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

The call was from one of his men whom he has assigned to secretly keep an eye on each member of haveli for their safety.

"Yes?" He asked on the call. His voice was stoic and dominant.

The person on the other side answered making him cuss under his tongue.

"Fuck. If anything happened to them I will slit your throat" he barked.

The man answered again.

"I want those bastards alive. Get them to the nearest warehouse. I will be seeing them in a day or two." Before the other person could answer he hung up the call and immediately grabbed Zahra's wrist, rapidly dragging her out of the restaurant towards the parking lot.

On reaching there, they saw Haseeb standing out of the car frantically making calls to someone. Irtaza left Zahra's wrist and moved towards him and grabbed him by the collar.

"Where the fuck are Dua and Haya?" He gritted. Zahra's mouth hung open while Haseeb looked as if he has seen a ghost. Zahra ran towards them to stop Irtaza. And the very next moment they both saw very troublesome Dua and Haya running in from the restaurant gate towards the car.

They breathlessly reached toward the three of them as they have been running for so long.

"Get into the car all of you and drive straight to haveli as soon as possible. I will see you all in the evening." He ordered. His face told that he already knew what has happened and they all could feel the threat behind his last sentence.

All of them got back into the car while Irtaza canceled all his meetings and went somewhere.
............

Haseeb was storming the car on the route berserkly. While Dua and Haya continued to tell about the incident that happened to them.

"...we already had a hunch feeling someone was following us but we ignored it. We thought that we are being paranoid. And then I don't know what happened and how it happened the very next turn we took, two to three men came from somewhere and lunged at us locking our arms in the process. Their faces were covered with masks and one of them was their boss who was frantically ordering them to place the clothes on our faces. He was extremely fearful of something, I don't know what but he kept on saying, 'do it quickly before he gets here, he will kill us, place the clothe.' We continuously were kicking our legs in the air to protect ourselves but they had tightly locked us and muffled our screams with their hands. Then they placed clothing on our faces, we were about to inhale the chloroform before some men came, and it all happened in a blur, those men came and begin to beat us whilst we both ran and ran till we reach the restaurant. I don't know what happened behind. I don't know who were they. I don't know...." Haya finished her story.

"Thank God they couldn't kidnap us otherwise I don't know what would have happened to us by now," Haya said as if in a trance. The incident has mentally disturbed her so much.

"God forbid Haya. Shut up. Nothing happened to us and nothing could ever happen to us because all of these gangsters know who we are. We are the sisters of the most powerful mafia don in the whole of Asia. They cannot even harm a hair of our head. Get this thing into your mind. And all of you listen no one will be telling anything to anyone in the haveli. It's up to Irtaza Bhai how he will deal with the situation," Dua proclaimed, truly meaning what she said. She knew if even they got kidnapped no one could do anything to them after knowing their identity.

Mentally, she was anxious for Zahra. She went against her brother's order and took Zahra along with her. But if Zahra hadn't come with them then the plan would have been canceled and she didn't want that. She wanted Zahra to breathe freely out of the haveli and create some memories with her cousins but she had no idea the situation would turn out like that. She knows Irtaza will be too harsh with Zahra for disobeying her and she doesn't know how to stop him.

On the other hand, Haseeb was now extremely paranoid. He was afraid of what today's evening will be held for him. His heartbeat was faster and his hands shivered a little bit as he continued to drive the car. He still remembers what his elder brother, Saif has to face failure in his endeavor to protect Haya. And today both of them got nearly kidnapped, furthermore, his hippocampus acted like super stupid shit and forgot all the instructions Irtaza gave to all of them. He was doomed. He tried to brush off all the thoughts but he knew he can't stop the inevitable.

Whilst Zahra's legs and hands were shaking nonstop. She felt nauseatic. She considered herself the culprit of today's incident. If she had listened to Irtaza, nothing like this would have happened. Moreover, he also caught her in the restaurant. She was done for. Every single day was tormenting her mentally and physically. Today's evening will be no good for her and she was already afraid to face the rest of the day.

They reached the haveli at last. No dialogues were exchanged as the atmosphere was thick and everyone went back to their rooms and slept as if there was no tomorrow. By evening, all four of them were wakened up by maids and servants then ushered to the dining table where all the family members were waiting for them.

On reaching the dining table, they found everyone seated there except Irtaza and their grandfather. They move towards their respective chairs and sat over them. Zahra's legs felt heavy moving towards the chair next to Irtaza. She do not want to be anywhere around him but everyone was tying her to him. The feeling of being caged again woke up inside her choking her throat with tears but she tried her best to brush it off.

Soon their dada came along with Irtaza and they both sat in their places. Zahra's nerves were on high alert when he dragged his chair and sat on it. Their grandfather has a deep frown marred on his features like he was disturbed over something.