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Ibtihaj ran towards Anfal who was sitting blankly on floor.

"What happened...?"

H3 trailed off but when she didn't reply he took his phone which was laying on her lap carelessly.

A wave of peace ran down through his whole body when he saw that the number was not her doctor's and that's not what he was thinking.

But then who it could be?

With this thought he put phone near his ear.

"Hello? Who's there?"

He asked in stern voice.

"Hello sir!! It's me Rasheed!! Body guard of Mr. Murtaza. Actually Mr. Murtaza is dead!!"

"What??"

He shouted in utter shock.

" Yes sir!! He got cardiac arrest this morning."

Ibtihaj kept quite and put mobile aside after hanging up.

He turned towards Anfal and gasped looking at her damp face.

She was crying!! She was crying for the who never wanted her and respected her.

This surprised him. Surely she was not the same Anfal anymore. If it was some months before then she should have ignored it but now after all the teachings of Amma she fell in love with the word parents.

"Love!! Put it together!!"

He hugged her tightly and she burst into tears.

"Shh!! I am here! I am with you my love!!"

He was trying his level best to soothe her.

"I want to meet him one last time."

She said sitting sobs.

" Are you sure?"

He asked and she nodded.

" Ok get!! Let me take you there!!"

He made her stand up and took her towards washroom.

After making her wash her face and hands he braided her hair which were scattered all over.

After doing everything he took her hand and headed towards porch.

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"Daddy!!!"

Anfal whispered standing in front of a dead body.

Among the cries of people around her , her whisper faded away.

"Anfal!!"

Anfal turned her head sideways and saw her mother.

First the first time she saw her mother without makeup. There were tears in her eyes. She was not caring for her look anymore.

"Mom!!"

Anfal ram towards her and hugged her tightly hiding her face in her chest.

Just then their cries mingled and cried their heart out.

Anfal never thought that she would cry on her mother's shoulder someday and vice versa.

After the funeral of her dad Anfal's mother was sitting in launch whole quite.

Anfal came towards her with a tray full of food.

"Mom!! Please have something. You never ate since morning."

Anfal said caressing her mother's face

" He never cared about me!! He never cared about his family! You know what Anfal? We married brcause of love."

Her mother said and it left Anfal shocked.

" Yes!! It was a love marriage. After 2 years of our wedding we got you. I was beyond happy when I saw you. You were a mixture of me and Murtaza."

She caressed Anfal's cheek with love.

Tears started pooling up in Anfal's eyes.

" But then everything changed when Murtaza got to know about you. He wanted a son but I couldn't gave him the one. He started hating you and stopped talking with me. It used to kill me and then I started hating you. I started taking you the reason of his carelessness towards me. I then appointed Ruksana to take care of you. I stopped seeing cause when ever I used to look at you, I remembered the happy days I spent with Murtaza before you were born. Murtaza changed and I also started taking interest in my dad's company. My dad died when you were 5 and I took the charge of company. It started keeping me busy."

Her mother was saying looking at a random spot while Anfal was continuously wiping her tears.

After chatting for sometime she somehow made her eat.

After putting her to sleep Anfal came out.

She was sitting in launch when Ibtihaj came and sat beside her.

"How are you now?"

He said kissing her forehead.

"I am ok!!"

She hugged him.

They say there hugging each other on silence for Allah knows how much time.

"I think you should sleep now. You were busy whole day."

He said stroking her hair.

"I want to stay here."

"Are you serious?"

He raised brow.

"Yeah! I want to spend sometime woth my mom. Right now she needs me most!!"

Anfal said.

"Fine!! I am loving the way you took care of her despite what she had do e to you for years."

Ibtihaj smiled softly taking her hand in his and gave it a light squeeze.

Anfal smiled back sadly.

"I will come tomorow then!"

He said.

"Aren't you staying here?"

" No! I have some work but I promise I will cost you daily until you come back."

He smiled.

"Okay but put me to sleep first. My head is pinning like hell."

She said putting her head on his chest lazily.

He smiled and kissed her temple and took her bridal style and marched towards her room.

He made her lay on bed and laid beside her.

"Ibtihaj.."

Anfal called him in her trance while writing her name continusouly on his chest.

He hummed whole playing with her hair.

" You know what my mom take me today?"

"What?"

He knew that she needs to get it out.

"She told me that dad used to hate me because I was a girl and she hated me because dad started to ignore her bevause of me."

"Just forget about it already. Be grateful that atkeast now she realized that you are worth of loving. It's never gets late Anfu!!"

He said lovingly and softly givi g her a cute nickname.

"I will never do this to my child."

She said in her trance while Ibtihaj felt a ping in his heart.

"I will love everyone of them equally whehter girl or a boy. You will never hate any of them. Isn't so??"

She raised her head from his chest looked at him who was already looking at her.

He kept quite cause he didn't have the tendency to lie at her face.

" Come on answer me!!"

She asked again.

This time he averted his gaze and simple nodded.

After listening to her blabbering for quite sometime he asked her to sleep and she closed her eyes.

He kept on stroking her back until she fell asleep in his arms.

"How I will live in that room without you?"

He smiled sadly and pecked her lips.

After placing sheets over her properly he headed out.

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3 days passed peacefully with Anfal taking care of her mom.

She wanted to love her mom for all those years when she wasn't allowed to cone closer to her mom.

Her mother's broebe was fading day by day and a new emotion was filling her heart and that was love for her daughter.

Whenever she used to see Anfal smiling, a smile used to come on her lips on its own. She was grateful to Allah that he had given her such a beautiful daughter inside and out.

"Anfal!!"

She called upon her who was serving cake with tea.

They were sitting in garden.

"When you became this much responsible and mature? I still remember the crying girl who used to home whole day."

Her mother smiled.

"I am married now mama!! This beautiful relation require maturity."

Anfal smiled back.

"How you knew to speak this wisely? I never taught you anything neither you were used to of listening Ruksana?"

Her mother said thinking.

"Amma told me!! She taught me alot of things which I am thankful of. She told me that how important parents are in one's life. No matter what but you have to take care of them and love them."

Anfal said smiling.

" Don't you hate me?"

Her mother said after a while.

"Nooooo!!! Why would I??"

"Cause destroyed your childhood. I never love you. I never cared about you. You spent all these years of life like an orphan."

"Come on mama!! I don't want yo remember them and besides I think them as my trial."

"Trial?"

"Yeah Trial!! You can't get any best thing woth giving a trial. Allah testes me all those years and deprived me for love and kept me lonely just so I can get that the moral that you are alone and no one can be yours until Allah is yours. And about that deprivation then he blessed me with so many people who love me beyond the limits. This is how He help us. This is how He test his bravest soldiers in battlefield and reward them with success at the end and I think it's beautiful!!"

Anfal said and her lips along with her eyes smiled warmly.

"I never knew that you will turn put like this. I love you my daughter and I am proud of you. Please forgive me!!"

"I have already forgiven you!!"

Anfal said kissing the palm of her mother lovingly.

" So tell me Ibtihaj loves you? Does he keep you Happy?"

"He thinks of me as his life!! He makes me the happiest me just bracing me with his presence!!"

Anfal said smiling wholeheartedly.

They kept on talking for a while and then Maghrib prayer called out and they went to pray Salah.

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Days passed without a break and now it has been 10 days to Murtaza's death.

Ibtihaj used to visit her daily.

The bond between Anfal and her mother was getting stronger day by day.

" So wifey wjen you are planning to come back? Your toom and your poor husband are waiting for you so badly!!!!!"

Ibtihaj hugged Anfal from behind.

"I will come back soon to please my poor husband and my room."

Anfal smiled turning towards him.

"I am hungry!! Its seeming as if I never ate something from your hand since ages. But whom I am telling? The one who doesn't care at all!! "

Ibtihaj pouted rolling his eyes.

"Just wait! I will feed woth my hands today."

She pinched his cheek and went yo out bring their dinner.

"I missed this too much!!"

Ibtihaj sighed taking morsel in his mouth with her hands.

"It me and you didnt miss me!!"

Anfal raised brow.

"I didn't say that!!"

"What you said then?"

"I meant to say that I missed eating with your hands."

He grinned innocently.

"No!! You meant to say that you didnt miss me at all but my food."

She was fighting while feeding him.

It had been 10 days and she was missing the way he used to make it up to when she gets angry.

" Ok ok my love I am sorry!! Ia m taking my words back!!"

He said raising his hands in air.

Anfal smiled whole heartedly.

"Drama queen!!"

He said slapping her arm and pulled her in his arms roughly while grinning.

She suppressed a laugh and put her arms around his neck.

" Let me take the dishes to kitchen then we will talk peacefully."

Anfal said pulling back.

He nodded while she went out.

Ibtihaj stood up to take a your of her room.

Anfal came back a fter almost 5 minutes and entered her with a smile. Little did she knew that what was waiting for her inside.

Her smile faded away while her face went pale looking at the thing in Ibtihaj's hand.

"Yours?"

He asked in damn serious tone which was enough to snatch life from her body.

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