Bound by Threat!

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SMILE! No ways! Though it wasn't a friendly smile, you could see it was forced. "You back Leeanah? Mind if we get going?" Hanzal said. I looked at him dumbfounded and Maria nudged me.

My aunt was outside and said, "Lee, Zahra called and said she couldn't make it and since Hanzala had a meeting here, she asked him to pick you up. Is it okay with you?"

Nah not at all! I looked at Maria and Aadil, hoping if they could help me out but they just stared back at me with a stupid grin. "Leeanah..." My aunt called out. I looked at her and realized she was still waiting for my answer.

"No it's okay he can go on. Actually Aadil promised to drive me back", I smiled at Aadil sweetly. He looked at me with a look which was like hell-no-am-I-driving-you-all-the-way-back-there. I stared at him hard.

He was about to open his mouth but my aunt beat him and said that its late already and by the time he comes back it will be late, so Leeanah stop being stubborn and go on, don't keep this gentleman waiting to long. Gentleman my foot!

I looked up to see Hanzala, who was tapping his foot for quite a long time, so impatient he looked. When he saw me looking at him, he looked at me furiously. I better hurry up I guess.

Hammad came out of nowhere and said, "Go Leeh go! Stop making Hanzala late and nana is on his way home so get going because no one wants you here". Hanzala snickered and I just glared at Hammad.

"Okay... Okay... I'm going with him. Happy?" I said and my aunt nodded. I went to go hug Maria and when I got to Aadil I whispered in his ears, "I will get you back for this". He started laughing and I rolled my eyes. I went to Hammad next and pulled his cheeks hard and he scream. I looked at his cheek and was satisfied by seeing the redness on it and I smirked. He whisper yelled "I hate you" and I said "The feelings mutual kiddo" and walked off to Hanzala's car.

I went to the backseat but he held my hand and took me to the front seat and opened the door for me. I stared at him and just looked. He looked at me, grinned and nearly shoved me in the car.

Okay now I'm scared. I put the seatbelt on, it just made me feel a teeny bit safe (which is quite ridiculous but whatever? What can I do?) I saw him walk to his side of the car and he gave his salaams to my aunt and sat in the car. I looked at my cousins and gave a sad wave as the car drove away.

I closed my eyes immediately, scared as to what Hanzala would say or do. "What happened to poor Leeanah? Is the princess sad?" I heard a mocking voice and tried to ignore him because it was going to be four long hour with him.

The car came to stop and I opened my eyes to see Hanzala getting out of the car and motioned to me with his hands to follow him. I just stared at him wide eyed and he just sighed and came to my door and opened it and said, "Hurry up! I ain't got all day."

I took the seatbelt off and as I stood up, I slipped and would have gotten badly hurt if it weren't for the strong hands that held me on my waist. I opened my right eye slowly and looked on the side to see if I fell and than I opened my left eye when I knew I was okay and breathed in deeply and that's when I registered the strong smell of cologne emitting near me.

I looked up to see these powerful pair of green and blue eyes staring at me. It felt like I was in trance until we heard a hoot from a car and I straightened up quickly mumbling a "thank you" and trying to hide my blush. "How awkward!" I kept on repeating to myself. He turned around and said that he needed to chose a ring for his fiancé and just walked away. I looked at him and than started walking fast to catch up.

As I reached him I was huffing and puffing so loudly -how unfit am I?- Hanzala looked at me, rolled his eyes and entered the shop. I followed in after him and saw all the blinding and flashing of all the jewelries.

He went right to the end and demanded to see the manager. How rude? Where's the mannerism?  I just walked around and admired the rings and necklaces. Two rings captured my eyes (the ones that I had pictures of on my phone and dreamt off having them on fingers) were on display right in front of my eyes!

I looked at them dreamily and sighed. I love fancy things and especially Disney! Knowing it was a Disney related ring I knew I had to have it for my engagement and marriage!

I asked the assistance if she could let me see it and as I waited, suddenly I felt someone hovering over me and than felt hot air on my neck as someone was breathing in and out. "Do you fancy those rings?"

The cologne smell was so intoxicating and all I did was nodded. "Well too bad, just dream about them because it is obvious that it does not suit your budget or your worth", the voice whispered back. That was sure enough to break me out of my daze. I turned around and gave him a stink eye and moved away.

Little did I know that Hanzala bought both those rings.

We got to the car and set off to go home, this was going to be four long agonizing hours! I should have just stayed at nanas place. I sighed loudly and Hanzala just looked at me with questioning eyes, maybe I should start up a conversation with him...

"Soooooo can I see the ring you bought?" I asked. He snapped a quick "No." I bit my lips and looked out of the window. "The weather was quite nice today," I said. He just hmm. "How come you were at the cafe today? You know their cake was so devine! I loved it and wanted to eat more but Aadil came and took us park. It felt so good to meet them today, I need to go soon..." I continued babbling nonsense until he pressed his break hard and if it weren't for the seatbelt, I would have flew right out of the window.

"Get out!" He exclaimed. I looked at him with my eyes wide open and said, "Excuse me?" With his hands he gestured towards the right and I looked towards the direction to find a restaurant.