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Chapter 23

"Baby I need to go now" he said while letting go of me. We were still sitting on the floor, hugged to each other. I put my arms around his neck. I didn't want him to go.

"Why?" I asked him. We needed to find Karim, what could he do other than that?

"I need to take care of something" he said while untangling my arms from around his neck. I looked down, feeling embarassed. Of course he had other things to do. Why would he put his life on hold just because of someone like me. I nodded and he got up. I got up too when he was already by the door. I opened the door for him without making eye-contact. I still felt embarassed. I waited for him to go out, but he didn't. He grabbed my chin and pushed my head gently up. I looked in his gorgeous blue eyes. It felt like they comforted me and I felt immediately a little bit better.

"I'll be back as soon as I can, okay?" he said. I nodded, closing my eyes. I moved closer to him and put my head on his chest. He wrapped an arm around my waist.

"I need to go Manar" he said and I let go. He looked at me for a second before he went out of the door. I closed the door and sighed. I walked over to my phone, waiting for a call from Nourdin.

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"Father, you promised you were going to help me" I said while barging into my father's office. He looked up at me from his work and raised his eyebrows. I felt a bit uneasy. I didn't want to ask anything from him but I had to.

"And you promised that you were going to marry Hafsa" he said calmly, as if there wasn't any child kidnapped. I felt my fists clench and took deep breaths to control myself. When he saw that I was trying to control myself, he put off his glasses and entwined his fingers on his desk.

"Tonight at exactly twelve o'clock, you can go and take the child" he said that made my blood turn cold. Did he, did he find him?

"What? Why? Why at twelve? And from where? Answer me, father!" I yelled the last part when he didn't respond.

"I will never hear anything about this again. Grab yourself together, Kamal. I don't care what or why. I did as you said and now you have to do as I said. And where you have to take the kid? There is this old factory behind Blue High. The one I sent you to work at, not the other. The child will be there. Before that you will have your engagement, properly, with Hafsa. So be ready" he said and grabbed his phone and turned his chair around.

I needed to get out of here. I looked at the watch on my wrist and saw that there were only two more hours left. I sighed and I felt like my stomach was turning inside my body. I hadn't talked to Manar and I knew I could't tell her that I found Karim. If I did, she would tag along and I don't know what danger I will put her in. I looked at my left and saw Hafsa standing next to me, too close for my liking. I was about to walk away from her when I locked eyes with my dad. He threw me a look and I stood glued to my place, not being able to walk away.

"Look Kamal, do you like the ring on my finger? Your mother told me that you chose it for me. That's very sweet, I like it" she said and I needed to throw up. How irritating could someones voice be. Maybe it was a normal voice to others but to me it was just too irritating. I just nodded my head, not understanding and listening to what she said. I needed to get out of here, fastly.

I was racing to Blue High. It was one of my dad's schools and I didn't understand why Karim would be at the factory behind his school. I went faster and looked at my watch. Ten minutes, I had only ten minutes left. Two minutes later I would be at the factory. I was not going to give up. Manar needed Karim. I was not going to leave Karim at some psychopath who could hurt him, let alone he hurt Manar. I still didn't know what she went through and I was afraid to ask. I was afraid of the answer. I shook my head and parked to the school's parking lot. I didn't even bother to lock my car as I run towards the building behind the school. I took a sprint and jumped over the wall, something I always did with my friends when we went secretly to the old factory. It was dark and I couldn't see anything, but I knew exactly where I was. I knew this path too well to get lost. When I went near the entrance of the old factory, it started to get brighter because of the streetlight. I looked around to see anyone or anything but there was nothing, until my eyes fell over to this beauty that was running towards the entrance. I ran after her and grabbed her arm when she was about to enter. Shock went through her body, I could feel it. She became tense and froze. She didn't turn around nor did she scream. She was just frozen, like a statue. I pulled her into me and squeezed her back.

"Manar, its me Kamal. Baby its me" I said softly, trying to let her realize that I was not a stranger nor Nourdin. Slowly her body relaxed and she pulled away, looking up at me with her pale skin.

"What are you doing here?" she asked me and for a second I cursed at myself for forgetting why we were here. When her question hit me, I grabbed her arms.

"No, what are you doing here?!" I half-yelled at her. She pushed my arms away and I let go easily.

"I am here to take Karim" she said, wanting to enter the building. I stopped her.

"How do you know Karim is here? Why didn't you call me Manar how do you know?!" I yelled. Her eyes widened at my outburst and she put a hand on her hip.

"I should ask you what you are doing here and how you know that Karim is here. Nourdin called me and told me to take him from here" she said looking down at the last part. I sighed and took a step towards her, but she took one back.

"Why didn't you call me" I whispered. She just shrugged her shoulders and looked up at me.

"I didn't want to bother you" she said and ran inside. I stood there for a second before alarm bells went off in my head and I ran after her. What if it was dangerous. I yelled to her, trying to stop her but she just ran. She looked everywhere. The building was big so she was running around like a lost puppy with me behind.

"Manar, stop" I said while letting out slow breaths. This running tired me out. I looked around, trying to figure out where Karim could be when a thought hit me.

"Of course, the basement. Manar, come here!" I yelled at her and when I saw her coming to me I ran. We ran to the basement. To get there we needed to go down a lot of stairs.

"I'm going to fall" Manar said when we were hurrying down the stairs. I had never went down a stair this fast. I grabbed her arm and pulled her flush against me so that she wouldn't fall. She unconciously grabbed my hand and hold it, as if her life depended on it. I hold her hand tight too and we went down as fast as we could. When we reached the entrance of the basement I immediately went behind the stairs and found the key we put there as a child. I smiled when I saw it was still there and opened the door. The door opened easily, as if it had been opened a few times already. I grabbed Manar's hand and went inside with her. It was dark and I had a hard time looking around til I saw something white on the floor. Apparently Manar saw it too because she let go of my hand and ran towards it. When she was midway a voice stopped her. She froze, just like she did when I found her here.

"Took you long enough" and after a few seconds we saw Nourdin standing in front of Manar. He was on the other side of Karim. I walked up to Manar, even though Nourdin said that I shouldn't. I slowly put Manar behind me, not wanting her to get hurt. I felt her pressing herself into my back, holding my shoulders.

"Just give us Karim" I said. I didn't know what to say. I knew that there were twenty more guys in here and I couldn't risk anything to let Manar and Karim get hurt.

"Not so fast, Kamal" he said while walking closer to Karim. His voice made my stomach turn and I wanted nothing more than to beat him up. I couldn't let him go near to my two loved ones.

"Don't! Do not touch him!" I yelled. He looked up at me and smirked.

"You really thought that I would give it so easily? First, step aside so I can see Manar" he said. I didn't do it at first but when he looked at Karim with creepy eyes, I stepped aside and grabbed Manar's hand. I looked over at her and saw that her tears were streaming down. The anger in me raised and I felt it all directed towards the guy who caused it all.

"Why Manar, you look good. Better than before. Such a waste" he said while shaking his head. Manar opened her eyes to say something but nothing came. She then looked towards me and I nodded, trying to tell her that I was here.

"W-what do you mean?" she said. He shook his head again and started laughing. I knew that his scary laugh was scaring Manar so badly that I wanted to just pull her to me and hug her.

"Silly, silly Manar. I told you that you would regret what you did. I told you that you were going to regret putting me in prison. I told you that I was going to take my revenge. Now, its my time Manar. Today is my day. Today is the day we will be even. Today is the day, you are going to suffer. Forever" he said and pulled out a gun, aiming it towards Manar. Before I could realize what was happening, he pulled the trigger. I immediately jumped and pushed Manar behind me, trying to protect her from hurting. But it was too late. I was too late..

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