You office series# 1
"I love her so much, It physically pains me to imagine a life without her, I feel like I won't survive a single second, without her. I feel I am drowning and only she could save me, But here I am, drowning without her, and she'...
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14 AUGUST, 2006. ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN.
I stare at the address written on my phone screen and back at the cottage in front of me.
I look at the lake beside the cottage which gave a complete dreamy look around the place.
Does Manar really lives here or did she choose this place as a hideout for us to meet?
No. She wouldn't do something like that.
But I still got the address of this place from an unknown number which I thought would be Manar. Or...was I mistaken?
I still as a heavy hand clamps down on my shoulder.
I look over my shoulder to see a man dressed in Pathani shalwar kameez, a hard expression on his face. "You must be Mahib."
"I am."
He takes a look of me. "I am Manar's elder brother."
He must be Raza Bhai.
I bring my hand forward. "Salam Bhai."
He looks at my hand and then walks ahead at the cottage entrance. "Get inside, I want to have a talk with you and Manar."
I retreat my hand back. It's alright. I have a long way to cover.
"Manar is here?" I question following him behind.
I was thankful I had left my luggage at Sheher's place before coming here.
He opens the door and motions me to get in.
When I enter inside the drawing room, the smell of damp walls evades my senses. It looks like this cottage wasn't used in a long time.
The French windows facing the drawing room overlooks the lake by the cottage, giving it a peaceful atmosphere.
I stop in front of a couch which was covered in dust. Why would Manar call me here where no one lived?
My senses goes on high alert as I smell something else other than damp walls. Something akin to...kerosene?
"Why—?"
Before I could turn around to ask him I am hit by a force so hard which makes me fall down on the dusted couch.
My ears starts ringing and I hold my hand upto my mouth to see blood on my finger.
I stand on my unsteady legs and dodge his next hit. "I know you are angry...but please, hear me out, I love Man—"
My sentence isn't even completed when I feel him hitting my gut this time with a such a force that my breathing is ceased for a minute.
"Don't you dare say her name." He grabs my hairs. "I made her one promise. One. And she broke it. The moment I knew about your affair, I have been planning to kill you both."
