Possession by Laila Ali (young adult books to read .txt) 📗

"Amman" said Irtaza and looked between Zahra and Daniyal to which he nodded in return as the third in command knew his boss too well. Although Irtaza didn't want to leave Zahra there by herself, that call needed to be attend.

"Zahra" Daniyal said again, trying to coax her.

"For God's sake Daniyal! For God's sake! Stop! top! You still are persistent in feeding me lies after lies. I know everything now. Everything! Tell me Why? Just why? Why you did this? What wrong did my Baba or me ever do to you? Do you have any shame, any ounce of humanity left in you or you killed this long ago just like my father" Zahra snapped at him, her jaw clenching, her nostrils mustering up with fury.

"You claimed to love me Daniyal! You claimed to love me! Dammit! You couldn't even stop your family from doing that gunah e kabeera?!"

"Zahra how can you doubt me? You fucking trust Irtaza and not me!' beamed Daniyal .

"Fine then. Keep it aside. You asked your brother to harass me? Really Daniyal? how can you stoop so low?" her frowned deepened with every passing second as anger swelled her heart.

At this he couldn't answer her. His lips pasted with each other but still he tried and opened his mouth again to beam some more lies.

"Zahra! No! that's not the way you're taking it as. My intentions were clear"

"Stop it! Enough with your disgusting lies! They can't fool me anymore. God! How can I be this ignorant? I betrayed Irataza for you, made him believe that I have accepted this marriage and then played with his heart like some slut. Lied to my mother, lied to myself that you were the one Allah has sent for me.Suffered every harassment inflicted upon me thinking it was my fault. But now I know! And I hate you! More than I ever loved you! You mean nothing for me now! You are dead to me!" Her voice reaching octaves high, contrasting with turmoil of emotions she felt at the moment. 

"Zahra, no. You're so precious to me. I love you God Dammit! I love you, your beauty is the most alluring thing about you. I love you! I love you!" He said like a maniac struggling against the ropes as if trying to get her.

"Beauty? So that was the standard of your love? You fell for my beauty? But I thought you fell for my heart. Your love is fake. This is not love. This is obsession, pure obsession. You don't love me."

"So that means you don't love me anymore?"

"No. After what you did to me, my family, my baba, never"

"Zah-"

"Daniyal enough, you have done enough, we have done enough' spoke Shoaib who was immersed in contemplating the fruits of his and his brother's own doings.

"Shut the fuck up Shoaib," he said and then turned his attention towards Zahra. "Are you sure that you don't love me anymore?" he questioned, his mind working fast.

"No" she shook her head, "No"

And then he suddenly remembered something.

Flashback

His head was dangling in air, sweat popping down his forehead, eyes covered with a black blindfold and hands chained to the chair. The only sound he could hear was of the drops of water falling down a a pipe, landing into the small puddle, which appeared quite magnified to his ears when he heard footsteps approaching him and that made adrenaline course through his veins, on thinking that devil might be back.

The person approached him, removing the blindfold from his eyes. His eyes squinted when the sudden light rays made contact with his eyes. He waited for some moments for his eyes to adjust to the light when he opened them widely and made contact with that man's eyes, who was masked. Only his choclaty brown eyes were peeking from the balaclava which he wore.

He didn't say anything and then begin to unchain his one arm giving Daniyal a hope that he is going to free him when suddenly he replaced the chain with rope. Slowly he treated all his locked limbs the same way, one by one, replacing the rope with chain, deliberately keeping the knots loose and easy to break, before he got up, he took out a gun tucked in his waist and then fitted it in Daniyal's left shoe.

He was left confused, as a frown marred his features. As if sensing his thoughts, the man got up and retrieved a note from his pocket, pulling it in front  his eyes, which said,

 'KILL HIM. HE'LL BE COMING HERE SOON, TO FINISH YOU'

And Daniyal got the message. He was more than ready to kill him. When the person blindfolded him again and went back. As a playful smirk danced on his features.

'You're done Irtaza' he thought

Flashback ends

As this thought hit his mind, he begin engage Zahra in conversation and tried to reach the gun. He moved uncontrollably in his chair, yelling and expressing his obsession with Zahra which he confused as his love, which he must win at any cost. He felt the ropes loosening and his left hand could move freely .

"You can't leave me like this" Daniyal roared, getting a hold of the gun and finally successful in breaking off from ropes

Zahra who was overwhelmed and Amman with his eyes on Zahra didn't notice Daniyal's change of positions .

"You love me! Say it! Say it! otherwise I will fucking pull the fucking trigger!" screamed Daniyal aiming at Zahra

Zahra was dazed. She couldn't comprehend anything but she wasn't afraid either. Maybe because when you fall apart and have to pick up the pieces of yourself strangely you become more solid. This was Zahra's frame of mind at the moment.

She exhaled hardly.

"I won't" she stated.

"I ask for the last time Zahra do you love me or not?" his voice dropping octaves down and she knew how damn serious he was.

"My answer is the same" she maintained that composure, not wavering down, staring him straight at his eyes, when fro peripheral view he saw Irtaza's gun placed on the table.