Love can Heal

The Meeting

"What time will you be home tonight?" asked Zafir Agha to his daughter Zehra whom he loved dearly. "Baba you know I can never say for sure....it always depends on the patients" she said smiling whilst trying to quickly finish her breakfast. "Ok tamam....daughter eat your food slowly" he said smiling at the way she was eating "Baba'cim I'm sorry but I'm running late" she said getting up whilst leaving the table and before Zafir could have said anything more she started to walk off the table "Ok listen..." and at this point he had to get up and follow her out "I have a new body guard assigned for you so don't be surprised..." and Zehra just nodded trying to check stuff in her bag "His name is Karim and..."

"Baba you know I really would prefer if you didn't have people following me around" she said whilst kissing her dad on the cheek and started to walk towards the exit of her house to get into the car.

"Ah Karim you're here" she heard her father say "Zehra!" he shouted to try and stop her in her tracks and as soon as she turned around she saw Karim pointing gun towards her father. She stood still in shock and before she could have reacted more the air was filled with gunshots. The guards she had known all her life, who protected her house and had become part of her family dropping dead one by one until she and everyone else was surrounded by unfamiliar men. The last thing she remembers before fainting was the man who was supposed to be protecting her on the phone saying "Boss...it's done!"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yusuf

I was staring on my phone not believing what I had heard. It was finally done! All the patience, planning and hard work paid off. The only thing that was left was for me to actually go there and kill the man myself. I got up from the ground that I had been resting on in the land nearby, it was the month of April so neither hot or cold. A perfect time to get familiar with my land, the land of Omerli that had belonged to my ancestors but I was deprived of opportunity to grow up here and become an agha.

" Hisham!" I shouted "Get in the car...we're going for the final hunt" and we both smiled wickedly. It wasn't long before I reached the place where my ancestral home was. It wasn't long before we reached the house, the home that was supposed to be mine. I looked around as I took the sunglasses off whilst exiting the car. The house was still as it was I remembered from my childhood days...like a palace.

"Congratulations Yusuf Agha" and he greeted me and I hugged him in joy "Karim you did an excellent job. It wouldn't have been possible without you" acknowledging his loyalty and all the hardwork he had done with me all these years.

He lead me to the room where Zafir was tied up whilst whispering in my ear " I have a huge celebration planned for us tonight....exactly how you like it" and I smiled. "This is definitely a day of celebration but before that gather all my townsmen here" as I commanded him whilst I came face to face with the enemy.

"It's been long time coming hasn't it Zafir or shall I say Uncle Silly?" I said raising his chin and then grabbing by his hair.

"Yusuf..." he whispered in shock as his eyes widened.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Zehra

I woke up with a pounding headache and my first thought was my father whom I couldn't see anywhere. I was in a room where my sister and my mother were also kept with two men watching us like hawks needless to say how scary they were with black suits and guns in their hands. As soon my mother and sister saw me regaining conscious they ran to my side hugging and kissing me "Tamam Anne I'm fine" and I hugged them back.

"Do we know where Baba is?" I asked them curiously and they replied negatively and tears swelling up in my mothers eyes. I looked up to the men and asked them "Where is my father? Where is Zafir agha?" but they continued to ignore me "If you knew what is best for you, you would answer me now" I tried in vain as they smiled " Princess....your father is in big trouble. I suggest you sit here and wait for our boss" as he pushed me back from the door. If they thought they could intimidate me then they had another thing coming "I suggest you tell me now before I hurt you or your boss." when one of them burst into laughing and I took this opportunity to hit them in between their knees whilst the other took hold of me. "Ok enough. I think its time you met your old man and boss."

He took me to a room, the room where my father would have forbidden us to come to as he used to all his dirty work from there. Of course I knew my father was not an angel but he had always tried to protect us from his work and perhaps this is the reason I loved him so much yet hated him especially for the marriage promise he took off me. One thing in life I wanted to do right was to become a doctor, so I could somehow repay for my sins and the sins of my family but even that did not come without a bargain. Even that I had to exchange with the biggest bargain of my life that he would choose the man I would spend my rest of life with but my mother was the biggest consolation in all this mess. She had always assured me that my father loved me so much that he would never send me off with a man who would not honour me, a hope she gave me in vain. I knew what men in our world were like but why was I even thinking all this? I needed to focus and come up with a plan soon.

"Boss this girl was us giving trouble and she wanted to meet you." as she shoved me in the room and the first thing I saw was my father in blood, tied on chair. I ran towards him hoping it wasn't too late.

"Baba can your hear me?" It's me your Zehra" I started crying whilst checking for his pulse. "Zehra" he opened his eyes weakly.

"Don't worry your father isn't dead. I'm not done with him...yet" as I turned around to face the man who had spoken such words. His sleeves rolled up and his knuckles bloody with a satisfying smile on his face. A man so handsome yet devil "You're a devil! May God curse you!" I shouted from the top of my lungs whilst trying to wipe my fathers blood with the scarf I was wearing around my neck.

He walked towards me and grabbed me by the arm, turning towards him in speed. I was so close to him, never had I been so close to a strange man before and it was extremely unsettling "No canim. I'm not a devil, I'm more dangerous than devil." and he forced a kiss on me as all the men around us laughed. I tried to break the kiss but he was too strong holding my both arms. Commanding me to kiss him back with passion doing strange things to my body but I got hold myself and bit his lower lip as he screamed in little agony "You're one little spitfire" he mentioned whilst wiping the blood of his lower lip.

"Take her back to the room." and a man started dragging me out of the room whilst the last thing I saw was this arrogant man making his way to my father.