The nikah was committed and for her father's will Zoya this time as well agreed to get married to the person, who was on the another side of altar, rolling down the tears all over her cheeks and closed her eyes reminding the memories which she has spent with Haider and thought in her mind,"You can never take Haider's place, I always being love him", and swallow the thick lump of the another chapter of life.

In Khan Mansion, Dilshad welcomed Zoya with loads of love,but Najma departed towards her room being unaware of the fact that Zoya has never left Asad and was a reason of his livelihood and success not the loneliness, she has believed the only part which she has witnessed in California of Asad's, over-burdened and burnt in Zoya's memories, who was on the other part of the World was burning in her own life.

Dilshad left Zoya in Asad's bedroom and left, kissing her beloved daughter in law's forehead that was all drenched in tears, tried to hold her hand as if wanted to say, DO-NOT-LEAVE-ME-ALONE-HERE.

Alas! She didn't considered her request with moist eyes, and left when she witnessed her son Asad, on the door of the bedroom, Zoya realizing it wiped her tears and gulped the thick lump of hatred again.

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Past

Zoya was too anxious to meet the person with whom she was forcefully married with,sitting on the center of the bed, with veil on her face. A tear fell down on her palm when she realized that the man has closed the door and now she was bit fearful. Noticing, that he was coming towards her she grabbed the vase lying on the table and when he sat down on the bed near her, she immediately hit his head.

"Ahhh!", Haider cried and unveiled her face throwing the dupatta on the floor mercilessly.

Zoya cupped her mouth and murmured his name, "Haider!"

"Is it your habit or favorite hobby to hit guys with vase in the night", he clenched his jaw, and she turned ahead as in he smelled badly,she noticed it was nothing, but alcohol.

She wiped her tears and curtly asked, "Are you drunk?"

"So, is there anything hatred about few pegs", he very casually answered.

She narrowed her eyes, "It is haraam in Islaam"

"So what?", he behaved as if nothing happened.

Zoya was in disbelief and replied, "It doesn't seem that you are the same Haider, whom I knew", and jumped from the bed to open the door but he grabbed her from back and throw on the bed. "This room is mine, yaha ka door lock bhi main karta hoon aur unlock bhi"

"Ho kya gaya hai tumhe?", she shivered with fear.

He laughed, "I am your husband babes, fully rightful on you", she grabbed her duppatta listening this and tears were flowing down from her eyes when he continued, "But mera man nahi hai aaj, I am interested in your so-called haraam", and laughed again, unlocking the door, when she asked, "What do you want from me?"

He came very close to her she bent back and he mocked, "Poor wifey! Your paisa jayedat daulat rupya, in short....", he caressed her cheek with back of his fingers seductively, "In short, money"

"So this is why you married me?", Zoya asked with moist eye sand he hit her cheek lightly, "Intelligent girl, par utni bhi nahi...."

"This is why you assist abbu and befriended me and Asad",she asked to extract everything out from him.

"Arey waah! Itni jaldi samajh gayi, par us Asad ka naam mat lo", he came near her ear and nuzzled she kept her face aside he was smelling really bad.

"Saley Asad ka naam mat lo, he has found out that, tch... par accha hai bhaag gaya yaha se", and bit her earlobe at which a tear fell fromher eyes but he laughed and left the room, locking her from outside. She was banging the door but he didn't open her, what if he could, they were alone in the whole house.

She cried, cried and cried leaning over the door and slipped to the floor and hugging her knees and kept rolling the tears from her red puffy eyes.

Present

Asad came inside when Dilshad left and closed the door which shivered the fearful Zoya and when he was coming near her she immediately hold the vase with shivering hands and grabbed the courage to say, "Don't come near me", but he didn't listen to her and grabbed the quilt lying beside her and slept on one corner of the bed.

She frowned, "Tum kya ho Asad Ahmed Khan? I will never know. Kabhi – Kabhi maine tumse pyaar kiya tha, but hated you even more when I realized that you knew about Haider and still you ran away, knowingly that-that he was a – a",and didn't giving Haider a name, she leaned towards the wall, stuck to it, and tears started rolling down her eyes and she again thought, "Why? Why Allah? Why marriage is not a bed of rose for me?", and sobbingly, crying she slipped from her toes and destined to the floor, hugging her legs and crying hardly but he,the person in the room didn't even reacted.

He was not facing her and tears destined to the floor from his eyes too, "Poori umar bas tumse pyaar kiya maine, ankho main tumhare ek aansoo nahi dekh sakta aur shayad rulaya maine hi tumhe sabse jyaada, because life is not bed of rose"

Past

Asadclashed his jaw, "Kya bakwas karrahe hain aap", and left nodding her head at her shamelessness but Gaffur cried at his sins.


"Please Asad is marte aadmi ki aakhiri khwahish samajh ke karlo", he joined his hands in front of Asad and he couldn't see him like this, so helpless and nodded his head.

"Mere jaane ke baad koi bura saaya bhi meri betiyon par nahi padne doge na, please", Asad nodded his head and said, "thik hai, but on one condition"

"Mujhe sari shart manzoor hai", Gaffur replied immediately.

"Shart manne se pehle sun to lijie", he said.

Gaffur bit his lip and asked,"Aap apna khayal rakhenge aur ....aur mere aur Zoya ke bich kabhi bhi kuch bhi hojae....wo mujhe kitna bhi hurt kare aap kuch nahi kahenge"

"Agreed?"

"Par tumhe kyu? Fault is mine."

"Agreed?, ye baat Humeira kobhi maanni padegi"

"Thik hai"

He shook hand with his futurefather-in-law and instructed Humeira as well, who hugged him tightly in tears.

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A/N: This is a pure fiction, no intention to hurt religious feelings, if I did, I am apologize for it.

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