She enters the bakery with him following behind her.

"I will leave you here then". He said looking at his watch, "Since people are looking for trouble coming in here, I am leaving my two guards for you".

She looks at the two muscular men behind him nodding as he went back to his car driving away. She looks at her phone as her eyes filled with tears because the conversation she had early morning was the worse ever.

She continued to work when she looks at his guards grinning as she calls them over.

He walks inside her bakery halting when he looks at the view in front of him. He finds both his guard baking something along with her and he purse his lips at how nervous those two men looks in front of her instruction.

He leans on the door looking at them laughing and working together as the place the mixture in the oven.

"You are here". She said smiling as she finds him standing behind them

"I am". He said smiling because whenever she smiles, he finds it precious

"Your hair looks good". She said giggling and he couldn't ever get use to this side of her

He rolls his eyes, "Do you have any idea how people looked at me whole day?. They were all laughing at me. How did you even do it?".

She laughs and so did his guards who he glares at making them stop.

"Why?. You look so good. I always wanted to do this". She said grinning mischievously, "I told your sister that you scared me and I want to do something so she told she has a hairspray with her. We used it on you while you were asleep".

He shakes his head continue to watch her giggling as she explains the plan and everything to his guards who seem fond of her. Then again, it was hard not being fond of someone adorable.

"What did you do to my guards?". He asked walking closer as his guards remove the apron moving away

"They baked". She said excitedly, "Do you want to look at it?".

"Is it done?". He asked smiling as he watches her excitement

She shakes her head, "Not yet. We just placed it in. Do you want to decorate your cakes?".

His guards shake their head so she spoke again, "I will do it then you can take them home".

She waited for the cake to be done before she carefully takes them out, decorating them and placing them in a bag for them.

"Here you go". She said smiling as she gives them the cakes

Just then the door opened with a loud bang and in walked her older brother angrily. She moves back scared of being hit again when her brother held her hand pulling her.

"What do you think you are doing here?". Her brother asked angrily, "Is he the man you are--".

Before her brother can complete his sentence she pushed his hand away slapping him hard.

"Don't you dare accuse of you things I have never done". She snapped feeling the frustration of all those times she wasn't able to speak before, "You are the worse brother anyone can ever have".

"He is your brother?". He asked confused as he looked between them

Her brother took threatening steps towards her and he pushed her brother harder as he falls on the table groaning in pain.

"No". She said stopping him from hitting her brother more, "I don't want you to dirty your hand because of him".

"You are a characterless woman and you are me calling dirty?". Her brother said trying to stand up but he pushed him down punching him

"Say another word and I might just kill you here". He warned

"You don't even know her half as much as I do". Her brother screamed standing up only for him to push him as he falls on the table breaking it cursing in pain

"Now you must know how I felt when you hit me that night". She said harshly when she saw her brother holding his head, "If I throw you around for the whole night, that wouldn't be enough to show you how I felt all that time you did the same to me".

"You deserved it". Her brother snapped and he steps forward only for her to stop him

"You don't know what I went through and instead of protecting your sister, you made your sister an open target for every single person to hit at". She screamed angrily as tears roll down her face, "You made a mockery out of my suffering and everything that I endured for so long".

"You--". Her brother started

She shakes her head glaring at him, "I might not be able to break the blood bond we share, but as of now you are no brother of mine. No one in this world deserves a cowardly brother like you and I have had enough of you".

Her brother growled marching towards her when he punched him stopping his advances.

"Now you will know what fighting someone who can fight you head-on must feel like". He snarled, "You are used to hitting on a woman and feeling like you are a real man when all you are a filth in a human body that deserves to be in the trash".

"Don't worry. He is going there". She said as they turn to her, "I called the police".

"W-What?". Her brother said scared, "No, you can't do that. I am your brother".

She looks at him disgusted, "The one who called me names and hit me on every chance he had. No, you are certainly not my brother because brother protect their sisters and you never did".

Just then the police came in looking over the case and Hamza uses his reference to get the case through smoothly.

"You shouldn't have done that". She said sitting on the chair holding her head as she feels the headache forming

"I should". He said making her look at him, "Those people abused their power when they had a chance why can't we abuse a little power when we have a chance to set things right?".

She nodded meekly trying to push away the guilt she felt in her heart. She knows the guilt isn't something she wanted to feel, it was something embedded inside of her by everyone. Whenever a woman speaks for herself and her rights, she is forced to be guilty for it hence so many women never speak for themselves.

"What happened this morning?". He asked looking at her tensed face

She clenched her hand tightly, "He called".

His eyes widen, "Shah Nawaz?. He called you?. Why?".

Her breathing quicken, "He told me that I should marry him again".

He felt his heartache, "What?".

She looks at him with the sadness lacing her eyes, "He told me that I should marry you and then get a divorce to marry him again".

He banged his hand on the table startling her, "This is wrong. This is not how halala works".

She nodded taking a deep breath, "I know. I know marrying someone with the thoughts of getting a divorce is forbidden and a sin".

"What did you say?. What do you know?". He asked desperately

"I know that the intention is what counts in everything we do and people have made a joke of this serious matter. It is forbidden if it's done intentionally and to marry someone even if we are intimate with our partner, the intention is what matters in the end". She paused, "He came after me with my weakness".

"What--". He started when the door opened and a few more people walked in

"That's my family". She mumbles to him as she stands beside him

Her parents were the one who came towards her and she moved back.

"What do you think you are doing?". Her father barked raged, "Who gave you the right to do that to your brother?".

"Who gave him the right to do all that he did to me?". She asked looking right in her father's eyes which she had never done, "Who gave you all the right to do what you did?".

"Don't raise your voice at your parents". Her father said angrily

"And you can do everything. Why?. Because you are always right?. Why don't you take a step back and look at what you have done. Maybe, just maybe you will see how wrong you are". She said as her throat clogged as she chokes down her whimper

Her mother holds her hand crying as she pleaded, "You cannot do that to your brother. This is wrong. He is your brother".

She looks at her mother as tears finally roll down her face, "Why?. Why didn't you protect me like this?. She paused as she pulls her hand away, "Why didn't you ask him to stop?. Why didn't you tell him it was wrong?. WHY?".

She wanted to scream at everyone for everything they have done.

"Was I that sinful?". She asked as she took a stumbling step back, "What have I done so wrong to live this miserably?. You married me to that man when I wanted to run this bakery at the age of 19. You pushed me into that rich house asking me to do everything they said and I did. Look where I am today?. You never even asked me what I lost in that house that made me like this".

She laughs dryly as pain course through her heart stabbing it, "YOU ALL BLAMED ME. For what?. For escaping that place before they could kill me?. If you got my dead body back, that would make you happy, right?".

"Please don't do this". Her brother wife pleaded

She looks at her, "You are the one who taught him how sinful I am. How he needs to beat me to keep me in control and take my money from me for me to not do something worse. I haven't even returned what you have done to me. Why must I stop?".

"Is this revenge for you?". Her second oldest brother asked

She looks at her brother with tears in her eyes, "This is my right that you all snatched from me".

She turned around as the pleaded her but his guards pushed them out of the bakery and stands outside so no one came back in.

She wrapped her hands around herself tightly as she started to cry for every wound and for every lost she had to go through.

"This is the place you loved". He said softly

She nodded, "I interhited it from my grandfather after he died when I was about 16. I used to come here with him and bake and it became my favourite thing to do. When I was married in his family, they made me leave this and my education, compensated me with tons of money. They took my dream/education away and gave me luxuries I never asked for. They said a woman in their house never works outside and especially not in a lowly bakery and their women doesn't need to study because their men earn enough".

"How did you managed to keep it?". He asked confused

"That was the least I asked from them. To make sure this place stays here". She said looking around, "I wanted to do so much here and I had so many dreams and they took them all away".

"We have to close this bakery". He said hesitating, "Those people will come after you so you need to be in a safer place".

She nodded, "But this place will stay, right?".

"I will make sure it does". He said smiling lightly, "What is that you are planning to do to him?".

"He didn't do anything that can be punished by law, at least. I don't have anything to hold him for". She said sighing as she moves to place the bakery things in place before she had to leave, "What I do want is the world to know what he and his family are like. Everyone cursed me, blamed me and called me names. I wasn't supposed to bear all of that because of those people. I want to speak my part even if the world doesn't believe me, I want my children to know the truth".

"How?". He asked helping her with the things

"Video message. I don't want to be on any platform because they will all find faults in my words or support him. I want to send a general video out for everyone to see and know my part". She said picking the broken table pieces but he stopped her doing it instead

"You know you will be attacked after it?". He asked softly worrying about her safety but he knows he will make sure no one reaches near her but mentally he can't be sure

She nodded, "I don't think it will we worse then what I already faced. I just want to take a step for myself and my children to know. So, in life ahead I don't have regrets of not fighting them".

He turns to look at her deep in her thoughts, "What weakness did he came after you to suggest to get back with him?".

She looks at him and he knows the next works will not be something he will like however he had to know what that man still had on her to be so confident in suggesting an absurd idea.

Her eyes felt with the intense pain that he never saw in anyone eyes before as she spoke breaking both their heart, "That I can't be a mother again".

*****

I had a long thinking about the part where I punished her brother. What are your thoughts on it?.

For my part, I know women are never allowed to take such drastic steps, they are thrown in guilt and treated harshly if they try to. But I feel like women stepping back is the reason, these men are becoming worse. Just how anyone else would be treated if they were to hit a woman, how come it's different when it comes to someone in family?.

What are your thoughts!?.

Next is the last chapter:(.