To The Straight Path.

Chapter 73.

They were now in the car on the way to Imaad's house.

As usual he wasn't able to keep his hands to himself and was fondling her hand.

There was a huge smile on her face looking at him, he never failed to tell her how important she is in his life but for her it was so hard to say it out loud and every time she tried to tell it someone would disturb her.

"By the way I forgot to tell you, Imaad have a daughter around 4 years of age. She is so cute you know."

"Really?" She asked excitedly and he nodded with a smile.

"I miss Amber, how do you think she is doing without me?" She asked, looking at him.

"Don't worry sweetheart, she might be doing well." He kissed her wrist trying to distract her a little.

"Anyways why did you named her Amber?" He wanted to ask this for a long time but didn't get the right time.

"She reminded me of you."

"Of me?" He asked in shock.

"Yes, the way you dreamt about having a girl child whose eyes resembled mine, she reminded me of you as we shared the same eye colour and when the granny told me to name her I thought about your sister. I kept it so that I can feel like there is someone in this world for me."

He parked the car and was looking at her with his love filled eyes. She got confused a little but he pulled her closer and hugged her tightly.

"I know you could never say it loud about how much you missed me and maybe I can't either. But I guess those intensity and the way we missed each other resembled both our cases."

She nodded in his embrace silently agreeing that what he was saying is indeed true.

"Umar at times I felt like dying but the fear of facing Allah in here after made me a little sane. If it wasn't the case I would gladly die because your absence was killing me from inside."

For the first time this week she said her heart out, she thought of sharing her pain.

"I went through the same love." He mumbled

They pulled after a few more seconds and he gently kissed at the top of her head.

He started driving again keeping her hand closer to his chest.

"Eira why didn't you fight back with those women? Why did you endure everything?"

"I didn't have the courage."

"Oh c'mon Eira, you would beat the hell out of well trained Mafia men and you would make them unconscious just by those signature punches of yours and you are telling that you didn't have the courage."

She was quiet for a minute looking down at her lap.

"I used to do that carelessly before cause I knew you were there for me if anything goes wrong or that you will protect and support me in my every childish behaviour but the things got changed Umar."

"I had to protect myself for my every behaviour and there was no other place for me to go if they kicked me out from there. Your support wasn't there to give me that assurance that you will handle everything."

"I was terrified to leave that place as I thought they were still waiting for me to kill me or kidnap me again."

Umar froze on his spot, he wasn't able to utter a single word, he felt guilty for all her sufferings when clearly it wasn't his fault.

"I'm sorry Eira I'm extremely sorry about everything that happened."

"Why are you even apologising to me Umar, nothing was your fault in anything that happened."