It's been a while but I am going to make it up to you guys, I Just resumed so I had like a million things to do but here it is finally.

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ZARAH'S POV

A few phone calls was all it took to ruin my life, one phone call and I am back to be sad, lonely and feeling worthless. Mum called for a family meeting and oh how I wished I didn't picked that one call that brought so much havoc to my life, I found out that my dad had another family before ours and now no one talks to any one. One phone call from an unknown number and I found out that my husband the so called love of my life was never in love with me and I was only a pawn in a sick game that was started by my step sister and now  I don't even know what is true in my life, the same phone call that ruined my married was the same phone call that revealed to me that my daughter also isn't my daughter but the child from both my step sister and husband and now I don't know where I stand in life.

If someone had told me 3 hours before the phone call that i would lose all I held dear to my heart I would call them crazy but right now I am crazy. Yes, crazy that I couldn't tell reality from lies in my life, crazy I couldn't see the resemblance between my daughter and husband, crazy i couldnt tell real love from pretence, crazy that I didn't realise maybe she wasn't even really my child and now I am lost, finally I have lost the fight of life and now I am on a hospital bed surrounded by wires and no family and all I have is the child in my womb to testify to what is mine. "I can't stay back here I have to go away and start life again In my own world" I thought to my self as warm tears rolled the side of my face and my heart broken into a million pieces.

I picked up my phone from the table beside my bed and dailed Aisha's number and after the third ring she picked
"Aisha"

"I called to tell you something and make sure no one but is knows about it"

"I am leaving the country tomorrow and i wont be back for a while and please I would apperciate it if no one wks found out"

"I'll call you when i am settled"

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It was 5 am in the morning and my flight to Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, India was about to take off, as I sat in that plane I had made up my mind to start up afresh and forget all that ever happened and all those in my past so I texted Aisha a goodbye before throwing my sim away after breaking it into two.

We arrived at 1pm Nigerian time and 5:30pm Indian time and my friend Amisha Rathore was already there waiting with a placard of my name in her hand and a smile on her lips.

"Zarah" She called out in her thick Indian  accent.

"Amisha" I replied my pace picking up as I walked to her before she joined me mid way and we hugged.

"Oh My! I missed you jaan" She said helping me pull one of my bags as we both headed out to her car.

I was supposed to stay with her and her family till I got my own place and her parents were fine with it, they also stayed in Mumbai which made it easier for me.

"Why the sudden visit jaani?" She asked slightly turning her head to look at me before turning back to face the road.

"It's a long story I'll tell you when we get home" I said putting a had on my tummy as it scrawled in hunger indicating my baby was hungry and Amisha just smiled at me.

"Sorry i couldn't attend your wedding, I was stuck with exams for my masters" She said pulling up to a two storey building that seemed really huge.

Amisha also studied in Nigeria where a met but returned home after wards but we were still in contact. She studied Medicine at Rayville university and was a medical practitioner specializing in pediatrics.

"It's nothing dear besides I am no longer married" I said like it was the most normal thing for a woman to become a divorcee bearly a year after her marriage.

"What?!!" She asked with other most disbelieve evident in her eyes.

Presently we were sitting on the couch in the guest room after a hearty meal because her mum kept filling my plate because she knew I was pregnant because I already told Ami and she told her mum.

"So tell me? What went wrong?" She asked straightening up from her laying position to look at me.

"Well it was nothing just that he lied to me the whole time and cheated me so I couldn't stand it anymore"

"Typical men but Jaan that isn't enough for you to just walk out on your marriage it's a do or die kind of thing you know"

"Honey it was more than just that it's more... It's the fact that he never really loved me and I was a pawn in a twisted mind game he and my half sister were playing. It's ..." And that was how I ended up telling her the whole story only pausing to drink water.

After telling her the whole story she had burst into tears hugging me while I sat there feeling numb, feeling no pain in the world as I spilled the story of my miserable life to my dear friend at 1 in the morning.

"Oh dear, it's best you left so you could start over again" She said inbetween sobs. 

"Thank you for accepting me, I had no where else to go if not here" I said getting up to pour myself a glass of water since the one in my bedside jug had already finished.

"And the baby?" She asked

"I'll keep my child but I'll have nothing to do with him in fact starting tomorrow I would start looking for  a job and also by weekend we would go look for an apartment for me that is close by here" I said turning briefly to look at Ami sitting on the bed where i had joined her.

"Of course my dear you made a wonderful decision you should sleep you must be tired" She said standing up to turn off the lights before leaving the room after whispering a goodnight to me.

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.... 8 months later

Push.... Push harder

You can't fall asleep

Wake up ma'am

Push... the baby's almost here

You can do it

Here we go... One more push

*ear piercing cry* Awwn it's a boy

Good job ma'am

Time of birth 8:32pm

Weight 3.5kg

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Hold your child Mrs

Adeel I whispered into his ears as I held him for the first time as tears rolled down my face, he was here "my son, my strength" Adeel meaning the just one. He had his father's eyes and nose but all other features where mine i though checking him out and he smiled showing his cute one sides dimple .

I woke up hours later and Ami, Rohini  Aunt, Abisheikh Uncle and Arif were all in the room playing with baby Adeel who seemed to love the attention as he giggled and Arif by my side a beautiful smile on his lips as he mouthed a congratuations to me. Arif was my dear friend we met when I started working in his company months ago after we met at Ami's place because he was a family friend, at first I was mean and rude to him but later warmed up because he would stop pestering me to smile. He was the closet I had to a brother.

...4 years later

"Zarah marry me,  I won't promise to be the best or to always fight for you but I can promise that whenever you need me I'll be there, I can promise that when you want to rant and break things I'll hold you down and when you feel like you're tired of life I'll be your reason to smile again because you have the most beautiful soul in the world. I can promise to be the dad that Adeel deserves and be his hero even if you don't marry me but for me to do all these first you have to marry me. You might not say yes first but i won't stop asking" Arif plopped down on one knee in front of Ami and her whole family on Adeels birthday and I was shocked because he never once made a move and now he proposed to me, I was stoned I didn't know what to do it say so I just stood there till I felt I little tug on my Skirt which was Adeel and he moved on to hug Arif and I'm his baby voice said "get up papa" and that was all the pushing I needed to hug Arif while I cried into his shirt and he just held me saying nothing and just patting my back.

Later that night after all the congratulations and hugs we received as I layed in bed with my phone in one hand and my other hand running through Adeel's hair I dialed my mum's number since I haven't heard from her in almost 3 years.

"Hello" Came her voice lost and in pain and it pained me to know that I was the cause of it.

"Hello!" she said again

"Mum" was all I could say

"Zarah, is that you, are you okay?, where are you?" She said all in one breath.

"Alhamdulillah ma, I am fine. How are you?" I said years flowing down as I got up from the bed and stood by the balcony.

"I missed you my dear child" She said and from her voice I knew she was crying.

"I missed you too mum, your grand child says hi and mum I've found someone who loves me just as I am and for real this time" I said smiling stupidly to my self.

"Grandchild?" She asked confused

"Yes mum before I left I was pregnant and his name is Adeel" I said like it was the most obvious thing on earth.

"Inalillahi and you didn't call or text me, I am coming to India tomorrow with Aisha because she's been worried sick waiting for you to call for three years " She said and I heard shuffling on the other side of the phone.

"Zarah, you said you'd call and I've  waited 3 years for you to call, 3 years thinking I might have lost my best friend and now She calls to tell us she has a child! Zarah meh na miki " She said sounding broken and then I heard my door bell ring so I walked down to the door and opened it to meet the most unexpected people as smugly walked in like it was their house and he spoke up

"Hey, stranger" And I dropped my phone which shattered into pieces that were fixable and I just stood there in shock.

"How did you find me?" I said almost inaudibly as tears filled my eyes and I heard Adeel come out of the room "mama, I want to pee" he said rubbing his eyes as he walked over to me and one of them said "isn't he the cutest, what's his name" He said walking over to Adeel.

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I am honestly really sorry for not having updated in a month I hope you guys still love me and to make up I promise you guys two more chapters during the week. Much love to all of you that still read my book despite my inconsistency.

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