Sophia's P.O.V

After going home I changed and got most of my homework done and decided to do some cooking experimentation. I was nearly done with making pasta with vegetable filled chick pea sauce when I got a call from Abi asking me to have dinner with him and the family. At first I wanted to decline because I had Already made dinner but I knew if I did I'd feel guilty about it all week so I accepted and decided after cooking to put the food in the fridge. Though with all the differences I had with my dad I still missed him. I don't remember when exactly we stopped talking without the tension around us. It just happened. It seems as though we both are in defense mood every time we are in the same room.

I was ready to go in less than a half hour just in time to see my dad's car coming into the parking lot from the window. I went outside to meet him and said my salaam to him. The drive to his house was a very uncomfortable, tensioned silence. That I seem to only hear my heart beating and my inhales and exhales. I pulled out my phone and texted Ray that I left dinner in the fridge if she wants it and that I was with my dad so that she would freak out when she came home and saw that I wasn't home. Rayaan has been acting weird the past few days. Like she is hiding something.

Dinner was very entertain with the triplets especially Ilhan she seems to keep the boys under her thump. There was a moment after we finished eating I think It was Issa who stuck his tongue and called her a names and she tackled him and sat on his back like she was the queen of the universe and gave the don't you even try to the other one when he came closer to help his brother out. He backed out. Both dad and their mom had pull her off him because he was screaming like his life depended on it. I was conflicted between laughing at her stubbornness and feeling sorry for the poor kid. But once that was settled I followed Abi to his because he said he had something important to tell me.

"Sophia I can't believe you never told me about this, do you know it looks like finding out that your eldest daughter is suing a school from one of your colleagues?" he asked in an accusing tone

"You never asked me." I snap because it's true he never asked me if he had I would have.

"I can't deal with this anymore I can't let you wear that thing anymore. it's an obstruction to your future." he commanded clenching my fist and feeling my temper rising and try my best to swallow my anger I got up and tried to leave the room because I didn't want to say something I would regret later only to be stopped my Abi. "Where do you think you are going I am talking to you." he yelled

"Abi please leave me alone. I can't deal with this now."

"You know what? All this started when you decided to move out and it's one of the worst decisions I made allowing you to move out you're coming home with." he demanded

"Abo this place is my home. I don't feel at home when I'm with you. I feel at home here." I said slightly rising my voice without thinking through. I knew my words hurt him but I just could stop them from spilling out.

"What do you mean you don't feel at home when you are with me?"

"Abi I just wish you would stop trying to dictate mylife like you know me so well and just accept me for who I am" I finally said feeling guilty when I saw the expression of hurt cross his face. Before I could say anything else I knew I would regret later I left his office and asked the driver to drop me off.

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I had trouble sleeping all night I couldn't get the expression of abi's face out of my head and it was weighing me down, I was literally half asleep in all my classes and when I met up with Rayaan she offered me her coffee which was weird because Ray is very possessive of her coffee I must have looked really bad even for a niqabi. I declined because coffee isn't really my thing I legit despise it a lot. It's just way too bitter for my taste buds. So on the way home I bought two energy drinks but one of them in my bag and started drinking one under my niqab. As we turn the corn to our apartment building I felt something heavy hit me in the back of my head which caused me to be see stars. As I was about to turn around I was hit again I lost my balance and saw everything around close in and turn black.

I don't know how long I was out but when I came to and my niqab turned into a burkha it took a while for my eyes adjusted to my surroundings and when I did I couldn't see much all I could tell was that the place that looked a lot like an abandoned warehouse. I tried to move my hands but noticed that someone had tied them with something that felt a lot like rope.

"Finally the one of them is awake." an unfamiliar male voice said making me quit aware that I wasn't alone. The first thing that popped into my head was what happened to Rayaan she was with me before a coward hit me in the back of the head.

"Who the hell are you?" I shouted to the direction I presumed the person was. My throat was closing up of fright. All kind of worse possibilities that could happen to Ray ran through my head

"Who I am is absolutely none of you concern as long as Daddy gives me the money you can go home without any worries..."

"Sophie! Sophie!!" I heard Rayaan's frantic voice interrupt him.

"Ray! Are you okay? I yelled back at her for the first time after my mother died I felt my heart shake with fright as I realized the situation we were in. Remembering all the times Abi told me about kidnapping that that if I wasn't careful I could fall victim to it. The main reasons why uncle and him took Ray and Me to self- defense class at a young age. The price of being a Malik was that people would someday catch on and kidnap us for ransom. I never thought much about it. This mostly concerned Rayaan since she was the heiress and shouting out her name I unintentionally gave the kidnappers the upper hand of knowing who she was.

"Sophie I'm okay but Allahu Akbar I can't see and they tied my hands." She complained.

"Shut it Ray, Just shut it." I said to her relieved to know she couldn't see them because she still had a chance of getting out of here alive.

"What do you want from us?" a person asked that sounded a lot like Michael but I wasn't sure due to the panting and groaning, sounds that followed.

"Today I just won the lottery I got myself two Maliks and a Makhmudov as well as getting pay back on the one who betrayed me by leaving. Today must me my birth day." The guy boasted ignoring Michael wonder who was he talking to I hope be isn't anything like those types of crazy pyschos on criminal minds, because there would be no reasoning with him if be decided to kill us all one by one. The best thing to do if he was, was to try and stay quiet till he forgot we were here.

"Toby let them go they have nothing to do with this you want me, you have have me so let them go." A very familiar voice called out. How in the world did he know this guy? I wondered trying to stay calm as I felt my throat close up and tried to force myself to breath as I felt my chest being squeezed, trying to cough the tightness in my throat didn't help.

"Ethan shut up you can't do this." I heard Michael yell back at him through my wheezing at that moment I panicked because I knew in this moment and place I was going to have an asthma attack and I had no clue where my rescue inhaler was. The harder I forced myself to breath the shorter my breathing in became.

I'm going to die. Oh Allah I'm going to die, and I'll die an ungrateful, disobedient child to Abi and go to hell. All I could think about Abi please forgive me.

A/N:

Salaam to all of you guys again, I really hope you guys like this update and If you do don't forget to comment and vote as well as share because as they say sharing is caring and It will be motivating for me to update more InshaAllah. I might update again this week, I don't know yet it all depends on you guys if you want it or not. Tell me what you think about this chapter InshaAllah.