Chapter 11

All the money Zaria had brought with her for the journey was finished. She had nothing to eat. She was wondering how to get back. Such a long journey could not be free of cost. She had so much money that she could spend her whole life in comfort, but that money was in her house. At first she thought of begging but then another thought came to her mind. She was so beautiful that anyone could spend millions of rupees ( Pakistani currency ) on her. She took off her ponytail, untied her hair, set them up with her hands, took glasses out of her handbag and looked at her face. She looked more attractive now. After some thought, she put a deep red lipstick on her lips and looked around the road, waiting for a car in which a man was riding alone. Two vehicles came and passed in front of her but there was more than one person in them and also women. In the third car was a boy who was only 22 years old. Zaria thought of making him her prey and walked down the middle of the road. The boy in the car barely applied the brakes, otherwise there would have been an accident. He came out full of anger and was about to say something when he was amazed to see her charming face. Zaria cleverly brought tears to her eyes.ns

“Are you alright?” The boy came to his senses and asked.

“Yes.” Zaria took a deep breath, looked away, and returned with a pounding heart.

“Listen.” Hearing the boy’s voice, her lips smiled spontaneously. As expected, the boy had fallen into her trap.

“Where are you going? Should I drop you?”

“I have to go to Skardu.” Zaria broke the record of innocence

“Skardu? It’s too far from here,” he said in surprise. It was the city of Karachi.

“Really. I didn’t know,” Zaria said pretending to be unknown.

“Then how are you going to get there?” He ask

“I’ll ed with concbe gone. somehow,” she said in hopelessness.

“I can help you if you want,” the boy offered.

“I will go …” Zaria wanted to protest weakly.

“Please...” He grabbed Zaria’s hand and led her to his car. Zaria sat in the passenger seat and the boy took the driving seat.

“By the way, My name is Fahad. What is your name?” Fahad asked as he started the car.

“Zaria.”

“Wow, beautiful name.” He spoke in an admiring tone, and Zaria smiled charmingly.

“Your name is also very beautiful.” The boy smiled with exaltation at her compliment.

“Well, why are you going to Skardu?”

“My house is there.”

“Then how did you get here?”

“Someone kidnapped me from Skardu and brought me here. I ran away with great difficulty.” Zaria told him a fake story.

“Oh …” Fahad was very sorry for that.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take you home safely. It’s going to be evening. Stay at my house tonight. I’ll leave you to Skardu tomorrow.” Fahad said sincerely.

“Thank you,” Zaria spoke in a grateful tone.

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Anna was tired after a while and sat down. Haad also sat on a rock a small distance away from her. His eyes were not on Anna but all his attention was on her. It was also a source of satisfaction for Anna. With him, there was no danger to her. She knew it very well.

After spending some time there, she got up and started walking again. Haad also started walking with her silently. There was a distance of ten steps between them. But they were moving ahead with each other continuously. There was a row of trees between them. Sometimes they would disappear and sometimes they would come into each other’s eyes again. Anna was moving forward feeling strangely uneasy from his silence and distance. Then suddenly her foot turned. She screamed in pain and bent down.

“Anna!” Haad forgot his anger and ran towards her. Anna was sitting on the ground. Haad bent to check her foot. He brushed his hand on Anna's red ankle. Anna was staring at him with mixed emotions in her heart.

“Can you walk carefully?” He scolded in a stern tone. He was gnashing his teeth angrily when he heard some voices. They were the roars of wolves. Haad felt they were close to them and more than one in number. He quickly lifted Anna into his arms and ran in the opposite direction to the wolves. Anna was amazed at his speed. But then she remembered that Haad was a witcher. Anything was possible for him.

“Why are you running? Slow down.” Anna said angrily

“There are wild animals here. We have to get out of here,” Haad told him. Anna was also afraid of wild animals. Haad was not going in any particular direction. Nor did he intend to go to the city. He just wanted to get out of the danger zone. But as he moved on, he heard wolves coming from the front. He felt that they were in more danger. He didn’t care about himself but he cared about Anna. He couldn’t let anything happen to her but Anna could be scared to see the wolves. So he wanted to escape the wolves. But destiny did not write that. There was a lake near where he was. There were crocodiles in it. when the crocodiles saw them, they followed them. Haad sped up his speed more. Anna hid her face in his chest, screaming. After a while, they escaped from crocodiles but they came close to the wolves. Haad turned right, but after walking a few steps he saw a lot of snakes. Anna fainted from fear at the sight of these snakes while Haad took a deep breath. He walked back to where the wolves were. He realized that he had to face the wolves. He laid Anna on the thick branch of a large tree so that she hid in the leaves and when he came out from the other side of the tree, he had turned into a wolf. He thought of becoming a wolf to deal with the wolves.

When a group of wolves approached him, they saw a lone wolf and thought that he belonged to another group of wolves. His size and body were somewhat different and larger. They all rush on him at once. The horrible sound of groans began to echo in the air. The atmosphere was terrible. Haad was not able to save himself from injuries but was doing a lot of damage to the wolves. The wolves were falling away with his single blow. They were ordinary wolves while Haad was a werewolf. He was badly injured but injuries effects were minimal. He killed them all one by one. There were piles of wolf carcasses and Haad was finally the winner.

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The helicopter was flying over the forest. Sanan and Aman, along with three other companions, were looking for Haad and Anna, watching out of the helicopter windows at the forest below. Somewhere in the forest, there were clumps of deep trees and somewhere there were very few trees. Sometimes the ground would rise in the form of a mountain, sometimes it would become deep like a gorge. They had searched half the forest, but Anna and Haad had not yet been found.

Anna had regained consciousness but Haad had brought her far away from the place of bloodshed by this time. Her foot pain had also subsided. But Haad still held her in his arms. It was evening when he heard a strange sound as he walked through the trees. Anna looked at the sky in wonderment. But the sky was not clear. They were standing under a thicket of trees.

"Helicopter ... I want to see the helicopter." She spoke excitedly, trying to get off his arms. Haad couldn't stop her this time. He had promised her that he would not stop her from going away. Anna came out of the clump of thick trees under the open sky and looked up. At that moment, a helicopter appeared to her left. Anna smiled. She loved to see helicopters.

Sanan had seen Anna through the window. He ordered the pilot to land the helicopter on a plane cliff. The pilot soon found the plane rock. Helicopter landed. Sanan jumped out of the helicopter. Aman and other comrades followed him.

The smile disappeared from Anna's face as the Helicopter disappeared from her sight. She turned and looked at Haad who was standing next to her. Haad also looked at her. She turned her face back and walked to one side. Haad began to walk with her quietly. Then the sound of someone's running footsteps came from one side. Haad was startled. With a sigh, he guessed that they were human. He grabbed Anna's hand and quickly hid behind a tree.

"what's...." Anna said something but Haad put his hand over her mouth. She stuck to the trunk of the tree and stared at him angrily.

"Shh." He whispered and removed his hand from her mouth. Anna could barely contain herself. Haad peeked out of the tree. And Anna was staring at him, standing very close in front of her.

Sanan came to the place where Haad and Anna were before. Seeing this, Haad took a deep breath. Sanan had found them. He took Anna's hand and came in front of him. Sanan looked at him in surprise. Sanan's comrades were also standing with him holding guns.

"Sanan!" Anna happily released her hand from Haad and ran towards Sanan. Haad's heart hurt. He was jealous of Sanan. He stared at him angrily.

"Have you come looking for us?" Anna asked as she approached him.

"Hmm. I've come to get you both," he said to Haad. Haad didn't say anything.

"Did you find my mother?" Anna asked eagerly.

"No. I'm trying." Sanan said.

"Now I'll find my mother on my own," Anna said firmly. Sanan looked at Haad but he said nothing.

"Come with me, Haad," he said, holding Haad's arm. Haad offered no resistance and walked with him. Anna and her other companions joined them. Shortly, they came to the helicopter.

"Helicopter! That's what I saw in the sky. Shall we sit in it?" Anna asked happily. Sanan smiled and shook his head. After a while, they were all sitting face to face in the helicopter and the helicopter was soaring in the air.

"I didn't expect this stupidity from you, Haad!" Sanan said, looking at Haad.

"Fools should be expected to be stupidity. You know how hard I spent my time in the forest," Anna snorted. Haad just took a silent deep look at her. Sanan understood that something had happened between them.

"Why aren't you saying something, Haad?"

"Because I don't want to talk," Haad said, turning his eyes with annoyance. Sanan stared at him.

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Fahad lived alone in his apartment. His parents lived in another city. He came to Karachi to study. He belonged to a rich family so he bought an apartment instead of staying in a hostel. That apartment was neither big nor small. Enough for four or five people. fahad's friends used to come to his house many times and spend the night there. He was praying that no friend would come here today because Zaria was with him today. If they had seen him, they would have thought that he was having an affair with Zaria.

"This is my house." He was looking at Zaria with interest.

"It is beautiful. Do you live alone?" Zaria said with a light smile.

"Yes. Actually, this is not my city. I have come here to study," Fahad replied.

"Good." Zaria nodded.

"Let me show you the room for you," Fahad said, they headed towards the room.

"You relax here. I'll cook for you," Fahad said, after reaching the room.

"Do you know how to cook?"

"Yes." Fahad gave her a smile and left the room. As soon as he left, the smile on Zaria's face disappeared.

"idiot." She muttered with hatred.

After a while, they were having dinner in the dining hall and Fahad was eating as well as talking. Zaria was getting bored but she was not letting her face show disgust. Fahad was telling her something about his university when the main doorbell rang. Food got stuck in Fahad's throat. He started coughing.

"What happened?" Zaria asked, giving him water.

"Looks like my friends have come. You stay here. I'll send them back from the door." He took a sip of water and got up. Leaving the dining hall, he came to the entrance and opened the main door. And Seeing the person standing in front, his color turned pale.

"Dad ... you?" He muttered in a low voice.

"Yes. Can't I come here? You are surprised as if I have come for the first time. Move back. Will you stop me here for the whole night?" Said Tabish. He was a well-proportioned man of about fifty-five years. Fahad was very afraid of him. If he saw a girl in his department, he would get very angry. That is why Fahad's breath was drying up.

"You came suddenly." Fahad was barely speaking.

"Yes, I came here for important work. I thought I would spend the night with you." Hearing Tabish's words, he swallowed.

"But ..." he said. they stopped and looked at him.

"But what?"

"Nothing." He shook his head. Tabish nodded, entered the lounge, and sat down on a sofa.

"Ready room for me. And bring me some food. I haven't eaten dinner yet." He picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.

"Ok." He bleated and turned. He wanted to hide Zaria from his father and send her to the room to try as much as possible to hide from him that no girl is at his house. He hurried into the dining hall.

"Zaria we have a problem. My father has come here. I don't want him to know that there is a girl here," he said with embarrassment.

"No problem. I'll leave." Zaria was polite.

"No, you go to your room. You won't leave the room until I tell you in the morning." Fahad said and she went into the room with a forced smile.

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After getting off the helicopter, they both sat in the jeep with Sanan. Aman was with them. There was a separate car for the other three. The helicopter landed at Fairy Meadows. It was ten o'clock at night. Sanan intended to take them both to his home.

"Stay at my house for a few days. I will arrange a place for you soon." Sanan turned his face slightly and said to Haad.

"I don't want to go to your house," he replied bluntly.

"Don't be stubborn. Where are you going at night? Anna must be tired too. You guys need rest." Sanan explained.

"Let him go. Take me with you." Anna turned her face to Haad. Haad clenched his fists. Even though he wanted to, he could not claim any right over Anna. Sanan looked at him with questioning eyes but he remained silent.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements at the hotel for both of you," Sanan said, taking out the phone. He knew that Haad was angry with Anna. But he was also furious at sending Anna with him.

Sanan booked two rooms in a hotel over the phone and asked Aman to take the car to the hotel.

After a while, the car was parked in front of the hotel. Aman remained in the car while Sanan went inside with Anna and Haad. Haad didn't know what to do. He had to make all the arrangements. After leaving Anna in her room, Haad stopped him as he was returning with Haad.

"I want to marry Anna," he said seriously. Sanan's heart was pounding for a moment. But he had overcome himself.

"Has Anna agreed?" He asked after a pause.

"She doesn't agree, but she promised me." Had said, and sanan looked at him with confusion.

"I have made a promise to her too. We both have to keep our promise." He was sad.

"What did you promise her?" Sanan asked.

"I will not be allowed to keep her with me," Haad said sadly. Sanan looked at him sorrowfully. People would get closer after marriage while they were both going away.

"I told you to make her feel your love, but you didn't stop fooling. It had to happen." Sanan scolded him. He smiled sadly.

"I don't know how to love. But now, I have known that no matter how hard I try, I can't force her to love me. It's okay if she wants to get away from me. But she can not be someone but me. She will have to live with my name for the rest of her life. " Haad spoke obsessively.

"What if she likes someone else?" Sanan asked this question out of an unknown feeling.

"It can't happen. I'm sure. No one will be able to give her as much love as I gave her. She can go away from me but she can't get rid of my memories. One day she will return to me. She has to be. "Haad said with belief, so Sanan watched him in silence for several moments. Yes, he was right. No one could give more love to Anna than Haad.

"I'll arrange your wedding tomorrow." Sanan took a deep breath.

"Thank you. You're a good friend." Haad praised him sincerely. Sanan smiled.

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