Let me Hate you by Anjaani (the reading list .TXT) 📗

It was a fact that although she loathed him, she still married him so that she could take care of Kabir in Raina's absence.

“Abbu, Amaan is a good man. Please once talk to him.” Raina spoke.

“What sort of a good man will be with a girl alone in her room?” 

Ehsan was furious when he saw his daughter with Amaan in her room. He was beating him mercilessly, but Raina stopped him. Amaan did not retaliate as this will make things more difficult for him and Raina. He wanted to marry Raina, but before proposing to Raina, Ehsan had already thrown him out of the house.

Raina wanted to tell her father that it was all a misunderstanding as it was her birthday and Amaan only wanted to see her first at midnight. It was her 22nd birthday, and he wanted to surprise her with a marriage proposal. He was a man with high morals and never misbehaved. 

However, judging by the scene, it looked more like Amaan had bad intentions before Raina could stabilize the situation her father gave his ultimatum. 

“Your mother wanted to talk to you tomorrow, but now I see no point in delaying. We have set your marriage with Adil's son Azeem, and they are coming next week to see you.”

“What? How? ... Without asking my consent, how can you arrange my marriage?” Raina shrieked. She never backed down in voicing her opinion, even to her parents.

“Behave yourself, Raina,” this time Suraiya warned her daughter.

“No, let her talk, Suraiya, this is what that rich brat had taught her,” Ehsan told while pulling Suraiya back.

“I am not like Asmaira, Ammi. Who blindly follow whatever you tell her. You know I make my own decisions. I will only marry Amaan, and nobody can force me, not even my parents”. Raina said confidently.

“What,” Ehsan and Suraiya said in unison. Her daughter's outrage deeply hurt Suraiya. She subconsciously moved back and was about to fall, but Ehsan caught her. 

“Our daughter has grown up, Suraiya, and can make her own decisions. Why are you sad?” Ehsan said sorrowfully.

He was not an orthodox man, he believed in giving his children freedom, but he never thought his daughter would argue with him for a stranger. His love for his daughter was being compared with a stranger she hardly knew. 

“Raina, I know boys like him belong to a rich family. They only use girls and then dispose of them.” Ehsan tried to reason with his daughter.

“Abbu, please trust me. He is not like that. He loves me and will never do that. In fact, he wants to marry me. That is what he was telling me when you saw us and misunderstood.” Raina tried persuading Ehsan but in vain.

“I have seen the world more than you, I have seen these so-called rich brat promising marriage and ran away. I can't let you spoil your life”. Ehsan said sternly.

“I am sorry, Abbu, I will not leave Amaan.”

“Since you want to take your own decision, then you have to choose between your family and him.” This time Ehsan spoke strongly.

Asmaira, who was silently listening to her father and sister's argument, could not believe her father's words. What was more shocking was her sister's answer.

“I am sorry, Abbu, I will not leave him.”

Taken aback, Ehsan took some time to realize and said slowly, “Very well, you can stay here for tonight and leave the house by morning.”

“Ehsan!”

“Abbu!”

Suraiya and Asmaira said in unison.

Asmaira and Hassan, her brother, tried to persuade Raina, who seemed to turn deaf throughout the night. She was sad to leave her family, but she knew her father's view about Amaan would not change, and she cannot marry anyone except Amaan. Asmaira's pleadings were breaking her heart, and she couldn't see her crying.

‘Who will look after you, Asmaira after me?’ Raina cried, pretending to sleep, not to look at the Asmaira pleading face.

When morning came, Ehsan still had hoped with his daughter; however, it soon shattered when he saw Amaan outside the house.

‘He is more important to you than your father, Raina.’ Ehsan thought.

He went to Raina's room and said, “Once you step out of the house, never come back.” Without waiting for her reply, he left and never came to see his daughter.

Not wanting to see Asmaira's sorrowful face or hurt her more, Raina called Amaan in the early morning and left without meeting her or her brother Hassan. However, Suraiya knows her daughter well. She was waiting for her in the living room. At that moment, nobody spoke anything, just kept looking at each other and crying. Nobody knows how much time went by; they were back to their senses when Amaan called Raina.  With that, Raina left with Amaan.

When Asmaira woke up, she could feel something was missing. She immediately went to her sister's room and found a note, "I will miss you.”

Asmaira was heartbroken; she still couldn't believe her sister, her idol, her savior who promised to be there with her left, left her and her family for a guy she knew only for a few months.

“Amaan, I wish you never existed in the world, you took away my everything, and I wish one day God takes away your everything,” she cried and cursed Amaan every day.