GONE WITH THE WIND
PROLOGUE
NEWYORK, FAROOQUI MANSION:-
I was on the bed and going through files and I heard a knock on my door "come in" I shouted and my abbu came with a smile on his face, went towards window and pulled the drape making way for sunlight light to enter "zoya little sunlight would benefit your health beta" said my abbu and I smiled him as a response
"zoya beta its been 5 years since you joined me in business and you expanded our world beyond anything my father could imagine and now you are starting PRESTIGE GROUP OF EVENT MANAGEMENT COMPANIES , and I'm glad for your business sense but I'm worried for you" said my abbu and I knew exactly where this was leading but I tried to ignore him "yes! Abbu since 5 years our business expanded so much we have prestige group of companies that include construction company , group of hospitals and now event management company and I couldn't have completed this without your help abbu"
My abbu stood by me in all these 5 years , he is been my backbone and one of the few people who are very important to me and he never questioned or asked me about my past and I'm glad that he never tried to find out about my past
"I'm worried for you beta, how long are you goin to be alone?"said my abbu with concern in his face "abbu I have you aapi, jeeju then how can I be alone" I replied but I knew that I'm alone but how could I show that to my abbu after all he stood by me since 5 years and never questioned me a bout things that happened 5 years back and it was my duty to keep him happy
"beta!! You may try to hide your feelings but I'm your abbu and I can see trough you its time you get married"said abbu and I knew he was talking about my nikha but how could I marry someone else when I'm in love with a person whom I hate the most , I'm in love with the person who broke my trust..
"zoya not just you even he requires a person who stands by him" said abbu and went to bed and sat next the most important person of my life, the reason I'm breating, he is the reason I'm on this earth and he is my strength my weakness and everything to me... my abbu sat on a bed "your son needs abbu zoya"
It was reminding me of him now and I couldn't stand any more and I wanted my abbu to end this topic and the pain in my heart just came rushing to my mouth "please abbu please stop it!!" and I couldn't control my tear
When my abbu saw tears , he couldn't bear it so the only thing that can change my mood was business so he tried to change the topic "zoya beta since 5 years you have been doing all the work but I'm getting the credit and I'm giving all the interviews so I'm planning to announce you as the new CEO and zoya it was your ammi dream to start some business in india so I wanted you to start event management companies in india and I want head office to be in Bhopal since it is your ammi birth place"
I knew that my abbu was planning to announce me as CEO from many days and that was not surprising but he wanted me to start business in Bhopal , I never imagined that I'll go back to Bhopal now but I had to go for my abbu I have to fight my past to bring happiness to my abbu and if my abbu knew about things happened to me in Bhopal he would have never asked but I had to go because it was his and ammi dream
INDIA, BHOPAL
KHAN VILLA:-
I have so much of work to do and I need to complete this by morning and I heard my ammi shouting from kitchen "asad come to dinner", I left my laptop and went to dinner...
I sat on my usual place and everything seemed normal but it was not normal since the day she left us, our house is broken and ammi has been hospitalised many times since then, when she was here she made it feel like a home but now I feel like 3 people are staying together under a roof ..
Ammi blames me for everything that happened and at times I feel I'm wrong but how could she do this to me and to ammi and I never expected her to do , she was and is the only person I love and hate the most
Dinner was a very quite since the day she left and ammi says I hardly spoke to nazma or her since she left us but I'm fulfilling their needs and what else I have to do
After dinner I went back to room I completed my presentation and was about to sleep but I had to see her so I opened a hidden folder in my laptop and scrolled through her pictures I missed her, I missed her smile, her shayari, her dimples , I missed everything about her..
When I was scrolling I saw a photo and it was the last photo of her which I took before I got to know truth about her and how could she do this to me and I couldn't control my anger and I knew I would break things if i keep seeing this photo so I just shut my laptop and went to my bed
It was in midnight even though sleep was miles away and only thing that was running in my mind was her and then I heard my phone ring and it was prakash my secretary "hello sir!! I have news for you" said prakash controlling his excitement and asked him for the reason he called me at this time "I just got a news that PRESTIGE GROUP OF COMPANIES announced a project in bhopal they want main office for their event management company and if they like it they will give same company to build in other major cities of india" said prakash . I knew a liitle bit of that company it was started by indian and his name was "NIZAM ALI FAROOQUI" he is one of the biggest tycoon in America and past five years his business has been expanded enormously and it is surprising that he is starting business in india but if we get contract from that company it'll be biggest step in the development of my company so I'd to work on this "prakash arrange the meeting with our board of members at 9:00am and cancel all other meetings and also start your quotation and I need it within a week and I need this project" as I said this and drifted to sleep slowly...
1 month later
Chapter 1:-
continues
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