Meher's p.o.v
"Sehreyar! I uttered with too much shock. I don't know how he came to know about my location. Is he again come to say sorry? But, looking at his face I am feeling that he isn't here to say sorry because he is looking angry.
He yelled on my face," With whom you have slept and fulfilled your dirty needs? you shameless bitch!"
He asked me glaring at Mehrab who is afraid because of hearing his loud voice. It didn't take much time for me to understand what he is thinking about Mehrab.
" You don't have the right to ask me any questions. Who am I to you?" I asked him going backwards?
He said angrily," I have every fucking right on you."
" Oh, really! From which angle? As per I remember you are not my husband nor my lover nor you........I couldn't complete my sentence when he almost choked my neck and barked on my face," with whom you were whoring around? Huh! I am fighting against my whole family for you and here you have a bastard with some fucker! Do you have any idea what I have felt for 3 years without you? Every day I was praying for your soul and now I came to know that you have slept with any fucker without being married. You slut. Were you that desperate?"
I jerked off his hand from my neck and snapped at him," It's none of your concern whom I have slept. And why are you fighting against your family for me? Aren't you still satisfied with my body? Aren't you satisfied after destroying my life for your revenge?"
" No, I am not satisfied with you yet. I want you only for me. From today you will live with me and I will punish you every day for sleeping with another man," He said with determination and clutched my hairs tightly.
I said almost crying," leave me. I will never go with you. I am not an object whom you can possess however you want."
He didn't listen to my crying instead he has tightened his grip on my hairs. Mehrab was seeing all this with his terrified eyes and couldn't tolerate the fact that someone is abusing his mother.
He bit on Sehreyar's hand and said angrily," bad you giant. Not hult my mamma ( you bad giant. Don't hurt my mamma).
Sehreyar left my hairs because of Mehrab's bite and but I can feel his anger-filled eyes on me and Mehrab. He is looking like a raging bull.
" Tell me, whose child is it? He asked me holding my chin. He is looking at Mehrab with pure hatred.
Somehow I freed myself from his grip and said holding Mehrab protectively in my arms," The baby is only mine. I am the mother."
He clenched his fists in anger and yelled," For the last time I am asking you, who is the father?"
"it's none of your business. At least you are not my baby's father," I snapped at him with pure hatred and found him groaning in total frustration. He pulled his hairs in frustration and anger.
Mehrab started crying badly hearing his loud voice. I cooed in his ear," Mera baccha (my dear). Don't cry. Mamma is here. No one will harm you."
Hearing me, Mehrab snuggled more into my chest.
Then, without any warning, he snatched my baby from my arms and asked angrily," Tell me this bastard's father's name. Tell me, who dares to fuck you. Oh! Correction; tell me whom you had fucked? After all, you are a whore."
He said the last sentence mockingly fueling disgust in my whole system. I am feeling like to slap him with my slippers.
He is holding Mehrab in the air using his small dress like Mehrab is any kind of object. He is crying and calling me. Mehrab said crying," Mamma.... I....em(am)...aflaid(afraid)."
My heart cried out in pain hearing my son. I yelled trying very hard to touch my son," you monster, leave my son."
And the next moment he did something which I have never imagined in my life. How can someone be so cruel! How can someone behave like that to a small baby!
He threw my son on the floor like my son is any kind of trash.
Because of the impact, Mehrab started crying badly holding his forehead. He has banged his head on the floor.
I yelled looking at that devil," You monster. I will not spare you. How dare you to hurt my son!"
Saying that I crouched down and picked up my son in my arms. My son is crying badly and I felt that his forehead is bleeding slightly. Immediately I pressed my dupatta on my son's forehead to stop the bleeding.
I looked at the monster with pure rage. But, Before I could utter another word he asked me clutching my hairs," Fucking whore! Tell me, whom you have fucked behind my back? Tell me, with whom you have slept? Tell me dammit......."
After that, I did something which I should have done earlier. I slapped him hard printing my five fingers on his right cheek.
He looked at me with disbelief holding his cheek where my hand connected.
Then, I said venom dripping from my voice," You don't have the right to ask me about my baby's father. Don't forget that we have nothing between us anymore. You are calling me a whore! Huh!! But, in reality, you are a manwhore!"
He gritted his teeth in anger tried to say something when I said clenching my jaw," You are nothing. Don't forget that you were the one who had thrown me away. You are forgetting that you are promised to another woman and you are already married. Don't create any drama here. If you are so much decent then what are you doing in my house? Didn't you say that you are now bored of me?
You should return to your wife...whatever.!! Just get lost from here. I am feeling disgusted seeing you."
I emphasised the word wife mockingly.
" Don't remind me of that trashy marriage and that woman. That marriage was just a burden for me. I will obviously leave this place after taking you with me. But, first I have to kill this bastard," He said taking out his gun.
He pointed the gun at my baby's head and I yelled angrily," You monster. After snatching everything from me, you are here to snatch my baby from me. I will not let you snatch my baby from me."
Saying that I quickly picked up a small flower vase which is made of brass. I banged it on his head and he holds his head screaming loudly.
Everything happened just in the blink of an eye.
Blood is oozing out from his head and he fell on the floor. He is groaning in pain when I said giving two kicks on his stomach," the first one is for making me your mistress and the second one is for trying to kill my son."
Then, I said leaning a little to his level," Didn't I tell you that a day will come when you will you be dying in front of me and I will not give a single glance at you. Today is that day."
Saying that I bandaged my son's forehead and prepared myself to leave this place as soon as possible. I don't know where will I go. I am just tired of everything.
Before leaving this house I said to his unconscious body," Next time if you come in front of me then I will kill you with my own hands. If you think that you will again try to control me then it will be your biggest misconception. I am not that weak 18-year teenager anymore."
Haniya became startled after hearing Adeel. Though she loves Adeel but she can't tolerate if someone disrespects her brother.
" Mind your language, Adeel. I know you hate my brother but you can't say any bad words about my brothers. Moreover, why did you call him rapist? Haniya warned Adeel and then asked him.
Adeel chuckled and said," Do you have any idea what your dearest brother has done to my sister?"
" What do you mean? Haniya asked confusingly.
After that, Adeel started saying everything whatever Sehreyar has done to Meher. He told her how Sehreyar made Meher his mistress for revenge. He told her how Sehreyar used to rape Meher. He also told her about Meher's baby who's biological father is Sehreyar. While saying all this Adeel almost cried for Meher.
On the other hand, Haniya becomes dumbfounded after hearing him. She can't believe what she has heard about her brother. She can't believe that her brother is a rapist.
" I don't believe you," Haniya said nodding her head in negative.
Adeel replied taking a deep breath," you believe it or not. It's the truth."
Haniya is completely silent. She isn't understanding what she should say. She is still in daze after hearing Adeel.
" My sister was just an 18-year-old teenager when your asshole brother raped her," Adeel said and closed his eyes thinking about Meher's pain.
Haniya is still silent. She is now totally heartbroken thinking about her brother. She used to think Sehreyar as her idol. She couldn't believe what her brother has done.
" Whatever has happened between us, it was all consensual. I never forced you. But, your dickhead brother raped my child sister and destroyed her life," Adeel said and pulled his hairs due to utter pain in his heart.
Haniya is listening to everything and crying. Her belief is shattered now. She is feeling the same pain which Meher felt after hearing her brother's sins.
But, something snapped inside Haniya's head. She remembered her conversation with her Dadi. She remembered how her Dadi blamed Meher about everything. Haniya isn't understanding whom she should believe. Is her dadi saying the truth or Adeel is saying the truth?
" Only bhaiya can tell me the truth," Haniya thought mentally.
" That asshole........" Adeel tried to say when Haniya said to him with her cold voice," I admit that my brother had done a heinous crime but it's not one-sided. You started everything. Don't blame him only."
Hearing her, Adeel felt like someone has slapped him hard on his face. He became quite hearing her because he has lost his words.
After staying silent for sometime Adeel requested Haniya," your brother is unaware of his baby and I don't want him to know about that child. I don't want him near my sister anyhow. Promise me that you will not say anything to your brother about the baby."
" Adeel, I don't know what I should say. Everything is feeling so much complicated to me," Haniya replied having a disturbed expression on her face.
Adeel is going to say something when Haniya's phone started ringing. She received the call and her facial expression is now changed. She is looking panicked.
" I will come right now," Haniya said hurriedly and left the waiting room without uttering any word to Adeel.
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