A little long chapter

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Author's POV.

He asks the driver to drive fast for the tenth time by now. He didn't want to believe what his mind was telling him. He didn't want to believe all of this.

He was confused scared and hurt by all this. Confused that why they all didn't confront him directly. Scared thinking about his family's reactions specifically about Sofia's reaction. Hurt that isha had to face them alone, she had to answer them alone. That poor girl had to endure all this alone.

The car stopped in front of his house. He stepped out of the car hurriedly taking the bag with him he run inside the house.

His feet halted seeing the scene in front of him. A gasp escaped his mouth and eyes become wide in shock.

"You bitch" Sofia grabbed isha's hair making her scream in pain. "You still dare to say you didn't do anything wrong... you homewrecker. GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE" saying this she pushed her to the door.

Before isha landed on the floor and get injured badly Arshad caught her on time. After a few second she raise her eyes and that was the time he felt his whole being began shaking. Her innocent eyes filled up with tears, pain and many more questions. Questions, questions like what had she done to deserve all this.? What was her fault? Why she was here getting humiliated? Why they were treating her like a trash when she was not?

"Arsh" she whispered bringing him back to his senses.

He looks at the bruises. Her temple was swollen red, her lips were bleeding, face twisted in pain. Her painful yet innocent face makes many emotions arise in him but the biggest was rage. His jaw clenched. Eyes become red. His whole body began shaking with fury.

"What the hell bitch! Stay away from my husband! I said get lost from here! Amar drag this sl*t out of my house"

Sofia screamed and isha instantly started trembling with fear and held Arshad tightly shaking her head repeatedly and feeling his hold on her tighter even more

"STAY. WHERE. YOU. ARE. AMAR! Ab ek Kadam bhi kisi ne iski taraf badhaya, to is pure ghar ko aag laga dunga main ( if any of you take a single step toward her, I will burn this whole house in ashes)" Arshad said in a low and dangerous voice making everyone's eyes widened on his words.

"Arshad! for this whore you..." Sofia was yelling at Arshad but he cut her off. and what he said next make everyone freeze in the room including isha. his voice echoed in the room loudly.

"WIFE!!!! SHE. IS. MY. WIFE" His voice echoed in now the silent room.

After two years he finally accepts his secret wife in front of this world and their secret marriage was now out.

"What the hell are you saying?" Sofia screamed and was marching toward him but his words makes her stumbled.

"This is the truth Sofia! isha, BIWI hai meri! She is Legally and religiously my WIFE!" He screamed emphasising the word Biwi / wife.

"No....no.. your ly..lying to save her" Sofia began shaking her head. She didn't want to believe him. He closed his eyes tightly for a second to get some strength.

"No! We..." He stuttered at first but then thinking it was enough he announced loud and clear. "we are married for two years now." Making all three of them shocked to the extent that they couldn't comprehend if they were breathing or not.

Sofia felt the ground slip from under her feet. Her eyes were wide mouth was opening and closing like she was trying to breathe. She thought he was cheating on her since few months but hearing he was betraying her since two years she felt her world crushed down on her.

Arshad felt isha limping in his arms. He look down at her and held her tightly.

"Isha! meri jaan tum thik to ho na?, (are you okay, my love)?" He couldn't help and asked worriedly but in a whispered so no one could hear his love filled voice but to his bad luck they all heard him caused of the silence in the room. Isha nodded.

"Ar...Arshad leave...her" Sofia try to yell but her voice came low. She was in pain anyone can see this. Isha takes a step away from him hearing the pain in Sofia's voice. She can understand this, she had go through all this in the beginning. He looks toward Sofia. She was trembling. He walks toward her.

"I. Will. Never. Leave. her." He said the words staring into her eyes. He was hell angry the way they all abused isha. For the first time, he was only thinking about isha and her condition. Her condition makes him want to burn this house.

Sofia felt everything in her started breaking. Her heart, her hope, her confidence, her world.

"Arshad!" Her mother yelled. He looks at his mother. "What are you saying? How can you marry to her? And since two years. How can it be possible? I bring her two years ago...

"We are married before you bring her in this house Amma Jaan... you all are blaming her... but did you guys know that she was the one who left me so that she couldn't came between my happy married life but Allah has sent her in my life trough you Amma Jaan......." Arshad cut off by Sofia's whispered.

"How?" Sofia wanted to ask many things but only one word had come out of her mouth.

"Do you remember when we came here two years ago and I had to go khudakhair village for some of Amma jaan's properties to sell?" He asked and look at Amma who nodded. She knew isha also belongs from there and she had told her when they first met. While sofia stood there silently.

"When I was coming back......."Arshad looked at her before started narrating what had happened two years ago.

"....They were going to burn her. If I would've not marry her then they would've burn her alive. They gives me two options. One to save her by marrying and second leaving from there and letting her burn them. I couldn't let her die. I saved her by doing nikah..." He paused looking at isha. "....isha and I both didn't want this marriage but isha was weak and alone in this world, I couldn't give her divorce that time and left her to suffer. What Nikah means I know... Allah wanted her to be in my guard that's why he mad us together. I already thought that I will support her and will make her strong and when she will be independent I will....di...divorce her" he stuttered only thinking about the decision he made long time ago. Now he can't even think for a mere second to divorce her.

"But when I told this to her that I love my wife and I can't accept her but I will support her she left me. She left me saying she didn't want to burden me. She didn't want to ruin my marriage. But fate had decided something else..." He look at his mother. "Amma jaan brought her here.. And when I was sure that isha is save here I left with you but when came back I....."

"Why didn't you divorce her then?" Sofia cut him off asking. "You marry her to save her right.? Then when she is settle in this house and Amar wanted to marry her why you didn't divorce her?" Arshad become anxious he wanted to say everything but breaking Sofia's heart again and again makes him weak. "Tell me Arshad!!" Sh asked this time her voice was loud

"I couldn't...." He stopped wiping his face which was wet with his tears and sweats. He didn't know when his tears fall from his eyes.

"Why?" She again asked. She knew the answered but still wanted to hear it from his mouth so that what was left in her heart that could be break fully.

"Be......becasue....i...." He look toward isha who was still looking at him with her innocent tear filled eyes and that gives him enough strength to say it. "Because I started loving isha by then.... When Amar proposed to marry her I already started falling for her. If he said this before I came back here I would have happy for both of them but When Amar proposed her we both already fall for each other and I decided that I love her and I will never leave her. She is mine. Only mine" he declared making Sofia's heart ache in pain

Amma Jaan fall on the sofa while Sofia was numb. She didn't know how to react.

"I had to marry her to save her life. I never wanted this second marriage that's why I left with you and didn't look back for two years. But when we came back I couldn't stop myself from falling for her" he again said to clear himself but can he?. He knew that he was in fault for hiding this from everyone especially from Sofia but right now he wanted to clear everything so that no one could raise their finger on Isha.

Isha stare at him with her innocent love-filled eyes. He wipe his cheeks as a lone tear again fell before slowly walking toward her. Isha felt dizzy but before she fall on the floor he held her. She try to stand up again but her legs give up and Arshad had to pick her up.

They both stare at each other before isha wrapped her arms around his neck and began sobbing. She was hurting of all this. She was tired of all this. She wanted to cry her heart out in his arms.

He walks toward her room without paying attention to them. For the first time, he didn't care for anyone but isha. For the first time, he held her without anyone's fear. For the first time, he makes her his priority.

Sofia was stunned and stood there like a statue. Her eyes were wide and filled with tears. Her heart was breaking again and again. Her lips were quivering, she couldn't make herself accept that this was reality, this was true that Arshad love someone else, he care for someone else more than her. She felt everything around her begin spinning, her legs began trembling and she couldn't keep her eyes open for another second and fell on the floor but there was not Arshad to hold her.

Amar and Amma jaan held her and take her to her room.

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Arshad stared at isha as the doctor were examining her. Before coming to the room she lost consciousness. She was lying lifeless. Her face had multiple bruises. Her lips had cut and her temple was swollen. His eyes filled up again for the tenth time in the past hour. He was blaming himself for all her misery and pain which truly he was. But still, it hurt him. They all disgrace her and question her. The innocent isha had faced so much even before she met him. He knew he had connected with her because of all the pain that little girl endured at a young age. They first had the relationship of supporting and then suffering and in the end, they finally fall for each other.

"She's fine now. I've taken her blood sample for a test. I will send the test results in a couple of days"

Arshad nodded and the doctor left the room.

Arshad turns toward isha. He caressed her cheeks lovingly kissing the back of her hand before bending and kissing her forehead and putting his forehead on her.

"I love you" he whispered cupping her face. "I love you so much. It hurts me to see you like this. Please forgive me" he mumbled. She stirred getting comfort in his touch.

After some time when he felt that everything around him got calm, he sat up thinking about everything and like the truck it hit him that Sofia knew it. Sofia knew it. Then how come she didn't come after him.? Why she was silent after knowing everything? He stood up feeling scared for Sofia. She needs him. She needs his comfort words. How she reacted was somehow expected from her considering the personality she has. He can't blame her for her reaction. He was just hurt that isha had to endure their wrath.

"Arsh" as he was about to turn and was about to go to Sofia he heard isha's whisper. Arshad turned toward isha who was shaking her head in her sleep. "Arsh... Whe....where are y..ou? Plea....please.... Com...come back..... I....I ne...ed you" isha started mumbling. Her forehead was covered with sweat. Her breath was uneven. Arshad quickly sat beside her and took her in his arms rubbing her back. "Ar..sh.....Arsh"

"Sshh... Mai yahi hun meri Jaan... Yahi hun tumhare pas. (I'm right here my love... Right here beside you)" he started saying soothing words to comfort her and when isha felt his warmth she instantly wrapped her arms around him.

"Arsh....Arsh... Please....please...please mujhe jhod ke mat jaein. Mai...mai...(don't leave me)" he tightly hugged her.

"Mai kahi nahi jara. Yahi hun (I'm not going anywhere. I'm right here)" he whispered and felt isha's tensed body got to relax. After some time she pulls back a little to see his face. Isha placed her hand on his cheeks and caressed them staring at him with love and fear.

"Mujhe laga mai ne apko kho diya (I felt I lost you)" she whispered as many more tears escape her eyes.

"Mai tumhara ho chuka hun isha. Mujhe tumse ab koi alag nahi kar sakta (I've become yours. No one can separate us)" he replied with a soft smile on his lips and a moist in his eyes. A small smile came to her lips.

"Mai nahi jee sakti aapke bagair. Mai mar jaungi agar kisi ne mujhe aapse alag kiya to... (I can not live without you. I will die if anyone separate us)," Arshad again pulled her in his arms.

"Tumhe jeena hai isha.. mere liye... Tumhari zindagi meri hai. Tumhe jeena hai... mai rahu ya na rahu tumhare sath.. Tumhe jeena hoga ( You had to live isha... For me... You life is my now. You have to live. I would and I would've not be with you... You have to live) she push him slightly and glared at him.

"Mujhe aapke bagair jeena hi nahi hai..." He cut her off. (I don't know how to live without you).

"Zindagi ka koi bharosa nahi hai, isha. Aaj hai kal nahi" she places her hand on his lips. (Life is not permanent isha... Today it present tomorrow is not.

"Agar zindagi hai to aapse hai meri. Aap ke bagair koi zindagi nahi" (if life exist for me then it exists because of you... There is no life without you) she said with so many feelings that Arshad felt a tug at his heart. She was showing so openly that she was solely dependent on him which somewhere he didn't like.

"You are not so weak, isha. You have to be strong.. How you behaved today was not acceptable. You should have stood for yourself. You should've spoken. You should have told them. why you were silent? Why you endure everything silently. I can tell what they all did with you by only seeing your room " he said looking at her room. When he entered the room he was shocked to see all this and the most hurting was to see her nighties on the floor. The nighties he bought only for him to see on her were exposed revealing their most intimate moment they had spend to the family. He could say how isha felt in front of them. In front of Amar, he was also here.

"I'm not strong enough..." He put his finger on her lips before cupping her face.

"You are strong. You have faced so many things in your life and you're saying you are not strong enough. You have faced your stepmother's cruelty. She almost....sold you.. And did you forget that how you run away to escape from that hell. You were alone, isha. I was not with you at that time but still, you took that step for yourself... They almost burned you but still, you stood there with your sanity. You are strong. You have to believe it. You can face everything without me. You will not lose any battle of your life. Our life..... You will not lose. You have to fight, isha. You have to be strong. You don't need me. You don't need anyone." He tried to make her believe in herself and somehow Arshad's words imprinted in isha's heart. She started at him she could see how much belief Arshad had in her when even she was unaware of her strength.

Arshad smiled proudly and kissed her forehead when he see her eyes begin to lighten up again. He can say somewhere he made her believe in herself...

Unaware of the fact that these words will be the ones which make his life an abyss of any happiness.

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How was it?

Share you thoughts. And guys don't fight, please. You all can share your opinions but don't fight with each other. You all are my reader it means you are my army. We are in one army then why are you guys splitting into two or three groups.

Some of you were asking me to reply to your comments so here is your reply.

This is a story I'm writing it on personal inspiration. You are only reading but I've seen my aunty who is going through this, so, don't think I'm just playing here. Before starting this story I knew people will criticize and that's why I'm not reacting (and I don't have time too, to react to all of your comments) I know it hurts to think some woman share their husbands or husband's second marriage considerate as cheating and somewhere it's right to think that way but also remember that in Islam Allah has given man to marry second -or four times- (but with some conditions) and do you know why He gives this right to men? Because all women are not strong. Some isha like women also exists. You have seen how much weak and dependent girl isha was, then how can you blame her for being her. This is her upbringing. We strong girl can not tolerate this but girls like isha are born with this mentally that mehram (father brother and husband) is everything. You have seen her personality or should say I've tried my best to show her personality. She is that way. And about Arshad then...... He is a man. And isha (a little innocent, shy and honest girl) is his wife. And I think that should be enough to describe him. So please come out of your dreamland. This is reality.

Anyway, so who didn't check out my new story HIS SELFISH LOVE please go check and share your opinion🥰

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