𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐦 & 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐦

Chapter 14

Pieces of the puzzle were finally falling into place. It all made sense now - Veilwalker had hacked her phone from day one.

She shut her eyes, recalling every moment she had wondered how he always seemed to know what she was saying.

The day she came home after the coma, she picked up her phone - and right then, his text arrived.

Mobile involved.

When she and Dua were on their way to MDA, Yasin Hussain messaged her. The moment she checked her phone, Veilwalker's text followed.

Mobile involved.

And every time she said something aloud during their conversations, he knew. That could only mean one thing...

'Was he able to hear me through my own phone?'

Then she remembered - when his message came after she returned home from the coma, she had looked around, searching for anything. A camera. A hidden device. Anything that could explain how he knew her every move. But there was nothing except... her phone.

'Does that mean he could see me through my mobile too? What? No... That's illogical.'

But little did she know - Veilwalker had tampered with her phone long ago.

And ever since she had broken that phone - there hadn't been a single trace of him. Not a sign. Not a sound. Nothing.

She still remembered it all.

Four years ago, he had made his first appearance - through texts- into her life. She remembered how nervous she had been, so much so that she ended up reporting him to the police.

But he had already thought ahead.

He erased every conversation, every trace of evidence - leaving nothing behind. As if it had all existed only in Erum's imagination.

The police tried to uncover something, anything. But it was all futile. In the end, they believed she had fabricated it all.

She remembered how her position as Chief Representative had been at risk - all because Veilwalker had successfully made everyone believe that she had imagined having a stalker.

To the government, she had begun to seem mentally unstable. And placing the future of an entire Khandan in the hands of someone like that... was far too great a risk.

It took her a great amount of time and effort to make the Higher-ups believe that she was stable, capable, and fully in control of herself. She had to rebuild the trust she never broke - prove her clarity, her strength, her worth.

It took her almost an year.

Every meeting, every speech, every decision she made was under scrutiny. One wrong move, one misplaced word, and it could all fall apart again.

But she held her ground.

After stabilizing everything, she texted him - with finality. She still remembered that one message she sent, which to her marked the conclusion... the end.

But little did she know - for him, it was only the beginning.

"Get out of my life. Please."

After that, his replies stopped.

Until...

On the 6th Friendship Anniversary of Erum and her friends - he showed up. In person.
For the first time ever.

That day, Erum had seen someone lurking in the shadows, but she chose to ignore it, not wanting to ruin the moment. That silhouette was none other than her stalker - Veilwalker.