Chapter 71

Asma was outside the door. She heard every word Ayzel said. Ayzel looked at her with a look of pain and hurt. Then she went to her room.

"SHE KNEW It! DAMN!" Burhan cried out in anger and hurt. But how did she come to know?

Zain also looked at him with anger. He already assumed Burhan was behind it.

"What that girl was barking?" Aliya Khanum yelled. She kept on asking the same question. Zikria was dumbfounded as well. Asma silently came into Zain's room.

Zain got up and went to Ayzel's room. Though he had no energy.

"ZAIN, ZAIN!" Aliya called him back.

"Would someone explain what was happening?" Aliya again yelled.

Asma slumped on the couch. She was crying. "Aliya Khanum, Ayzel was not lying or barking."

Warda was standing in the corner like a silent thief.

Zain could hear the loud voice of Ayzel. She was scolding the children very badly. She was ordering them to get out of her room. She released her anger on them.

Arham was the first to leave the room obediently. But he was sad. He met Zain at the door. Both father and Son exchanged sad and painful looks.

Farheen was still standing on her ground. Was not she afraid of her mother's anger?

"Farheen you are not dead. Did not you listen to me? Get out. Otherwise, I would do something bad to you! Get out!" Ayzel was not facing her. She was adjusting the bed in anger.

"Mama, where would I go? I don't have a room. I don't even have a father ." Farheen was sad. She mumbled in a weak voice.

Her words made Both Ayzel and Zain cry. Ayzel closed her eyes in emotional pain. She stumbled on the bed facing Farheen. She beckoned Farheen towards her and embraced her in her lap. She mumbled a weak sorry. Zain was watching everything in silence.

Farheen was cupping her mother's cheeks when Ayzel hissed in pain.

"Mama who has hurt you this time? Aunt Warda?" Farheen asked. She understood that someone had slapped her mother.

Ayzel shook her head in denial.

"Then who mama? It can't be Mr.Zain as well. Because he said he won't hurt you. Then who?" What the innocent girl knew about Zain's torture he did to her mother.

"It was Zain's grandmother," Ayzel answered her. She did not hide it from her daughter. She was making complaints to her little daughter.

"What!! Why did you go in front of her? You told me to hide whenever Aunt Warda and old Granny come. But you did not listen to your advice!" Farheen exclaimed and scolded her mother.

"Let's say Mama is silly." Ayzel gave her a soft smile.

Ayzel clutched her head. It was hurting due to the impact of Aliya's slap. The doctor had strictly forbidden her to shake the head. She had to avoid abrupt turns and steps which could make her head spin.

"Fairy, give me the medicine box." Ayzel was exhausted. Farheen helped her in taking medicine.

"Come on Mama, let's hide in the bed under the blanket. No bad lady would come to hurt us." Farheen helped Ayzel in bed. Zain watched and listened to everything. He only left when Farheen came to close the door.

Meanwhile, Asma's sobs and hiccups were shattering Aliya's and Zikria's hearts. What had happened under their noses? Asma refused to say a single word. Only Zain would confess and she would testify.

Heartbroken Zain came back to his bedroom with slumped shoulders. At his mere sight, Aliya started to ask him the questions which were burning her soul.

"What Ayzel was saying about being abducted and forced? Zain Skidner tell me! Tell me she lied!" Aliya was gripping his collar.

"No, she did not lie. I abducted her. I threatened her with her dignity and the orphanage where she lived. I forced this marriage on her." He confessed his crimes without looking at Aliya. Aliya's grip loosened.

"Bring the gun," Aliya ordered him in a broken voice. And he obliged.

"Aliya Khanum, if you are about to take his life and then take Osama's life as well. He was involved with him as well in this atrocity." Asma shed tears.

They failed to raise the children.

As soon as Zikria heard those words he marched towards Burhan.

"WERE YOU INVOLVED IN THIS TOO?" he was jerking Burhan by his collar.

"No, Dad. No. I swear. I was not aware that Zain was forcing marriage on Ayzel. He told me that he loved her. But I did not know about a word of his sick mind." Burhan cried out.

There was a long silence in the room. Then Aliya spoke.

"I can't give you the oath of your dead father. As you already hurt his soul by forcing Ayzel. You failed the cause of his sacrifice. To end that bloody human trafficking and the dignity of women he fought a war that made him lose his life along with the life of my innocent daughter-in-law and her unborn child." Then she placed Zain's hand over her head.

"But before the bell of death, confess what else have you done with Ayzel in the name of revenge." She was dead serious.

He confessed every word.

He confessed how he kept her in a dark room for days.

Starving her.

Made her feet burned.

Making her a low-grade maid here.

Giving her rotten food.

Punished her for Farheen's mistake when she picked up his phone.

The forest incident.

Humiliating her day and night.

And his last atrocities how he punished her on that cruel night. When he was silent Asma spoke.

"Warda would never confess her crimes. So I do that honor." Asma gave a look of hatred to Warda.

Then Asma told them how Warda had beaten Ayzel to blue and red. How she mentally abused Little Farheen and broke her heart. She was involved with that cruel night.

The gun was still in Zain's hand. Aliya raised his hand and put the gun's mouth at her heart. Her action dumbfounded everyone standing in the room.

"Kill me, Zain skidner. It would be impossible for me to take the life of three children I raised. Kill me. No one says a word to you. My pride and soul already died. Let's end my Walking Dead body as well. Free me from the guilt of being yours and Warda's grandmother." She calmly told him in a broken voice.

Zain's hands were trembling very badly. No word was coming out of his mouth.

Zikria stumbled on the bed due to shock and pain after hearing Zain's confession. The poor girl endured that much pain and he was not aware.

"Dadi jaan" Burhan and Warda meekly called her turn by turn.

"What is stopping the most ruthless man? Huh! SHOOT ME NOW!" Aliya challenged him.

Zain threw the gun on the side and collapsed to his knees. He could not look into her eyes anymore.

Aliya started to slap her face and beat her chest. She was wailing. Both Zikria and Asma stopped her and took her to her room. Her condition was worsening.

Zikria immediately called the doctor.

Aliya's blood pressure was very high. The doctor asked them to keep her away from any kind of stress and advised the bed rest.

When Aliya was in deep sleep Zikria talked to Asma.

"Asma Bhen! You have disappointed me. Why you did not tell me earlier? The poor girl was enduring that much and no one helped her." He was angry at her.

"Zikria Bhai, you don't know how things were going on here. For the Sake of Children's happiness, I tried to save their home. But it was already broken." Asma sighed.

"A home with a wild animal like Zain. Would you do the same if instead of Ayzel it were your daughter? Were you wished for your daughter to live with a man like him?" Zikria's words made Asma more guilty.

His heart was in constant pain after hearing Zain's words. His mind was shifting toward his unborn daughter. If she were alive today and somehow ended up marrying Zain, she would have seen the same fate.

That's why Allah did not give her life at first.

He felt the pain of Ayzel and Farheen. He failed them. He could not see their pain and tears due to Warda's madness. She almost became a murderer and they were not aware of it.

An innocent soul suffered here. Who would answer for the torture she faced?

How they would face the lord on the day of judgment?

How?

But the time of the end of Ayzel's miseries has come. By the night the elders decided to end this broken relationship forever. Zikra called the lawyer. Now there will be no delaying.