The Letters - Mahmood ul Hassan (read me a book .txt) 📗

It was getting late, sun was almost down, and shadows were faded away. But the street lights were
bright enough to give an orange touch to almost everything that was around. Lillia was looking out of the
window, with her blank eyes, which were visible in the relection of window's glass. Her thoughts still
couldn't escape the words she read in first letter, until, a strong hand held her shoulder firmly.
"hey, its just me. You alright?" Ben said in a gentle tone, as gentle as he could be, as he realized that he
gave Lillia a mini heart attack.
"Everything will be alright, cops are investigating, we have got the camera installed on a front door,
whoever he is, I'm sure he will get caught." Ben said to make her feel better.
"I hope he will." Lillia said.
"What did Janice said? about the cop?" Ben asked.
"She was a little mad at me but didn't really say something about it." Lillia said.
"How about we go out tonight?" Ben said.
"What if he is out there stalking us?" Lillia said.
"I am with you Lillia. No one can do no harm to you, I promise." Ben said.
Lillia wrapped her arms around Ben, the only secure place she could find.

"This is a good place, I am sure you will like it." Ben said as he parked the car in front of a restuarant.
There were few cars parked around and the whole place was illuminated. Ben held her hand as they
stepped in, a comforting smile appeard on the face of Lillia.
"What if we order something that we did on our first date?" Ben said with his charming smile.
"Ben, that was long long time ago." Lillia was still smiling.
"But I still remember it." Ben said.
Lillia didn't say anything but kept looking in his eyes but then she said:

"I'm so lucky to have you in my life, thanks a lot for everything Ben." Lillia said as the tear touched the
bay of her eyes.
"Okay, no more tears you lil girl." Ben knew how to make her feel good.
"I'm a big girllll." Lillia said as her brows drew closer, but with a smiling face. It made her forget about
past two days, she was living the moment. She missed this loving and caring side of Ben, but at that
moment, it was right there, right infront of her. Soothing music and the environment didn't make her
realize how the time passed. "Another best night of my life Ben,
just because of you." Lillia said as she looked at him but he kept his eyes on the road.

It was almost past midnight, screams of silence were dominating every other sound. But then some
sound woke her up.
"Ben.." She unintensionally said, before she could even open up her eyes. The whole room was dark
enough to see something, but there was some light of a street street passing through the window. But
then her heart skipped a beat when she saw someone standing next to the door, she tried to turn on the
lamp on, but it wasn't working.
"Lillia.." His voice sounded a lil fimiliar but the accent wasn't. She was sure that she heard her name from
this voice for the first time.
"I told you we will meet, and here we are." Lillia wanted to scream, but she felt like something wasn't
letting her.
"I told you, you can't run, and you still can't."

He said as he took steps towards her.
Lillia was thinking of ways to get out of the room but then, a sharp blade of dagger, reflecting some light,
caught her eyes. That man was standing right in front of the window, light was revealing his appearance
but his face was still in the dark. He was in a British army mess uniform, from 1800s. A waist length,
open-fronted, red, short jacket with blue trousers.
Lillia reached for the lamp, grabbed it tightly and tried to get off of the bed but before she could take the
second step, a loud slap as a clap stung her face which pretty much threw her back to bed. It made her
unconscious for few seconds but then she caught her senses when she realized that her nose was
bleeding.
"Don't even think about it Lillia.." He said and went closer to her face.
She forgot to breath when she saw his face, but couldn't utter a word because his hand clutched her
neck hard enough to leave a mark. She tried to struggle but his hand was stronger than she could
imagine, she tried to do whatever she could but it wasn't of any help so she finally gave up struggling ,
her mind was diving into the darkness as she started closing her eyes.
But before could pass out, she felt his hand losing its grip. He fell on the other side of the bed with his
hand on his head. Janice was standing right behind him with an iron rod, her arms were shaking.
"Run!!!" Janice almost screamed.
Janice moved towards the door. Tears were rolling down from Lillia's cheeks, she stumbled while
reaching the door but before she could, he grabbed her hand and placed the dagger on her neck and a
smile appeared on a thin line between his lips as he looked at Janice.
"Take one more step, and i will slit her throat in a split-second" He said.
"Why are you doing this??" Lillia almost cried.
"Because you deserve this." He said.
"Luke, do you think Lt. Hugh told you the truth?" Janice said.
"Luke??" Lillia said while looking at Janice.
"Why would he lie to me and who are you?" He asked.
"I'm his wife, I know him more than anyone. I know what kind of person he is. He is interested in Lillia, so
he wants you to divorce her. That is why he lied to you." Janice said.
"But he showed me a letter that was written by her, by Lillia. I know how she writes." He said while
tightening his grip.
"He knows that too. Because he was the one to give you her letters. So he knows how she writes. He
wrote the letter and made you think that she is cheating on you. So that he can make you do whatever
he wants. He lied to you. You know how much Lillia loves you, she can't do that to you. She always talks
to me about you, about how much you both love each other, she can't even think about cheating on you.
Lt. Hugh isn't your friend Luke." He was unintentionally losing his grip as he was listening to Janice. Lillia
knew that this is her only chance so she struck him with a hard elbow right below his chest, pushed him
back and ran towards Janice. In the process, Janice threw the iron rod towards him, which hit him on the
leg and knocked him down.
They ran out of the room and closed the door, while the sirens of police cars dominated the environment.
And finally they came out of the house. Lillia had no idea why Ben did that, she was trying to stop her
tears, but wasn't successful.
"He is still up there." Janice said, as she saw cops.
"I will explain you everything." Janice realized that Lillia had a lot of questions.

Sun was shinning at its fullest, and the sky was clearer than ever before. Everything was new to Lillia,
her whole world went upside down last night. She was staring at the road with her blank eyes as the car

was cutting through air.
"That day when I came out of Ben's study, I wanted to tell you but Ben came. I was just looking around
when there was an open book on the desk, my eyes caught this name "Luke Palmer". So I read it,
everything was just like the way we read in letter. For a moment I thought Ben is just playing some kind
of sick joke but still I read to know what happens next, so in next few pages, Lt. Luke Palmer kills his
wife. Which was exactly what Ben tried to do. I thought if its real, he will kill you. So when you came back
that night, I was in your house, to know what is he gonna do. Then around midnight, I saw him coming
out of the study in the dress which was used was Bristish army, that was when I called
911. Lillia He
has Dissociative identity disorder. He wasn't him when it happened. He was obsessed with the character
of Lt. Luke Palmer. So, please don't blame him for anything. Go, meet him." Janice said as she parked
the car in front of an asylum.
He was on the bed, with his eyes closed. Lillia wiped the tear, that was on her cheek, with a finger and
went into the room. His eyes were still closed until Lillia held his hand, it was warmer than before. He
tried to open his eyes.
"Hey, how you feeling now?" Lillia asked and tried to smile.
"What happened? My head hurts." Ben pretty much whispered.
"Nothing love, you just had an accident, you will be alright." Lillia said and hugged him, as he tried to get
up, the pillow slid a little away, and there was a book under it.

Publication Date: 01-31-2018

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