Amals pov

"oh my god what are you doing here??!!!" I asked him shocked and jumped up from my seat

"what? I am a mafia too, didnt you expect me here?" he asked me

"but why are you here!!!, what if arham sees us??" I asked him eagerly pointing around the balcony

"were you crying?" he completely ignored my question,

"no" I lied.

"look at me then" he said, I could sense the concern in his voice,

I raised my eyes to meet his and my heart beat raced at the speed of 1200 kmps, Its been around year and a half since I saw someone concerned over my tears, I felt like I would fall down In joy

I inhaled a shaky breathe,

"were you crying for your freind?" he asked, i just nodded unable to form any word.

he sat down on the chair and my mind raced back to reality,

"what are you doing taha, what if arham sees us or eric, or..." I whined.

"shhhh, relax, my men will send me a hint" he shushed me and I sighed in defeat,

he placed his one foot on the edge of the coffee table and leaned back relaxed,

I looked down at arham he couldnt see us but I could see him,

"I'll take you out soon, just implant this on him and you'll be out next day" he said,

I looked at him to see two tiny devices on the table

"this square one is voice recorder and this circle one is tracker"

I nodded placing it in my clutch.

"why are you helping me?" I asked him the question I had in my mind since so long,

he breathed out heavily
"it's a long story"

"If i didnt need your help, I would have stabbed a fork in your eyes this time, you have no right to Insult a man who loved me and died for my freedom"

he chuckled
"were you this foul mouthed from the beginning?"

I rolled my eyes
"even though you are helping me I cant help but hate you from my very core"

"did you love him?" he didnt take a name but I know he is asking about samad

"I still do" I replied raising my eyes to see the sky which I for some reason felt like was weeping in sorrow just like my heart,

"this is the most civilised conversation we had until now" he pointed out amused

"now go befo...." before I could finish my sentence he got up from his seat in a swift motion and grabbed my wrist and the next thing I know is he pulled me with a jerk towards him and with a 360° swirl, my ball gown flaring out to it's full capacity and then twisting around my leg and finally unfolding itself and taking it's normal shape,
I was now facing a wall in a pitch black corner and he was behind me his arms on both side of my head and his palms flat on the wall,

I opened my mouth to say something but he beat me to it
"shh...eric is coming here" he whispered

my heartbeat decided to break the record of Usain bolt,

I felt so uncomfortable, he was too close, I felt his chest touch my back for a nano second, my genius brain for some reason thought it would be a great idea to turn around, so..... I turned around, and instantly regretted it, now I was facing his chest the tip of my nose touching his chest,

I blinked awkwardly cuz that's the only movement I could do right now, I turned my face to my left then my cheek touched his chest we were practically, basically, literally hugging, I decided letting my nose touch his chest was better than my cheek.

I noticed how abnornormally tall he is, I am wearing a six inch heel and yet I am not a inch above his shoulder, or maybe I am just short.

i felt him lower his head and look down at me and my genius brain gave me another great idea and advised to me to look up, so i raised my head and looked at him.

the moment our eyes met, the world fell silent, he looked at me as if he was reading my eyes, the little light coming from the nook of the balcony door illuminating some part of his face,
I let a hesitant shaky breathe escape from my lips, he blinked ever so slowly it made me wonder if he actually blinked that slow or I am just seeing things in slow motion.

he teared his eyes away and peeped from the slit between the door and door frame,

I lowered my head avoiding all sorts of contact from him even though it was useless since he was just a millimetre apart from me,

eric stepped in and stood in the doorframe and I felt my legs trembling I couldn't help but grab his forearm that was right beside my shoulder to stop me from falling, his eyes instantly shot back towards me, he looked at me completely forgetting the fact that only thing between us and eric was a door, I looked at eric who was looking for me,

eric looked around and disappeared from my vision, I sighed in relief, I waited for him to move away but he didnt, I looked up at him and he was already looking at me, I cleared my throat but he still didnt move

"umm...eric is gone, you can move now" I whispered, my breath fanning his neck

he broke out of his trance and instantly moved back.

"ahem.....of course" he said awkwardly brushing his fingers in his hairs,

"umm...I will go out then you go few minutes later?" I asked him, my voice coming out all awkward and squeaky.

"sure, good day" he said nodding his head, his hands behind his back as if he is a butler

"good day" I replied and stepped out of the balcony

good day???!!!
its 1:00 at night
and why did I reply the same

I frowned and covered half of my face in embarrassment while my other hand held the skirt of my gown, Helping me to walk faster.

I turned around to look if taha came out or not and I bumped into someone,

"sorr..." I froze upon seeing arham,

act cool, act cool, act cool!!!!!

no no no its may day I REPEAT ITS MAYDAY

run run run

no no no stay stay stay

no no jump down from the balcony and run away!!!

no no light this house on fire and escape!!!

oh stop my stupid inner self!!!

"here you are, I was looking for you" he said

"umm, I was with sophie then she left, I was looking for washroom and I got lost"
I smiled calmly even though my inner self was running around in the room screaming, waving her hands in the air like a maniac.

"okay, come with me Luis wants to make a toast"

I nodded following him,

we reached near the pool and the old filthy swine was at the pool where the belly dancers were few minutes ago,

"ladies and gentlemen, thank you for accepting my invite and coming today,
I would like to make this toast in honour of the mafia who has earned the most this year,
his 5 percent contribution out of his earning is more than the total of all of the mafias, please raise your glasses in honour of arham Shaikh!!!!" he said and everybody cheered,

I glanced at arham and he was raising his glass nodding to various group of angry and disappointed mafias who congratulated him.

"as we know who earns the most, wins the position of superior decider in decision committee and arham won it for the second time, two years in a row ladies and gentlemen!!!!!!, please give a huge round of applause for arham" the old peice of crap cheered,

"and 4 supporting members of decision committee are, alek chernov, Susan Smith, David frost and taha malik" he announced and I glanced towards the crowd and spotted taha, he was smiling faintly and clapping, looking like a model in his white suit jacket, black shirt and black pants.

I diverted my eyes away from him, and smiled occasionally as people came and congratulated arham with sour faces or with disinterest, clearly the position arham got is something important and every mafia boss in this room wanted it, the only person who looked unaffected by it was one and only taha malik,

I felt as if someone was looking at me I turned my face to my right to see taha looking at me with a smile, I was about to ignore him and turn away but then I noticed he was walking straight towards me.

what the f*ck is he doing????

I looked towards arham frantically,
"umm arham let's just go now" I whispered to him

"no we'll have to wait a little longer cant you see people are meeting me"

I saw taha was nearer to us and turned my face away fron him completely ignoring him

sweat formed and trickled down my neck

why in the world is he coming towards me???!!!!!

"congratulations" his voice boomed from the distance and dragged arhams attention towards it,

arhams demenear changed instantly, his eyes turned dark in anger, his face stone cold.

"congrats on winning the place of superior decider this year too" taha said with a venomous smile,

arham stared at him and answered with a hateful smirk his eyes emitting virtual fire
"congrats on losing this year too"

taha chuckled
"winning this thing is last thing on my mind, I dont like being controlled by a stupid organisation"

arham clenched his jaw

"this must be Ms amal" taha said looking at me while I stood freezed on my spot

arham slided his hand around my waist and pulled me closer with a jerk,

"mrs arham" he said to taha through gritted teeth,

"oh yes I forgot, she is the famous mrs arham who kept rejecting you for 3 years so you had to force her to marry you like the loser you are, couldn't even get a woman on your own so you forced her" taha said smiling, he was calm and composed unlike arham.

I was immediately pulled out of my frozen state, I looked at taha with a shocked face,

"if it wasnt for luis you would have been 6 feet under the ground rotting your a*s off" arham snapped,

"but you cant do anything, since you have to kiss Luis's a*s" taha remarked pouting his lips and stuffing his hands in his pocket

I suppressed my laughter,

saying that arham was furious would be a major understatement, taha pissed him off so bad.

haye mere kaleje ko thodi thandak pari,
kisi ne toh iska mu bandh karwaya,
diya na Barabari ka jawab,
(uff I he soothed my burning heart,
someone made him shut up,
gave him an fitting reply)

(seriously guys I don't know how to translate "kaleje ko thandak pad gayi" so i wrote whatever I felt was right 🤣🤣🤣)

my inner self was screaming and jumping in joy,

"hopefully never see you again douchebag" taha said to arham and disappeared,

my inner self was on her knees screaming and crying in joy,

"f*cking son of a bitch, I'll rip him apart someday" arham said furiously his fists clenched tightly, his jaw clenched.

"let's go home the f*cking bastard ruined my mood" arham snapped

I usually take a nap after iftar till dinner then I pray taraweeh but since all my lovely readers kept asking me for an early update,I worked really hard on this chapter from past two days,
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I work really hard, I have to read a chapter atleast 10 times, improvise again and again then read again then edit again, it takes just one second please vote😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵