Love's Redemption by Khamya Rafiq (Series 1)

Chapter 5- Part 1 (Last Chapter)

THIRD PERSON POV

No matter how many plans we make or steps we follow, we never know how our day is going to end up. We’d prefer to know of course, what curve balls will be thrown our way. It’s the accidents that always turn out to be the most interesting parts of our day, the people we never expected to show up, a turn of events we never would have chose for ourselves.

It’s late at night when Emir Beiron suddenly received a message from Lady Caroline that she needs to see him ASAP, and that she’s at the garden of Rafiq’s mansion. He hurriedly run towards the said place after reading it.

What happened? She isn't supposed to be here in Al Ashiq by this time. He said to himself as panic started to rise which made his heart, beats frantically. After few minutes, he reached the most remote part of the garden and despite of the darkness he recognized Caroline, kneeling at the grass while sobbing.

“What are you doing here? You’re not supposed to be here. Where’s Keith?”

Lady Caroline look up from sobbing, “He’s, he’s…” she stammered. And when Beiron saw her face, he just noticed that she’s soaking with tears, perspiration and…blood.

“Whoa! Caroline what happened? Tell me.” He said as he started to shake her shoulders.

“We had been ambushed!” 

“What? How?” he frighteningly asked.

Despite the tears blurring her vision, she tried to narrate everything that happened trying not to choke.

“We meet at the place you said, but just a second when I got there, the guards immediately crowded us, as if they know we’re coming. When two guards grab me away from him, Keith fight back and so was I, at first we had a chance but then another group of guards suddenly came to stop us. Seeing that we’re no match to them and that Keith is too beaten up, we run to the nearby forest, we hide, but then not for too long, they already surround the forest. So Keith decided that we should split up to distract them, and that we would meet up at the place where you arranged a plane for us.” She paused for a bit to steady the frantic beating of her heart and to catch her breath then she continued. ”He run towards the other direction and distract them so that he could buy me some time to come out from the bush where we hide and then run. But then not all guards followed him, others were still looking for me, that’s why I couldn’t come out. Then, *she sobs* then they captured him, they beaten him, my instincts told me to come out to help him and when I’m about to, he glanced in my direction with his face battered and filled with blood. He mouthed a NO to me with his swollen lips as if he knows what I’m planning to do. So I just stayed there, covering my mouth so I couldn’t let out a cry while watching him got beaten. And after about an hour, they were gone, thinking of that as a chance, I run so I could come here. I, I left him because I couldn’t find him anywhere, I left him Beiron.” More tears stream on her face, so Beiron hugged her, trying to ease her pain. “I had never thought I could love a person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you love so deeply? Or was it just those of us walked on a precipice who live in such a panic?” she muttered.

“Shshsh…It’s not your fault." Beiron caressed her hair. "But I don’t understand how did the guards predicted, no, prediction is an understatement. It’s as if they already know that you’ll be there and all they have to do is to wait for the perfect time to devour their prey. But how? My plan is flawless, only the three of us knows about this, or is it?" Then something dawned on him. "Caroline? How did you relay all of our plans to Keith?”