6  And the truth has revealed

Mr. Aziz looks very shocked, when he sees Khaled in his room, especially when he sees the picture in his hand

Mr. Aziz ran towards Khaled, and snatched the picture from Khaled's hand, shouted at him, "How dare you enter my room without my permission?"

Khaled said to him, "is this important now? Explain to me what this is?"

pointing to the picture

Mr. Aziz stands bewildered and worried

Khaled Repeated the question, "explain to me what this is?"

Mr. Aziz answers him, "there is nothing I can explain please leave me."

Khaled approaches Mr. Aziz and asks him sarcastically

"What did you said? There is nothing to explain!!"

"Your presence with Awad and his family needs no explanation!!"

"This family situation deserves no explanation"

You told me you had never met Awad, you've been lying to me all this time.

Whoever is in this picture is you. Whoever puts Awad's children on his legs is you.

And in the end, you tell me that there is nothing to explain!!

You cheated on me all these times,

I have the right to tell me the truth.

So, tell me it, tell me the truth

Mr. Aziz shouts, "I don't know anything, leave me", then he grabs his heart, and falls to the ground.

Khaled quickly calls for an ambulance and takes him to the hospital, all the way he holds Mr. Aziz's hands and cries.

He seems to feel very guilty about him.

Mr. Aziz arrives at the hospital and enters the emergency room

After a while, the doctor comes out and tells him that Mr. Aziz is fine, and has been moved to a normal room, but for his convenience, the visit is prohibited until he recovers again.

Khaled reassures Mr. Aziz from afar, then decides to finally listen to the psychologist's words, and travel to check everything.

He asks Mary to book a ticket for him to travel and asks his assistant there to wait for him until he comes to him

Khaled arrives in Cairo, and finally meets his assistant and asks him to explain everything he knew because many things got mixed upon him.

The assistant says, "through my in-depth investigation I found that Mr. Awad was working for the El-Massry company, not your company, at the time of the accusation, you bought the company only eight months ago, but Awad committed suicide two and a half years ago. The files on the laptop that prove the financial manager's guilt were before Mr. Awad was hired at El-Massry Company

Finally, what baffles me?

The financial director was Mr. Nader, the owner of El-Massry Company

But the actual owner of the company was your father, Mr. Aziz.

But I can almost assure from the way of bringing down EL-MASRY company that it was revenge on you for robbing Mr. Nader of your father's company

Khaled says was it my father who put Awad into prison?

The assistant says, "No, he sold it before that to Mr. Nader, who happens to be his nephew!"

Khaled responds in astonishment, "what?!"

There is one more thing I want to tell you

The police found in Awad's house a suicide note and a confession that he had done all the embezzlement and that he couldn't bear to see his family living in disgrace, so he killed them.

Khaled asks him, "Is it possible for Awad to do all this?"

The assistant responds, "I don't know, sir."

Khaled "but didn't I tell you to look into him?"

The assistant tells him that he has already investigated him, but he didn't think that researching the nature of his character would be useful.

Khaled yells at his assistant, "I asked you to investigate everything about Awad, not just the case."

It seems that Khaled does not imagine the idea that Awad is a criminal and that he killed his children, so he spoke to his assistant in that way.

The assistant appears very upset, but Khaled quickly apologizes to him and tells him that he has done his duty to the fullest, and tells him to return to the states and that he will give him a great reward for his effort.

Khaled leaves his assistant and returns to the hotel to collect his thoughts again.

"Awad didn't work for my father, but he knew him very well, Nader is my father's nephew, and Awad was working for him at the time of the accusation. The missing link is

"Where am I in all of this?"

And what is my relationship with Awad if I bought the company after his death, how close was I to him to the point that his death affected me, and was I close to him to this degree?

Hey, is it possible that I was a close friend of Awad because, in the end, I was an adopted child, I wasn't rich in the first place? That explains a lot of things I have to check some things myself.

Khaled arrived at his company's headquarters and approached one of the employees

One of the employees asked Khaled, "Are you looking for someone"

Khaled reply's, "Yes, can you help me?" I am looking for one of the employees. He is called Awad Jaber.

Employee "Yes, of course, I remember him."

Khaled asked, "Can I meet him."

Employee "Unfortunately, he passed away more than two years ago."

Khalid "How did this happen?"

Employee "He was accused of embezzlement, and killed his family, then committed suicide"

Khaled "He must be a bad person for all that to happen to him."

Employee "If you don't know anything, don't speak that's will be better. Awad was the best person you could ever meet in your life, but he was unfortunate that he fell into the clutches of that cunning person. But our God is not neglectful, for that cunning person died, heinous death, which he deserves."

Khaled "I don't understand anything, can you explain, please?"

Employee "Why will I do that? I might lose my job because of that."

Khaled "Don't worry, you won't lose anything."

Employee "Why would I trust you."

Khaled "Come with me to the office."

Employee "Which office?!"

Khaled "My office, I am Mr. Aziz's son, the owner of this company."

The employee "Sorry, sir. I made a mistake."

Khaled "Don't worry, I promised you. Come with me."

Not only did Khaled ask about Awad at his place of work, but he also went to his house, but no one lived there, so he went to the restaurant opposite him.

Khaled "Is this house for rent"

Restaurant worker "The owner of the house died, he and his family, and they have no heirs. I think that state is the owner of the house now."

Khaled "He and his family died. What unfortunate luck!"

Restaurant worker "Yes, he is really unfortunate, but he never deserved that death, so that his soul didn't rest and hovered in the place."

"Why do you say this?"

"After the incident, I was late in closing the restaurant, and when I passed by the nearby park, I saw a man who looked exactly like him crying under the tree. His soul must have been stuck. Because he didn't take his revenge yet, but I am sure that he, his wife, and his children were killed, he didn't kill them and committed suicide, as people say.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because on the night of the accident. I saw a black car parked behind the house for a long time, and after Mr. Awad went out from his house, one of them entered the building, after a while, he came out with the bag."

Khaled "Do you remember what they looked like?"

Restaurant worker "at that time there was an accident in front of the restaurant, and we all ran to see what happened, so we could help, so I couldn't check well

Khalid But "why didn't you tell the police

Restaurant worker "why will I do that?! I was going to tell Mr. Awad, but he committed suicide, and none of their relatives showed up, and the news said at that time, Mr. Awad embezzled from his company and committed suicide, and that was very strange, and I was afraid to get involved in this matter after all he already died. What is the point? if he is already dead."

Khaled "Thank you, Zakaria."

Khaled talks to himself "How did I know his name?! I must solve this puzzle. I will look at the surveillance cameras of the shops in front of the building. It is possible to identify these people. "

The neighborhood in which Awad lived was so difficult to find cameras because it was a poor neighborhood. But with the long, and exhausting search for cameras, Khaled eventually found one at a clothing store. Khaled entered the store and asked the seller

Khaled "I want this suit, how much does it cost?"

Seller "3000 pounds."

Khaled "You must feel safe with this camera."

Seller "ha-ha the shop owner installed it about a month ago After the store stole last month."

Khaled mumbles "Oh, it's new"

Seller "The shop owner regrets not hearing advice from our neighbor, when he told him many times to install it like him, but..." Khaled interrupts him "when did he install it?"

Seller "more than three years ago, why do you asking?"

Khaled "But Why can't I see it?"

Seller "He puts it in a hidden place."

Khaled "Thank you"

Seller "Wait take the suit"

Khaled "It's a gift from me"

Khaled went to the other store and found a man in his 50th wearing glasses, and looks like a teacher.

Khaled, "Can I check your camera, sir"

Store owner "Why"

Khaled "My car was stolen from in front of your store.

Store owner "How did you know I had a camera?"

Khaled "I was looking in the area, and someone told me. I will give you everything you want but show me the video, please?"

Shop owner "I don't want anything. Are all people asking you for money? It looks like you are wealthy, but I don't want your money. Well, tell me the day that your car was stolen."

Khaled "It's a bit old date September 13th, 2019"

Store owner "What is this? It's the day of the accident."

Khaled "Oh, do you remember that day?"

Shop owner "Yes, it is my daughter's birthday, but that day they were paving the road, and no car stopped in front."

Khaled "I parked aside of the street."

Shop owner "but it took a long time to search."

Khaled "Sorry, my mother was sick and I had to travel abroad with her and the police did nothing

The shop owner Well here is the day you want. I will leave you for a while. There is someone who calls me

Khaled "Thank you, sir."

Khaled turned on the day of the accident Khaled's eyes were teary, he saw Awad, his wife, and his children entering their house, and they were very happy. He saw the car parked by the road. But the car stopped in the morning, and this is not the same time that the owner of the store told him about, and they waited until Awad came out and went up to the house, but they didn't take any bags. Rather, they kidnapped the Awad family.

When Khaled saw that his head started a painful headache that can't be stopped. Khaled started to see the flash of memories of the Awad family, gagged in the car, their eyes filled with fear

Khaled to himself, "My eyes, why it cries with that burning? Why can't I breathe?"

Khaled accidentally presses the accelerator button and finds a black car at the same time that the shop owner told him about, from which a man got out after jogging outside his house for a while and entered his house and came out with a black bag, but this man is very familiar

Khaled: Isn't this ... No, my head it's going to fall apart

"Uh my head, oh bastards, I will not leave you live, never, oh killers, oh my God I feel that my mind is going to explode."

Khaled left Awad's home, and let his feet take him to his dream. He went to a tree in his dream, which they buried underneath its wish box, one leg feels longing and forwards to the tree and the other leg feels afraid and backward. The tree in his dream is in the nearby park to Awad's home. He reached the tree, and began digging, digging, digging then, he found the box,

and opened the wishes

"I wish to become a doctor" Malak's wish

"I wish to become a football player" Karim's wish

"I wish to become a teacher like my mother" Aseel's wish

I hope it lasts "The happiness of our home forever" Sara's wish, finally "I hope that God will prolong my life so that I can fulfill their wishes" Awad's wish.

Crying, crying, and crying until it seemed as if he would cry blood.

OH, I only wanted to live with you, OH, sorry I could not protect you, I have never tasted happiness after you left, why did this happen to us? We never did something wrong

"Sorry, my love, I didn't listen to you, I didn't believe your fears"

"Sorry, children, I could not protect you

It's my fault, It's my fault. I can never forgive myself."

Awad regains his memory...….

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