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

“Yes, it was because of Raina. It was Raina’s last wish to see you get married to her sister.”

Amaan was shocked by the revelation.

“You always blamed Asmaira for everything. You thought she was taking Raina’s place, but she never. She never did anything that Raina used to do. It was you who were looking for Raina in her. It was you who couldn’t accept the reality and vent your frustration on her.

“Where were you when your son was sick? When your son needed his father? Did you ever think about how a newborn baby survived without his mother? We almost lost him, we lost Kabir, but Asmaira came as a hope. She brought light into Kabir’s life. You didn’t see that, did you?”

Fariya’s words were reverberating in his mind. He was in his room, exhausted by the journey as well as with the revelation. Why did Raina want him to marry Asmaira? Why did Asmaira choose him over her family?. It was too much for him to take, and in frustration, he threw his phone.

He slumped on the couch and closed his eyes in despair.

Ring!

He opened his eyes to his phone ring. He searched and looked in the direction of ringing and saw it lying beneath the dresser. When he was about to grab his phone below the dresser to answer, he noticed something else. He took the phone, and while answering the call, he pulled a diary beneath the dresser.

A paper slipped out of it while he was holding it. The moment he set his eyes on the paper, he was still. How could he not recognize the handwriting? It was Raina’s handwriting. He disconnected the call immediately without letting the other person on call complete and grabbed the letter.

Dear Aashi,

Please don’t tear the letter before you read it. It will be my last letter to you. I am sorry I let you down and left you. Please don’t be mad at me and forgive me. I am already dying, and by the time you get this letter, I will be dead.

I can’t die peacefully knowing my son, Kabir, will be alone. Yes! I named him Kabir. You remember how obsessed I was with the same. Please help me in dying peacefully. Please take care of my Kabir when I am gone.

I can never trust anyone with my baby except you, Aashi. Please, I beg you to take care of my Kabir and love him like his mother.

Please, it is my last wish, please marry Amaan. I know you hate him because of me, but I am leaving behind my two most precious things, Amaan and Kabir.

Please take care of them when I am gone. Please.

Love,

Raina.

The letter slipped from Amaan’s hand. If Fariya’s words were tormenting him, then the letter doomed him. He came out of his trance when there was a knock on his door.

They found out where Asmaira was, and Jamshed was calling him to inform him the same. He quickly drove with Jamshed and Salar, not asking where they were going. His breathing stopped when Jamshed parked the car near the police station.