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

Irtaza stayed in his office, all by himself reminiscing the times he held her close. He felt genuinely guilty for forcing her into marriage, horrendous days he made her go through. He couldn't focus on how to bring her back or make attempts to find her.

In the struggle of wanting to think or trying to contemplate the situation like he always does, he lost the mechanism altogether as he believed he had lost her. The rescue mission was still going on but his sixth sense didn't give him the good news. 

A few more days has passed but no progress. He was failing. Giving up.

Business and mafia was now managed by Shehryaar as he was not in a situation to look after anything. His mind a pure chaos. Unable to see through anything.

Another unholy night fell, Irtaza had another bottle of alcohol in his hand, slow poison as he called it. He stood infront of Zahra's room and was thinking hard whether to step inside or not, whether he would be able to handle it or not.

Slowly, turning the door knob he dragged his feet in. He could see clearly all corners, her memories were everywhere but again just like other days those memories came running into his mind when he had manhandled her, all those scenes as if flashing in front of his eyes.

"I am sorry Zahra so so sorry" Irtaza drawled and that's when tears flowed down his ashamed face.

"For everything. When you rejected me in front of everyone that day, I got so mad. I had to claim you by any means. And when you betrayed me it was like as if you were pulling it in my face that I couldn't have you. I controlled your life to make me feel that I was the one in control. All of my life I had the upper hand of walking away from people and dominating them and not the way around. But with you, I went too far. Nothing can or will justify my reasons but tell me what to do now when you're not here. This is not fair, after all things we went through you can't leave me like this. YOU ACN'T LEAVE ME! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME! DO YOU LISTEN ME?!!" He screamed and gulped all the alocohol down his throttle, his adam apple bobbed.

His eyes shut, sucking in sharp breaths. He swallowed the lump in his throat and opened the windows to his soul again .

He looked from the lonely window, tears still fluttering out, in order to seek some hope, some approval from the stars. He asked the winds about the well- being of his beloved but it blew in direction away from him, just like her.

He went through her stuff believing that amidst them he might find her, might find the comfort only she could provide. But he didn't find solace instead this added to his distress.

He unlocked his phone and opened the gallery. A picture popped up infront him, when she was having dinner, a small smile sprawling on her lips as she looked excitedly down towards her food when he had clicked it. The perfect moment.

Her every smile fuelled the rusty machine that was his heart. How her presence restored his faith in the realm of felicity.

He went back inside the room and laid on the bed, throwing the bottle away harshly which broke into pieces and laid into her bed. It was the room which he had assigned to her before shifting her to his room. Her enchanting fragnance was still there as he closed his eyes, her beautiful brown eyes was the last sight on his mind when he drifted into deep slumber.

The rays of sunlight touched his eye lids and someone's hand on his shoulder brought back his vigilant posture as he immediately sat up.

"Bhai it's me" Dua told him.

"Leave me alone" Irtaza groaned.

"No bhai. I want to talk to you." she told him and he just nodded his head, sitting up as she sat beside him on the bed.

He looked towards Dua but her eyes werre lost somehwere before she began. It was a matter needed to be adressed to be him.

"You know Bhai, from the day I read that letter that Zahra wrote I hated her instantly. I never paid any heed to her part of story, I just considered her the culprit and you innocent. I thought it was a hit below the belt to play with someone's emotions like that. But the day I got to know about her life, how you guys got married, I was shocked to say the least bhai." she stopped and turned her head towards him,  "How can you do that to her? How can you force her into this marriage? how bhai? How? Do you even had an idea how her life was like before marriage? Do you?" 

"Did you have any idea about her life before you married her?"

"Dua, can we talk about this some other day" he told. Whatever it was, it must be increasing his guilt, the guilt in which he was drowning. He came to know about her importance when she had left. 

He was shattered.

His heart was crumbled.

Love indeed is a crazy thing.

"No! You must know. Do you know, She was harassed by her cousin Shoaib for five years. Five damn years!" she told him and he just frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"His cousin, Shoain harassed her every chance he got. And do you know who forced him to do so, more like besseched him to do so, her lover Daniyal. The same man because of whom he played with you. Rather, it was Daniyal who had emotionally blackmailed her to betray you like that, to play with your feelings. It was him. Just imagine her heart broken state bhai. Her lover betrayed her. Her lover made his brother harass her. How would she have felt? How would she have felt when that bastard harassed her?" she completed in a whisper as if giving a thought to her words she said.

"How do you know?"

"She told me everything. She told me all this" Saying this Dua left and shut the door behind her. Even the thought of her brother doing something so evil to a girl like Zahra disgusted her.

Irtaza, on the other was stunned at first. His heart begin to pound heavily in his chest.

What he had done?