VENGEANCE

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"Worry about your family and their marriages, you sold away your sisters for money. Don't teach me values." Raheem spoke, each word filled with rage. "And as for my sister's marriage, watch me get her married to an honourable man from our circle.You do not need to worry about it!"

"Whatever helps you sleep at night, man" Khizr scoffed, glaring back at him. Clearly he didn't like the comments Raheem made about his sisters.

'Such a hypocrite.' Amal rolled her eyes at his words.

"Khizr!" Amal heard yet another familiar voice, she looked up to see a concerned Yazid rushing towards Khizr. Raheem rolled his eyes at them, before telling Rania and Amal to leave the scene.

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"Kya zarurat rhi itna tamasha banaane ki Raheem?" Rania spoke quietly, stuffing outside the window.
[What was the need for this unnecessary drama, Raheem?]

Raheem frowned at her words as he spoke,"Sorry? Come again?"

Rania stayed quiet when she noticed the anger in his voice, not wanting to enrage him further."He was talking shit about my family to my face and you expected me to stay quiet?" Raheem continued, glaring at his wife. He was shocked at her acting oblivious all of a sudden, staring at him as if he was the one who was to blame.

"Bhai, Calm down. Why are you taking Khizr's anger out on Bhabi?"Amal interrupted, as she felt the tension in the room increasing.

The whole ride back home was spent with an awkward tension in the car, no one bothered speaking. As soon as Raheem parked the car, he got out and left. Amal tried calling him out but it was too late, he had already entered the house.

"Don't bother, he's not going to listen when angry. Stop worrying, and get some sleep!" Rania assured Amal with a smile as they walked inside.

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"Amal, don't you think everything is so obvious?" Hooriya questioned Amal, who stared back confused.

"What do you mean?" she questioned.

"The two of you can't be this naive!" Hooriya said, adding to Amal's confusion.

"Amal, don't get angry but I think Rania has a lot to do with whatever happened to you." Hooriya tried putting her point forward. "Let me explain, whatever happened to you can not be possible without someone who is inside this house helping Khizr. I mean, you barely leave the house and before this, only a few people even knew Raheem had a sister.How can Khizr know you especially since you wear a niqab? He can't even identify your face!"

"I feel like it's an inside job too. Not saying Rania is the one who did this, but she is definitely from the suspects." Ayra nodded, agreeing with Hooriya.

"I think you two are being too pessimistic.I mean, just because Rania is friends with Dina, it doesn't mean she's on Khizr's side.Even Dina herself really helped me when I was there."

"We're not being pessimistic, you're being overly optimistic! Think about it Amal, it all worked out so perfectly. They abducted you in a way, everyone didn't suspect anything bad until night came and you weren't around." Ayza gave her two cents in this conversation.

"You and Hoor are the same height, both covered head to toe with only eyes showing. You both were together in college that day, Why didn't they follow and kidnap her instead?" Ayra said.

"The only distinction I can recall, from that day, is Rania called you beforehand!" Ayza spoke after some time.

"Arham was talking about how your brother didn't want to go out of the country for some reason but Rania was able to convince him to leave!" Hooriya broke another news, which Amal was well aware of but never really paid attention to.