The dark lane was a perfect loading area....thought Nazril to himself as he reversed his covered pick up truck at the back of the several shophouses. A plan which he had blueprinted in his mind and craft them in his thoughts. He bring out his face mask and put it on....followed by his men.
"I don't understand why Ilhan was not involved in this." asked Harith who was one of Ilhan's man.
"Cause he screws up....many times...and Dante was unpleased with that." replies Shane another one of Ilhan's dogs. "Infact he had other mission of his own....which he refused to mention to any of us."
Nazril remain silence as he had his eyes and mind focus off the incoming van. He realised that was the van, which carried the grass and cannabies......the goods which has been unknowingly taken from Dante's territory. Nazril saw there were only two men inside the van.....and he was unpleased with these as he expected more of Dante's rival men. "Prepared yourself...we coming in." instrust Nazril as he held his gun and place them at the back of his pocket. And soon, Nazril and his man got off from their truck and swiftly headed towards the red van.
"How you are doing mate?" asked Nazril towards one of the men who was standing outside the red van and without second thoughts he hit him hard with his gun until the men fell unconscious.
The driver soon realised his men has been hit, step out from his vehicle..but he was held by Nazril's tribe mate and was beaten up to the core...until he too lost unconscious lying on the unlevel ground. "Quick, we have got not much time." utters Nazril as he forcefully opens the back of the van and instruct his men to upload the drugs into their pick up truck.
"Adam, we can always come back tomorrow and clear up some of the unwanted things here." exclaimed Zaharah as she saw Adam was busy carrying the big black garbage bag which was fill with his oil paint brushes and palates.
"I just place them at the back of the shop." cried Adam. "Why don't both of you wait for me in the car...all right." exclaimed Adam as he walk towards the back of his shop and headed towards it's door, while Zaharah after locking Adam's Eye...walk towards their car which was parked right infront of their shop..bringing sleepy Aleeya along.
As Adam was placing the big garbage bag into the rubbish bin, suddenly he heard some shoutings and rough voices....at the other corner of his shop. Out of curiousity, Adam crank his neck and too a peep, and he was shocked as he saw two bodies was lying unconscious, not knowing whether, they were dead or alife....and then he saw several masked man was busy uploading something into their truck. Fear, ran down Adam's spine as he took few steps away..however unknowingly, he had accidently knock agaisnt the rubbish bin and cause some distant noise.
"Hey, someone saw us!" yelled Shane. "Come on, let's get him."
"Just let it go all right...it could be cat or something." cried Nazril. But it was too late, his man had jumped back into their truck and leave him with no other choice but to follow in the pursuit. Shane however had already start the engine of their truck, just in the nick of time before Nazril had managed to get himself inside it.
Zaharah was pinning the broach on her veil, while she awaits for Adam's arrival. Aleeya has already fallen asleep at the back seat of their car. The street lamp flickers occasionally...a rare sight which she had ever set her eyes upon of that town...cause she knew this is an urban area, therefore, technical fault should not be occurring in the first place. And then as she was about to call Aden on her mobile phone, suddenly she saw Adam was running towards their car, looking frantic and anxious. Adam gets in the car and without hesitation, he turns on the engine and quickly drove away from that spot in such a speedy motion.
"Adam, what's the rush?" asked Zaharah as she frown and then, from the rear mirror she saw a grey pick up truck was following close behind them. Adam saw the incoming truck too....and this time he pressed on the accelerator harder as he drove in such a high speed...waking Aleeya's up from her dream.
"Dad, what's going on?" asked Aleeya as she blinks her eyes several times and was shocked when she feel their car was zooming in such a speed.
"No matter what happens, none of you should ever step out from this car all right." exclaimed Adam anxiously, and from the sight of the rear mirror, he knew that truck was not going to leave them alone. Aleeya turn back to face the incoming truck, and from the front view of that truck she saw a masked man was driving the truck and from the look of it....he seems to be persistent with his action.
"Dad, who are those people and why are they chasing us?" asked Aleeya frantically.
Zaharah begins to panic too...as she prays hard for those thugs, to just forsake their mission, and let Adam continue with their journey in peace. But it seems the otherwise, when suddenly, the truck drove close enough at the edge of Adam's car, and hit towards one of it's side. Adam loose control of the steering and cause his car to speed up the kerb of the concrete payment..slamming hard against the street lamp post.
"Adam.."cried Zaharah weakly as her trembling hands tries to reach towards Adam's motionless body. She felt a great sense of relief, after she heard the frantic cough of her husband as she knew, Adam was all right. "Aleeya...baby." calls Zaharah, however she just could not move any of her limbs as she tries to turn to face her beloved daughter. From the sense of it, Zaharah knew, her head was bleeding profusely, as her veil was soaked from he warm blood which was gushing out from her temple of her head.
"Mum...dad." moan Aleeya as she tries to regain back her position, as she was flung hard towards the side of the door. Aleeya' trembles as she forcefully tries to regain back her strength, bringing both of her hands towards the front seat of her mother's.
"Zaharah...Oh God...! Zaharah hang on..I will call the paramedics." utters Adam as he unfasten his seat belt and came closer towards Zaharah. Adam heart feels shudders with heavy emotions, as he saw, Zaharah had her view focus only towards the flickering of the light of the crashed lamp post. Adam held on towards Zaharah close to him with tears in his eyes...."Come on baby, don't give up on me." cried Adam frantically.
"Mum!" cries Aleeya as she realised her mother remains motionless as her breathing becomes more shallow...but the gushing of her blood increases...and soon, Zaharah nose starts to bleed.
Suddenly, they heard voices that seems to be coming nearer towards their car. "Aleeya, stay down. And no matter whatever happens..do not get out from this car...!" cried Adam. Aleeya follows her father's words, as she hides at the back of the seat in tears. With one of her hands, still holding on to her mother. From her hideout, she could heard the front door of their vehicle has been forcefully opened, and she knew her father has been taken. Aleeya took a peep from the front view as she saw her father was fighting and defending himself against their blows. Aleeya figure out, there were only three of them....with a face mask on them. However, she sense something was amiss as she saw, her father was hit hard by a pole against the back of his neck. And then two of the men leave her father...with one of them still staying behind. Aleeya heart ran fast.....as she clench both of her fists. From the distant view, she knew..her father was in trouble, he seems to lose his sight....as he misses his punches but was cruelly kick and hit instead.
"Daddy!" cried Aleeya as her fear had transformed to anger. She step out from the car and yelled towards them. "Hey, leave my father alone."
Adam searched frantically after hearing that voice, his vision had becomes bleak and darkness was all that he could see.....he knew it was his fate to be blind again. "Aleeya!" Adam whispered anxiously as he knew, his daughter was running towards him. And soon he felt he was grip and from that scent...it was Aleeya.
"How sweet, daddy's girl to the rescue.!" laughed Shane as he came forward towards them and forcefully grip Aleeya from Adam's arm.
"Keep your hands off her." yelled Adam as he managed to pull her back towards his side.
"Shane, just leave them alone all right.....let's go..we do not want Dante to wait for us." cried a voice from the back of the truck.
"We can have some fun here..damn it.." exclaimed Shane as he still had his sickening eyes on Aleeya. And without warning, he kick Adam hard on his chest...sending him sprawling on his knees towards the ground.
"Have mercy on us please!" pleads Aleeya as she held on to her father with all her might. Suddenly, she felt her hair was roughly tugged as she was pulled away from her father's grip.
"Aleeya," cried Adam frantically.
Aleeya, was quick enough to get Shane grip away from her as she stood on her guide and was ready for a fight...to defend her father and herself. Shane laughed mockingly, as he begins to throw some punches at her...but Aleeya was fast enough to avoid them...but Shane received few surprising blows instead.
"Shane....just leave them alone..come on..!" yelled that voice again.
"I'm not going to leave this bitch...!" he yelled again and without warning he roughly kick the sand of the ground towards Aleeya's face. Aleeya begins to frantic...as her sight get's blurred due to the rough sand entering her eyes. Shane smile with satisfaction, as he kick her hard on her tummy and cause her to fall on her knees. Aleeya held on to her injured abdomen as the pain begins to get on her..causing her to lost her focus. Suddenly, she was grip and she knew it was her father.
"Aleeya." cries Adam helplessly. Shane came back towards them...as he roughly, grab Aleeya away from her father. "Leave her alone...you son of a bitch." screamed Adam.
To their horror, Shane drew out his gun from the back of his pocket and points it towards Adam's forehead.
"Daddy..!" cries Aleeya...frantically as she can't bear to see her father got hurt by this merciless man.
"Shane...what the shit are you doing man?" cried that voice as he rushed out from the back of his truck followed by the rest of his men. Aleeya realised they were all having their face mask on. The one from behind the truck, pulls Shane away from Adam...however he was still obstinate as he continues to point his gun towards her father. "Come on..!" said the men again.
Aleeya, was holding on to her father with all her might, as tears begins to stream down from her eyes...and then she steal a glimpse towards the other men....cause that voice.... seems to drawn her curiosity towards it...suddenly she caught those eyes behind that mask...greyish blue intense stared and without another second, she had her sight towards his right arm...prominent tattoo. Aleeya shakes her head in disgusts and disbelieved with what she had saw and knew....Thaqif was one of them.
Shane was not letting them off that easy, as he still persist with his demand of Aleeya as he roughly pulls her close towards him.
"Get your hands of her!" yelled Adam as he stood up....but in a split second, a gun shot was heard.
"Daddy..!" screamed Aleeya as she saw Adam was merciless shot at his abdomen. "No..daddy no." cried Aleeya frantically as she rushed back towards Adam and held his head onto her lap.
Suddenly another gun shot was heard, and to Aleeya's horror...Thaqif had shot Shane on the temple of his head. "Hey, we've got a rat!" cried the other few men, as they step out from their truck and begins to shoot their weapons towards Thaqif.....Thaqif was quick enough to aim his target and shot....killing all of them in instant. Aleeya...still holding on to her father in her lap as she shut her eyes...not wanting to see all this horrific violence happening right in front of her.
After Thaqif felt certain all of the thugs has been killed, he rushed towards Aleeya while removing his mask off from his head. From his view, he knew Adam's has been badly injured due to the gunshot wound. He stoop down as he tries to ease Adam's and Aleeya's plight...by placing his hands onto Adam's leg.
"Don't touch my father!" yelled Aleeya furiously as she stared intensely towards Thaqif..with so much hatred and anger in her eyes. Thaqif held back his hands...with tears of regrets and guilt that steam from his eyes.
"We have two causalities...a victim with gunshot wound and another a traffic car accident." exclaimed Thaqif on his mobile phone. "Send in the medics now...!" utters Thaqif as he listen further conversation from his mobile phone. "Just come and get us." trails Thaqif solemnly as he look sorrowfully towards Aleeya, who seems to be still hanging on to her father.
"Aleeya, go to your mum now." whispered Adam as his voice quiver due to the pain. Aleeya, insists to stay on with her father. "Aleeya, go to her now.." exclaimed Adam again. Aleeya had no other choice but to comply to her father's words..as she gently place his head onto the concrete pavement....as she ran towards their crashed vehicle and open the front seat on her mother's side.
"Mum." cried Aleeya softly.....but that motionless breathing and cold hands....she knew her mother was gone. "Mummy.." whispered Aleeya as she held on to her mother close to her chest. Aleeya tries to regain back her emotion, as she gently reposition her mother back towards her seat. As she stood up and wipe the heartbroken tears off from her eyes....she ran back to her father..and from the distant , she could hear the sirens of the ambulance and some police vehicle coming closer towards them. She stoop down on her knees as she held back her father in her lap.
"Dad, mum is okay...you hang on all right." wept Aleeya as she place her hand onto her father's abdomen, as she tries to suppressed the bleeding. Adam smile lovingly towards her.....a shudder, anguish, fear all came inside Aleeya's thoughts and mind.....half her spirit was already gone...and she prays hard for the other half to stay.
"Glad tidings ..the taste of the sweetness honey, innocent cries of unspoken temptation craving for that one desire....! The alluring sweetness honey....tempting me....drowning me...toring my innocent...erasing the trust which I had on you...Father love, which was my one crave desire.....was interprete in such unforgivable deeds...it was not the love which...could ease my desire...but pain, unspoken and unreveal shame which was laid on to me." Aden place back the bookmark and close Zhorif's journal....so many unspoken pain and trauma...was deeply and secretly written in this journal.
"How could a father got the heart to hurt his own son?" thought Aden to himself.
"Zhorif's silent cry of unspoken pain....was clearly written in here. Does Nisrin knew about this too?" thought Aden to himself. Aden place back the journal on the coffee table as he cover his face with both of his palm. And then he turns his attention towards Maya who was sleeping on the couch of their living room. Probably, she's tired after her long reading of the latest novel which Aden had present her as another of his special gift to her. Aden was about to lay on the carpeted floor as he cover himself with a blanket when suddenly his mobile phone rang.
Aden and Maya quicken their pace as they both rushes towards the emergency department and then, there they saw Aleeya was standing against the glass panel which link to the observation room...as she peers her sight towards it.
"Aleeya.!' cries Aden as he came closer towards his sister.
"Aden, mummy is gone..!" wept Aleeya tearfully. Aden stood froze on the ground with his eyes wide open in disbelieve. And then he brings his sister close to him and held her in his arms. "They are trying to safe daddy now..." cries Aleeya beneath Aden's embrace. Maya came forward as she held her hands onto Aleeya's shoulder. And soon Zaki and Nadia arrived as they walk closer towards them. Zaki knew...Zaharah is gone..after he received that call from Thaqif..and then he slowly walk towards the glass panel...and there he saw his brother was fighting for his life...as few doctors and nurses were attending to him. Zaki clench his fist hard by his side....the fear of losing Adam his brother.....his best friend.....is such a great blow to him. Tears wells up in his hazel brown eyes as he let them fall on his face. "Adam." he whispered and then he begins to recite some prayers. Soon, the doctors and nurses stop abruptly as they slowly dispersed away from Adam..leaving only two nurses with him.
"I'm sorry....he request for his immediate family right now." utters the doctor as he step out from the observation room and came forward towards them. Zaki, Aden and Aleeya, enters the room....the solitude and the sheer moment of remote...was soon been replace by tears and chants of prayers. All of them, came close towards Adam's bed...as Adam breathing becomes deep but shallow.
"Hey bro. I'm here with you...so are your kids." exclaimed Zaki as he could not contain his sadness anymore.
"Zaharah." quivered Adam.
Zaki hung his head low....as he cries tearfully...and then he brings his face closer towards Adam and gently kisses his forehead. Zaki knew....he is losing his brother.
"Dad.." cries Aden with tears in his eyes.
"My son...I can't see you any more...let me touch you." utters Adam. Aden gently brings his father's hand close towards his cheeks. Upon the warmness of his son's face...Adam smile contently. "Promised, that you will stay on with this family." whispered Adam.
"I promised dad...I will." utters Aden as he kisses his father's hand.
"Aleeya." called Adam lovingly towards his daughter....as the vision of his little girl came into his mind.
Aleeya stay close to her father as she lays her head gently on his chest. "Daddy, you will be okay...you will still be there for me...and always rock me in your arms until I've fallen asleep." cries Aleeya as she whimpers and choke on few of her words.
Adam's trembling hands gently caress his daughter's hair. "I will always be here for you Aleeya...nnd will constantly guide you...spiritually." utters Adam. The warm touch of her father's hand on her hair and her back, was definately the potion for her broken heart....however his caress gradually becomes weaker and slower and soon it stops. Aleeya buries herself tearfully onto her father's chest...cause she knew..her father has gone. "Daddy." wept Aleeya. "Daddy, you cant' leave me...come back." cries Aleeya frantically. Zaki could not contain his emotion any more.....as he look at Aden and Aleeya's state. Zaki gently brings Aleeya away from Adam's body, and pulls her close to him as he embrace her tearfully. Aden knew...he need to put a brave front in front of his sister...he just could not afford to break down in front of them....losing his mum and his father in a night was such a painful ...torturous plight...but he have to fight to stay strong for Aleeya.
The burial ceremony took place early morning the very next day. The drizzling of the colourless rain..that fall gently from the vast skies..together with the streaming tears of their eyes...staging the moment to be stagnant. Aden held on to his sister, as she seems to be in a shocked and in a sorrowful state. After the burial was finally over, with some chanting of prayers and simple speech by Aden and Zaki....soon everyone headed back towards their vehicle...all with their mind on their own set of destinations.
Back at their home, it seems the clock and the surroundings of their home just stood still....the emptiness without Zaharah's and Adam's voices and laughter...was such an abundance lost. Aden stay in his father's working room as he stared towards all of his father's magnificent art pieces with tears in his eyes.
"Aleeya, please forgive me...I know.. I should not have kept you in the dark about me being an undercover cop. I never expected things will turn out this way." pleads Thaqif as he tries to fight back his tears of guilt.
"I don't give a damn shit about what you are doing right now!" yelled Aleeya. As she stared hard towards Thaqif with full of hatred and anger written in her eyes.
"Aleeya, please forgive me.." cries Thaqif with guilt and remorsefulness.
"Our relationship.....ends here." utters Aleeya as she walks away from his side and enters her mother's room and close the door behind her.
Thaqif...close his face with both of his hands as he just could not imagined, this relationship which he had been fighting and trying to salvage comes to an end in such a tragic manner...due to his own wrongdoing.
"Thaqif.....give her time...all right." utters Aden as he tapped on his shoulder. "You need your rest too...go back home now....and clear your thoughts." continues Aden calmly, as he looks emphatically towards his brother..as he felt...Thaqif was not solely to be blame on this....the chapter has been written....the story was to be played this way. Nobody knew...and nobody could ever foresee what's the next script will be written and place on their shoulder...cause only God' Almighty does it all with a cause....a Divine undisclosed secret.
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