Hello!! A surprise update for you loving people🥳...as a compensation for the late update. I hope you'll like it!! 😃
PART 5: TIME TO RETALIATE
BANNER CREDITS- ImmortalLove😊
It was almost time when Zoya reached the bus station. Dilshad was pacing restlessly waiting for her. Seeing her coming towards them, Dilshad sighed in relief but was confused when she saw a victorious smile on her face.
"Where were you Zoya? We were so worried!!" she said lovingly.
"Khala, you will get to know soon." She said with a smirk.
"Okay! Enough of it...let's go Zoya. We need to leave this place as soon as possible.Goodbye aunty!" Humeira said grabbing Zoya's hand. Zoya looked at Asad uncertainly who was visibly troubled by all this chaos. He had come out of his house-arrest after ages and that too to such a noisy place...it was affecting his senses for sure.
Dilshad held her other wrist, "Wait Zoya! Please don't leave like this...I want your help. If I keep Asad with me...they'll come and get him. Then they'll come looking for you and you..."
"Listen Dilshad aunty!! This is enough...I already warned you that let Zoya stay in peace!! And mind it...she's not alone!!" Humeira countered fiercely, cutting Dilshad in between.
"But Humeira, this is really necessary. I deliberately let Sajjan Singh hear my name...so that they'll come looking for me...and in all that they'll never pay heed to look for Zoya. If Asad and Zoya are together...they'll be safe and I could migrate around easily...and even if I get caught, I won't ever reveal their whereabouts!!" Dilshad tried explaining.
"No! You asked Zoya for a favour and she did...she helped bringing this mad man out...now no more favours. You are just ruining her life!! She has nothing to do with him...what do you think, we are fools??? I know...an insane cannot marry...she maybe his wife for the world...because they don't know his mental status. But I know!!! He's mad...his consent means nothing...it was forced. He has no relation with my Zoee...and I remember it still, he hitted her... I won't risk leaving her with him." Humeira spoke with so much rage that Dilshad was taken aback for a moment. Zoya too flinched at the tone of Humi's voice.
"Humeira, try to understand...I am not asking her to live with him permanently...just for few months till all this get subsided. I'll look for a way out. Please!" Dilshad pleaded.
"No, I said it..." Humeira began only to be cut by Zoya.
"Humeira, I think Khala is right. I am leaving this city and I've to go somewhere...so why not where Asad will be. I completely agree with her and Humi, she not only got Asad out but she helped me out too...did you forget that?" Zoya said to Humi in a calm manner.
"But Zoya, how much will you do for them? How will she sort this out?? She hadn't been able to do it in so many years...so how will she do it now?" Humeira demanded.
"Humeira, for now I have no answers... I have always tried planning my life but all in vain. My dreams, my aspirations were ruined...so I will just go with the flow now. No expectations and no demands!! JAHAN KISMAT LE JAYEGI...MAIN WAHAN JAUNGI..."
Humeira agreed seeing her so distressed. Dilshad was relieved that Zoya agreed to her pleas. In all this chaos, no one noticed that Asad was really scared when Dilshad and Humeira were shouting at each other and to save himself the fright, he nestled closer to Zoya and held her hand for comfort. Zoya being engrossed in their fight and her own reasoning over the matter didn't pay heed too.
"Where will we go Khala?" asked Zoya.
"I have arranged everything for you two in a small town near Shimla, called Kasauli. You will go to Agra from here, then Gurgaon and then Shimla, by bus. Then you will get a cab waiting for you at Shimla bus stand which will take you to your destination. I have a small house there...which I purchased when I went there for my job assignment...see how it's helping us here." Dilshad explained the plan to Zoya and she nodded in agreement.
"I am also coming with you!!" Humeira piped in.
"But humi, your job?? You have to be here dear...you can't leave all this just like that..." Zoya tried making Humeira see some sense.
"I am really worried for you Zoya...I can't leave you alone with HIM!!" she said pointing at Asad and he scowled. Zoya glared at Humi for always targeting Asad for everything and she shrugged.
"Dilshad Khala, will you mind if you take Asad with you and settle him down in the bus. I'll come soon after making Humi understand" Dilshad patted her head and motioned through her eyes towards Humi.
As she started moving towards Humeira, she felt a tug at her wrist and that's when both Zoya and Dilshad noticed that Asad was holding her wrist for quite sometime. He muttered, "Evil monster!" Zoya chuckled while Dilshad looked confused at his words.
"I'll come soon Asad...wait for me." Zoya said and Asad let go of her hand obediently.
"Allah! What I am feeling isn't wrong. She is the one who can bring Asad out of that trauma...he has trusted someone and is craving for her presence near him...after so long. I know Allah...she'll bring back my old Asad...she's really an angel...Zoya...you are Asad's angel!!"
"NO!!!" screamed Rashid in anger and frustration. "What the hell are you saying?? How could this happen??" He threw the phone in frustration and growled like a hungry bear.
"What had happened Rashid?" asked Shireen.
"They escaped...Dilshad took him away...that b***h!!" he roared. Shireen came by his side and patted his shoulder, "We'll find them Rashid...first I'll teach that Zoya a lesson!!"
"Do you think she'll be there?? She got a chance...she would have escaped too, by now." Rashid said frustratingly "We've to go there..."
Humeira reluctantly let go of Zoya's hand when it was time for Asya to board the bus. "Will you be able to handle him?" she asked making a strange face at Asad. He tugged at Zoya's wrist which he was holding, again.
"Yes, I will..." she said nodding to her.
"Take care of you both Zoya... I'll call you on the new number I've given you as soon as you reach Shimla" Dilshad advised her.
With emotional goodbyes and hugs, Zoya boarded the bus that will take her away from the city in which she was born...grew up...laughed...cried...played and was married. She was going with her husband but the circumstances didn't let her feel ecstatic...she felt uncertain of what was to come...yet she was determined to face it, together with him...if he was there in her destiny then that was it...she won't breakdown in front of her fate...she'd been strong and she'll be...always!!
Her journey to a new life in KASAULI started with this resolve and Asad by her side...
Rashid and Shireen were puzzled when they saw a large crowd gathered in front of Khan Villa. They looked at each other while getting down of their car and walked towards the people. Seeing them coming, all of them rushed towards them and in few seconds they were surrounded by whole bunch of people shouting and flashes from cameras blinded them...
"MR. RASHID, IS IT TRUE THAT YOU KEPT YOUR SON UNDER HOUSE ARREST FOR YEARS...OUR CHANNEL V-TV HAS RECEIVED EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE AND PROOFS ABOUT THAT!!"
"YOU EVEN TRADED A GIRL BY PAYING 50 LAKHS TO KEEP HER AS A CARETAKER FOR YOUR SON..."
"WHERE IS MR. ASAD??"
"IS YOUR SON INSIDE??"
"WHY DIDN'T HE COME IN FRONT OF THE WORLD EVER?"
"WHAT MADE YOU GET HIM MARRIED SECRETLY?"
"WHO'S ZAINAB?"
All sort of questions were thrown at them and they were too stunned to react. They looked horrified...all their misdeeds flashed in front of them.
"All this is rubbish!! Who told you this?? I'll sue you..." Rashid snarled at them.
"Look Mr. Khan, we aren't talking without proofs. Just switch on the television, all the channels are flashing the footage of your cruelty..." a reporter snapped.
Rashid gushed past them and entered the house. He switched to a news channel from another and another...all of them showing only one breaking news...
"ARREST WARRANT ISSUED AGAINST FAMOUS INDUSTRIALIST RASHID AHMED KHAN FOR ILLEGALLY CONFINING HIS SON FOR YEARS. SOURCE REPORTED THAT HE WAS BRUTALLY TORTURED AND HIS MENTAL STATUS WAS KEPT HIDDEN FROM ALL. HAVE A LOOK AT HIS MEDICAL REPORTS WHICH WE ARE BRINGING EXCLUSIVELY FOR YOU..."
Rashid looked at the television screen without blinking his eyes. He saw Asad's medical certificate, Zainab and Asad's photo, few other snaps of him being given electric shocks and many more of him and Shireen inflicting tortures on Asad. It was too much to digest for him, his legs were shaking by the burden of his crimes and he collapsed down on the hard floor, unable to bear them, while Shireen was now crying openly. News reporter was still stating all the facts related to the case...obviously with some spicing up!!
"A trustworthy source reported that Mr. Asad is Rashid Khan's son from his first wife Zainab...who was claimed to have been eloped with someone. Who knows whether this is the truth or there had been some conspiracy years ago!!"
Shireen sat beside him and sobbed, "Rashid, what will we do now? All this is Dilshad's work...she must be behind all this!! Please do something Rashid!! Rashid...are you listening?? Because of you I am in all this mess...you did everything to Zainab and you kept Asad locked...I don't want to suffer because of you!"
Rashid's head snapped up and he looked at Shireen with red, angry eyes, "ME?? So it was only me?? It was all your plan...you wretched woman!! You trapped me in your love and made me do all this...I am not alone in this and you've to bear all this with me...you got it??"
They could have mutually recriminated each other for a longer duration if not for the police officers who broke their conversation,
"Mr. Rashid Khan, you are under-arrest for illegally locking your son for fourteen years!!"
"We didn't do anything officer!! We aren't going anywhere...you can't arrest me!! Do you know who I am!!" Rashid shouted at the top of his voice.
"Mr. Khan, I know who you are but for law all people are same. We've proofs for the crime that you had done and so you have to come with us. Whatever you want to say...you can say in the lock-up. Constable! Handcuff them..."
Rashid and Shireen kept cursing and wailing but it fell on deaf ears. Media clicked them being handcuffed and dragged to the police jeep.
Dilshad was watching the news channel...her eyes widening with each picture and each accusation hurled on Rashid-Shireen. She smiled to herself, "So that was where you went Zoya!! I can't thank you enough...what I couldn't do in years...she did in two days!! She's a wise girl...shukriya mere maula!! Mere Asad ki zindagi mein uss bacchi ko lane ke liye. Ab main bhi dekhti hoon ki Rashid aur Shireen kab tak bachenge...aaj unke ant (end) ki shuruat hai...theek hi kaha hai kisine...upar wale ki lathi mein awaz nai hoti...now I'll make sure that they pay for each of their sin!!!"
A/N:
Keep this in mind...
1] I don't know much about law and its procedures... I hope I didn't mess it up. Please forgive me for the blunders.
2] don't ask me where did Zoya get all those proofs...because I DON'T KNOW and besides it doesn't matter as long as the justice is delivered.
Let me know your views...and please if you find any mistake, notify it to me!!
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