This book is a sequel to Khalifa and cannot be read as a standalone. To avoid spoilers, description and excerpt are added inside the book. ✵ Started: May 2, 2022. Completed: December 3, 2022. ✵ cover by @xniftykayx

"If you didn't love me in the first place then you shouldn't have married me." She said, her heart sinking knowing that she didn't have a place in his heart. "Do you think I wanted to?" He spoke, turning his face to the side looking at her over his shoulder. "If it wouldn't have been for Zain then I wouldn't have ever!." He stated. She didn't knew how she could muster up so much courage to stride towards him and turn him by holding his hands as she made him face her. Standing on her tiptoes she was a bit his level as she caught hold of his collars. "Tell me you're lying. Tell me that it wasn't just for Zain. Tell me you're doing this because you're angry with me. Tell me that's it's all a lie!" She exclaimed at the end, her tears rolling down her cheeks freely. He looked at her for a second before he caught her hands which were on his collar and removed them, and holding her wrist, he turned it behind her back as he fiercely pulled her closer to him, his eyes staring deep into her. "Even if I am, you have lost the right to ask me that." He stated coldly. "Why!" She exclaimed. "Why did you behave so sweet with me all this time, when you had already planned to end this relation. Why did you filled this void life of mine with happiness and joy. You should have just let me be!" Her eyes held the anger and pain which her heart was feeling. "Just to let you know how it feels to be betrayed." With that said, he let go of her and moved back. *** The only things that mattered in Shumail Ibrahim's life were his friends and his work. His life was pretty normal until she entered his life. He met her suddenly just like that and with just a single look he had fallen for her deeply. Everything seemed magical and to anyone who saw them happy together seemed it was destiny that brought them together. But was it really destiny that played it's game or the mastermind was actually someone else?? Find out in Dear Shumail...Please try to forgive me.

He splashed some water on his face and removed his handkerchief to wipe his face when a piece of paper fell from his pocket. He looked at it through furrowed eyebrows and picked it up as he opened it to find the same printed letters. He recalled the events and understood that it was the man who collided with him a few minutes back who had placed the note in his pocket. He instantly took his cell and called the guard. "Search for a man in brown suit and mustache. He should not get out of this hall!" He barked and cut the call. He opened the letter again and read. "It's no use finding my man now Tsk. He's out of your reach! But let's do something more interesting? Shall we? Wanna see a magic? Another 20 seconds and the place will explode. I wish your sister a happy married life :) Counting begins.....Tick Tock." *** It is said that Time is the best healer but if you don't let it heal then how can it? She was broken He was full of life She was a dead soul, just breathing and alive for name sake He was living his life to the fullest, achieving new heights of success She was an orphan with no parents He had the most lovable ones A broken soul with no hope to live.. A lively one with intentions of winning every challenge of life.. What happens when this unknown stranger enters her world and starts slowly pulling her out of her shell without her even knowing it? What happens when this mere stranger starts making his place in her life and starts mending her broken world? What happens when she finds herself searching for reasons to live again? What happens when she start looking at the beautiful side of life? She had no reasons to live until he came along and dragged her in his life but the biggest challenge in front of him is to keep her away from the horrors of his life, which threaten to destroy him and leave her broken yet again. Will he be able to protect the love of his life? Or the psychopath who's after him will succeed in destroying his everything?