S H E watches Eira running away from her scared for her life and she understands what those sick people who played with her would have felt when they saw fear in her eyes however her ex-husband liked her blank eyes way more. He always said that he wants (needs) her eyes without hopes and wishes. That was his greatest desire he worked quite well at.

Her red eyes turn towards Laith who looks equally puzzled and scared. With a pounding head and feeble body she walks towards the couch stumping on them. But since the fire in her was ignited there was no need for anything else but work.

She needs to work.

Hard.

She ignores her body and mind protesting against her will and her icy cold eyes turn to look at Laith who was looking at her cautiously.

"What do you have on him?". She snarled as she didn't wish to take his name

Her husband moves away from the place bringing a medicine knowing she is in pain and she sends a small smile watching him worry for her even after hearing most of the things directed at her.

Laith timidly places the papers in front of her that he had been wanting to show her all through this time. Her husband sits beside her placing his hand on her leg for a little support and her body shivers under his touch which she blames on the alcohol on her system.

If he wasn't here through the whole scene he might have not understand the reasons behind how lethal she looks at this moment.

It was her right.

He would have done that too he knows she was trying so hard to finally live and someone come shoving her back down.

He has seen that glimmer in her eyes when he unexpectedly catches her watching him. Those times when he will speak just about anything knowing she loves to hear his voice and that his voice calms her down. He has seen her hoping for once and all of this is breaking her down, again.

The words Eira utter intrigued him and had him beyond mad at how low she thinks of his wife. If anything, he knows she was a gem in this world. And just how everyone wants to have a gem to themselves. Everyone was after her.

He doesn't understand the role each of them had played in her life but he wouldn't care anyway. He had been trying very hard to control his anger but to his dismay, it went down in vain. He had been having thoughts he shouldn't such as killing every single person who had played a role to turn her this way.

He had often wondered if she had grown in a much better environment how beautiful she would have turned out. How is that now people had stopped valuing life? Her family brought her in this world and they had done a very poor job at it. They were supposed to provide her, protect her and comfort her however the day he had met them he knows they have a very big hand in her going mute.

It wasn't a surprise he was a doctor placing things together is easier for him. A child first support and protector are their parents and if they failed that leaves a rather big scar on. He had seen cases and 95% of the cases that were of the same reason of not being able to speak or not wanting to was because at the time of nurture they were left by their parents.

It's a natural way and whoever disrupts it there are results of it. A child is connected to their parents and the first words are taught by them, encouraged by them, repeated by them and if they are not- there is destruction.

She throws the paperback down sighing massaging her fingers on the side of her pounding her when her husband holds her hand drawing comforting circle on it.

"Is it bad?". He asked softly removing her finger placing his own starting to massage

"You don't know?".

"I never drank". He said hurriedly making her chuckle at his bewildered expression

"Yes, it's bad because the alcohol was strong". She replied shrugging then she turns to Laith, "Like I said before this is not the right information. Nothing in here is enough to take him down instead this will surely take you down".

"But I don't understand". Laith said confused, "I have even used my contact underground still it's not right?".

She snickers, "You mean the underground they are the boss of?".

"Shit". Laith said brushing his hair frustrated, "What is that we should do?".

"Let's play guess". She said holding her husband hand-making her sit beside him, "How much did you find about me while you were searching?".

"I didn't get anything besides your name and that you were an amazing lawyer. It's like there is no record of your birth, age or anything. As if you-". Laith explained

"As if I never existed". She completed his words shaking her head, "That is because I am not supposed to exist".

"Then how?. I am sure as much as you have told me about everything. They wouldn't have let you live. Then how?". Laith asked

"Maybe because someone wanted me alive". She said shrugging

"Why weren't you supposed to live?". Her husband asked upset

She can understand his emotions. As she has become a part of his world and centre of everything that he does now hearing this causes him distress to think that she might have not even lived.

Death is not that easy.

"Have you watched Jurassic park?". She asked and they nodded, "Do you know that the dinosaurs weren't supposed to be alive in this century yet someone disrupts the chain and create them creating an imbalance in the world. That is why those dinosaurs don't mix well with today's world and people hence they fight and attack back. It's not because the dinosaurs are evil but because they weren't for this world. They had their time to exist and when they were forcefully placed in today time they have no choice but to fight".

"So, you existing means that you will destroy?". Laith asked

"I wish it was that simple. I wasn't supposed to exist and now that I am, I wished for death at every step that I took and every breath that I breathe. Until she provoked me so now I will be the dinosaur that will either kill them all or be killed in the process". She said darkly as the demon inside of her begs to be unleashed, "Let me be very clear, if you ever and I mean ever turn your back on me or that I found that you choose their side at any point. No matter where you hide I will kill you without any mercy".

"I will be by your side". Laith promised

She chuckles bitterly, "Easier said than done. Know that this fight will take sacrifice not just of things but of lives and you have to be strong enough to fight this force or you will be taken by this force".

Laith nodded, "What do we do?".

"It's simple. Don't look at his big crime because as big as they are he had worked extremely well to hide them. Instead, look at the small crime because those small ones can act as a perfect way to unlock his beast". She said looking through the papers,"Ayaan is not as bad as his older brother (her ex-husband- Ibrahim)but he does follow along some in his sick steps. But, he is impulsive about things and if we shake the right point, he will act. That's is the perfect time for us so be sure you don't miss it. Since your friend (Eira) knows I am alive and well she will inform him that means that he will be prepared and probably one of these days he will appear in front of us. Be prepared for everything worse because when that man comes nothing good ever come with him".

"What is your story?". Laith asked cautiously

"Where's the fun if you found it already?". She asked chuckling dryly, "Having known mine story will cause everything to stir so it's best that I stay in hiding as long as possible".

"But, what exactly-". Laith started

Her eyes hardened, "I will not speak about my story. When the time comes and I have enough proofs I will show you my story. I will not use words just to have my life on display to be rejected".

Her husband holds her hand tightly in his, "We won't reject anything you say".

"That's bold even for you. I know you care, Rayyan. Trust me, I do. However when your lifelong friend is against someone you barely know for a year, the things you have seen me doing. I don't think your trust will last that long". She said smiling even though she had just said something to break their hearts

Trust is a very fragile thing in this world. Some people trust easily while others just never do that. It's just about nature. However, trust can vary from person and with which person is in question.

"I will call some people who will have some of the proofs. What your first task will be is to find where exactly your little friend got famous, had money and fame?". She smirks, "It's going to be very interesting".

The day ended but not their thoughts.

He wrapped his arms around her pulling her sleeping body towards himself and she places her head on his chest like every night. It was hard to control his emotions and he does admire her to be able to do that. It's no mystery that those people have caused her grave pain however she hasn't done as much as they have done to her.

He doesn't know what but he does know that she was his woman. He had never felt a pull such strong towards anyone and to be able to have such a strong woman with him is an utter blessing he will forever remain grateful for.

He knows he was in love with this woman perhaps her trying to fight back must have caused the first sparks but he had fallen all over again when he had married her. Each day, he wishes to be near her, cherish her and to tell her just how much she means to him.

But deep down he knows, she knows exactly what he feels. Those times of the night they would look into each other eyes not saying a word as their eyes speak volumes about their feelings.

He knows, she knows.

She was never the way she was now when he looks at her. She was always walking lost in the midst of chaos around her that shakes the world, not her existence. Her eyes were always these cold icy pairs that he had never seen in his living years on earth. Anyone with a heart could probably look at her once and know that she had been defeated plenty of times for her to realise that her living wasn't worth it.

That she was dead already it was just her body that she was waiting to die.

But, these past few months that he had seen her. She started speaking to him about things such as her new favourite things she started to experience for the first time. She asked him a question and some so innocent that he wondered how come she doesn't even know those and some so hard that he wished she never needs to know them.

Her appearance used to be unbothered with her wearing whatever that she found because those clothes were nothing. Clothes are somehow the symbol of protecting oneself however her self was ripped through her hands that she knows those mere clothes cannot save it.

Now she wears a new range of clothes, she had pleaded him to come with her to buy and she really did buy everything he had said she would look good in or barely even passed a smile on it. It was safe to say that the first time he had seen her in a beautiful light pink dress that one morning he felt ill watching her come down the stairs had him feel like his heart would burst any moment because she looks the epitome of beauty and innocence combined.

That was also the day he had fallen for her again when she raises her head looking at him and the full-blown smile on her plump red lips that had his heart flutter in his chest.

He had felt love then and he felt it in every moment he spend with her.

She hadn't had nightmares in a while neither she did anything that would scare him for her life. She was actually living her life as a beautiful woman who was loved and blossom in that love. She was speaking about dreams and hope that he wanted so hard to protect.

Will his love be able to fight everything that was coming?

Day after day, he had seen her walking out of her shell spreading her wings and the way she does that so gracefully had his heart. She was a butterfly that was starting all over again to be born knowing that death awaits just a little away yet they come back each time. Her wings were just as beautiful as a butterfly and it was as exciting to look at as a real butterfly because they both have their own significance in a person life and she was the most significant person in his life.

Their relationship wasn't a simple one with only the normal romantic relationship between couples, no, theirs was formed on the hope from one another and the rope that tied them together would either help them survive,

Or kill them.

He knows that even if a day comes where he was to lose her it would be better for him to leave along with her instead of staying behind to know that he had lost the one person he had promised with his life to protect. To know that he won't be able to hold her, love her and be with her ever will not allow him to survive much longer.

He might be a strong man and he will be one for her sake. However, he was weak and that moment that had broken her before was her and the moment that was most likely to break him again is also her. In the previous case, she managed to build him back without many words but her mere presence and if it wasn't there in future no one will be able to collect his broken pieces until they truly disappear.

Perhaps she had collected her broken pieces trying to save them all this while to place them in front of someone who can pick them for her and join them together.

Possibly they both had their broken pieces on the ground and they build themselves back however not by placing each of their own broken pieces instead of taking the piece of one another and placing in themselves.

They made their own puzzle from different pieces of one another.

One week later:

"Would you like to have some coffee?". He asked from the kitchen when he heard her soft steps coming downstairs

A moment later she appears in front of him with a smile and the sunlight falling onto her wet hair making her shine underneath it.

"Yes, please. You know how much I love the coffee you make". She said softly sitting on the chair watching him intently which made him gulp as the feelings inside of him intensify

"I know you love it. I wonder if we were to be born again would you love the coffee I make as much as you do now?". He asked as he gets busy in preparing her coffee

"Hopefully". She said smiling as she observes him

She knows he is always considerate towards her and the way he is focused to make her coffee pouring all of his love into it had her heart flutters. It is in these past months that she had started to feel her heartbeat and not heartache in pain and fear. Whenever she is around her man she feels herself drifting in a beautiful world that held no pain, suffering or fear. All it had was them, their love and their happiness.

She had fallen in love with him.

She had started to do things that a woman her age would have been doing in normal situations. Even if it wasn't ideal times she loves watching him smile at her whenever she takes a step forward and the times he would hold her as if she was his own life. His nonsense ranting starts to make her day lighter and she looks at the door all day for him to return to her so she can have one of his hugs. She always do runs towards him the minute he walks inside the house falling into his embrace. She fights all day after he leaves with her demons- she usually used to give up- however she starts to fight them and just like the person who had won a war and return home to come to their loved ones, she goes to him.

She had started to live again, dream again and finally to love someone with her everything.

Laith enters inside throwing an envelope in front of her angrily breaking her perfect moment.

"I cannot believe this. Tell me it's not true?. Tell me". Laith yelled angrily brushing his hand through his hair

In instant, her husband was in front of her as her shield and armour.

"Calm down because if you dare to disrespect or harm her in any way I will forget you are my friend". He yelled glaring at his old long friend

He would sacrifice anyone for her even himself.

"Do you know what I found?". Laith asked challenging

"What?". He asked as anger burns within him

"That your wife was the reason Eira was able to reach all these heights. All this fame, money and power Eira owns isn't hers instead it was given to her because of your wife. It was because your wife won her cases that Eira got her powers". Laith yelled breaking down