~Flashback~
The dream felt too real, as if it was happening for real, as if Zoya was actually gone. I shook my head and tried to clear out all the negative thoughts from my mind. I looked towards the emergency room it was still locked which meant Zoya was still being operated. I looked up and silently prayed for her.
She was the only girl I'd ever loved I couldn't let her go without even knowing that.
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Chapter - 8
~Zoya~
"Appi! You don't have to go to Istanbul right now! I mean c'mon you and Jiju got married last month and you're already going for a mission!" I said and huffed. Zeenat Appi turned around and looked at me.
"Zoya you don't really understand the importance of completing our missions for us CBI officers, I mean look at Abbu he went for a mission just after the day he got married." She said and continued packing.
"Appi you won't even be here for my graduation! I'm graduating from hell called High School and you won't be even there for the ceremony." I said and wiped a stray tear off my cheek.
"Zoya whether I'm there for the ceremony or not you should know that I'll always be there for you not physically but in my prayers there will always be your name." She said and kissed my forehead and I hugged her tightly.
Had I known that it was the last day I'll be seeing her beautiful face I'd never let her leave.
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"Easy Miss Farooqi you're still not well rested." A nurse said and made me lie down back on the bed. Wait a second, nurse? I'm in a hospital? And then all the past events came rushing taking Najma from her college, the gun shot, and Asad...
"Mr. Khan has been waiting since long for you to gain consciousness he did not even leave the hospital you know Miss Farooqi? He must love you a lot." She said and smiled at me.
So Asad had been here since so long? He'd been waiting for me to gain my consciousness? And here was I thinking of him to be a heartless monster. Tears pricked the back of eyelids, I closed my eyes to control them and when I opened my eyes there standing infront of me was Asad with his hands in his pocket and looking anywhere but at me.
"You waited for the whole night?" I asked him.
"Yes, I thought it's better if I stayed till you gain consciousness." He spoke stiffly still not looking at me.
"And why would you that?" I asked him playing his own words. He finally looked at me his eyes full of pain and love, mirroring my own. Then suddenly he was by my side and he took my hand in his large warm hand.
"Zoya...I was so scared! I thought that you're gone you know? I could not sleep the whole night wondering if you were going to make it or not." He spoke softly and his voice choked at the end.
"Do you seriously think you'll get rid of me so soon?" I asked him mischievously and he chuckled.
"Zoya, there is something I need to tell you...Zoya I lo..." And he was cut off mid-sentence.
"What are you doing here Mr. Khan? And holding hands with officer Farroqi?" Said a very visibly angry Mrityunjay.
"The same question could be asked to you too, Mrityunjay." Asad said calmly. Mrityunjay looked ready to pounce and Asad looked ready to rip his head off. I could not witness another bloodbath specially over here and between these two.
"Mrityunjay, Asad had brought me here when I was shot so he was every right to be here." I said and Mrityunjay gave me a disbelieving look and Asad looked smugly and triumphantly at Mrityunjay.
Boys. I shook my head.
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~Asad~
I was damn angry when Mrityunjay so rudely interrupted my confession! I was this close, this close in expressing my feelings to Zoya! But that ferret he had to interrupt at that particular moment. But what stopped me from ripping his head off was Zoya taking my side after what all misunderstandings we'd gone through this gesture of her's was overwhelming.
Just to add fuel to the fire I kissed Zoya's forehead before leaving the hospital leaving a very shocked and surprised Mrityunjay behind me, I smiled smugly.
I reached home and was welcomed by Ammi, if looks could kill I'd already be dead.
"Where were you the whole night, Asad?" She asked stiffly while her eyes shot daggers.
"Ammi I was..." I was cut off mid-sentence yet again.
"Don't you dare lie to me Asad! You were at the hospital the whole night? the whole damn night? Looking after a girl whose been sent to kill you? Whose father killed your father?" She shouted at me her eyes rimmed with red.
"Her father killed Abbu..?" I asked her almost in a whisper, Ammi choked back a sob.
"Yes he did, Ayaan found out some case files about your Abbu and it clearly stated that Mr. Gaffur Siddiqui killed Mr. Rashid Ahmed Khan on an encounter. And the next was your case file which stated that Zoya Farooqi daugther of Chief officer Mr. Siddiqui is assigned to your case." She said and wiped off her tears.
I'd been so happy, so damn happy! But Zoya...she had been lying to me all along? She knew that her father was the one who killed Abbu and all I wanted to know was who killed him and she knew that! She knew what I wanted and she played me at my own game.
I heavily sat down on the couch and pinched the bridge of my nose, my mind registered all the facts and knew that Zoya was the one to be blamed but my heart...it was not ready to accept the fact that Zoya could do something like that. And in the end I listened to my heart.
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~Zoya~
"What the hell Mrityunjay? You cannot just barge in like that!" I shouted at him and then felt an acute pain in my stomach I clutched my stomach tightly while Mrityunjay handed me a glass of water and my pills. I immediately chugged them down and felt better.
"Zoya I was scared, ok? I mean that is the guys who has killed gazallion of people and here he was going all mushy on you! What if he had killed you? And in this state you were not even much of a fight." He said and I shook my head disbelievingly.
"I can't believe you Mrityunjay! He was the one who brought me to the hospital when I was shot! Not you! You were god knows where! Maybe hiding in a corner! He would never ever hurt me! Never!" I said and glared at him.
"You sure? What if he comes to know about your pretty little secret? About your father being the one to have killed his dear Abbu." He said and looked at me with an unknown emotion in his eyes.
"Mrityunjay...what are you talking about?" I asked him softly, my fingers already touching the nurse alarm button to my left.
"I've read your files, Zoya you are the daughter of the great Mr. Gaffur! Who killed the most wanted criminal of all time Mr. Rashid Ahmed Khan! Don't you think Asad will be delighted to have the piece of information he needs the most?" He asked me and again I could not decipher the emotion in his eyes.
The caring yet headstrong Mrityunjay I knew was changing colors like a chameleon, he was certainly not the Mrityunajay I knew. Scared I pressed the nurse alarm button and two nurses came barging in and looked suspiciously at him.
"Is the man over here troubling you Miss Farooqi?" The nurse who had been with me earlier asked me.
"Yes." I said softly and he narrowed his eyes at me, the nurses took him by his elbow and literally threw him out of the room.
"If there is any problem please tell us, ok ma'am" The nurse said again.
"Can I please have my cell phone?" I asked the nurse she nodded her head and handed me my cell phone. I quickly dialed Chief's number.
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~Asad~
"Ammi I think I need to ask Zoya some questions before I do anything." I told Ammi and got up and took my car keys.
"Asad do you think talking to her will do any good?" She asked me.
"Ammi...I love her and I just can't believe that she's been lying to me...she won't do that I know just let me ask her some questions." I said.
"You don't trust you Ammi, Asad?" She asked me softly.
"Ammi I trust you more than anyone else in the whole world, but I also love Zoya, I can't just ignore the fact just let me ask her, if she knew it all along then I promise I'll do as you say." I said and took her hands in mine.
She sighed heavily and lightly ruffled my hair and nodded her head in a yes. I took my coat and opened the door and to my astonishment there was someone already standing there.
Tanveer.
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Hola peeps! I'm back with a long update!
Hope it makes up for me updating so late 😆
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P.S. This one is specially for MILII_BAKSHI, thanks for your ideas! 😳
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