of there member. Many people came and gave there condolences to them. And it was evening already when all of the guests left.

After the small yet big gathering of the people, for conveying rewards to the deceased, concluded, there grandfather, Shabbir Haider Syed, went into his room and locked himself in.

He was alone, sitting on the chair, indulge in the thoughts of Mujtaba. He learnt his lesson that very day when Irtaza's mother was caught with a man.