Chapter 4

Zoya's heart has been upheaval as she has never expected this sort of behavior from her love, her husband Haider for another girl who is supposed to be a step-sister.

He used that word, "keep", for his own mother-like lady and behaved indecently. 

Zoya has never been okay with the sort of behavior of a man towards women. For her, it was indecency, insolence, and showing your own petty thought process.

Thinking the same, she entered the kitchen and in thoughts of last night, she started chopping onion over the chopper board.

 The knife was finely chopping the onions when she asked Dilshad who was cooking dal fry, "Why don't you get rid of all this? After all, it is all unbearable." 

The tears were in her eyes, when she looked towards Dilshad, who said with a smile, "What do you think, we don't want to run from all this? We want to but can't"

Zoya again looked at her, "why can't you? You have such a beautiful daughter, just like my sister, for her you can run"

Dilshad pressed her lips in a lame smile, "Why don't you run from here Zoya, all you to aren't getting anything." 

"I can't. I am the daughter-in-law of this house, just married. How can I?", Zoya frowned and showed her helplessness.

Dilshad said, "what do you think you are only helpless?"

"What is your helplessness? I mean you have an elder son too, he can make you independent", Zoya raised a logical question.

Dilshad smiled wide when Zoya winced in pain, "ah!", She saw her finger has been bruised, cut with a knife.

Dilshad took Zoya's hand and kept it under the tap water, "Zoya! The house is like onion, jitni kartein utarogi ek parat fir aayegi. Aur aansuon ke bina utarna to impossible hai na!"

Zoya looked with unease towards Dilshad, shocked by what she has said. Zoya wrapped her finger with a towel to take an exit.

"Aur shayad haath mein khoon bhi lag jae. So don't please.", Dilshad stopped her when she was in her tracks.

Listening this, Zoya left while gulping the fresh lump, "ab hath ansu aaye ya khoon, I will know what it is? After all it is hell to live a life here with a riddle"

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Zoya was bandaging her finger, when Asad came near to her, "shall I ?"

"That's fine, nothing big", replied she with a smile.

He let out a sigh, "Don't get afraid, I am a doctor"

She sarcastically said, "oops! The doctor who cannot secure his mum and sister"

"You can laugh because I also have my constraints", he smiled back and grabbed a chair for himself.

She took a deep breath, "I am done because I don't need any doctor for a finger bruise"

"Actually, this was just an excuse. I wanted to thank you for saving my sister, Najma from Haider", Asad looked down.

Zoya had tears in her eyes which she wiped with the back of her palm, "you don't need to be. I didn't do anything it was you who saved her"

"Actually, she is like my daughter, I have brought her up. She was simply 5 months old when..." Before he could complete and he stopped himself as something inside him held him back.

She scrunched her brow, "when?"

"Nothing. I have some work to do", he left when she called from the back, "I know you don't want to share because of the family."

She continued herself, "can we become friends?", And offer her hand forward.

"Please ma'am, don't increase your problems", he said while leaving.

Zoya's smile shrunk when he said that and she remained in the thought, "Aisa bhi kya hai?"

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In the night, when Haider came she removed his jacket and wasn't in a mood to talk.

"Hey love please pardon me now", Haider tilted her chin up with a finger. She felt uneasy and removing his finger from her chin turned, "Haider please don't be so casual as nothing happened"

Haider rolled his eyes, "aisa kuch jyada bhi nahi hua hai, she, that Najma deserves that, is ghar me rehne ki saza"

"Haider, she is your sister for God's sake", she screamed over him.

He immediately held her hair tight, "why are you so jealous of her? Is she young?"

She immediately slapped him tight in tears, "don't you repeat this behavior with any woman or I will...."

She stopped in between when he pinned her to the wall, "what will you do dammit?"

Everyone came running towards the room, when Haider threw a flower vase at Zoya and she screamed out, "Please help!"

[beta reading was done by user LizzieBennett]

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