Chapter Seventeen

Layla was taken back home. Mikail couldn't sleep. She was going crazy. He had to stay up ,in case she started acting up. He felt weak and so sleepy

Soom, he begun dozing off. He tried to stag up at night by taking coffee but the drugs he was given didn't seem to be working.

He slowly fell asleep. He slept for about 2 hours before he opened his eyes slowly because he sensed something was wrong.

He met Layla's eyes staring at him. Her eyes looked red and scary. Her stare was fixed on him. She didn't even blink for close to 7 minutes.

"Don't be scared of me" she said as she saw fear in his eyes. He wasn't scared of her. He was scared of her hurting herself.

He saw fear in her eyes. Fear of herself. He tried to get up but his body felt numb. It was one of the side-effects of the drug he was given.

Layla got up with year's in her eyes and walked out of the room. She returned few minutes later with a tray full of all his favourite foods. She helped him up and placed his head on her laps as she fed him slowly.

She had been sobbing all along. Mikail didn't know what to do. He was in pain and so was his girl. After feeding him, she left the room and came back few minutes later and paced to the closet.

She took out her pink travellers bag and begun packing her clothes. She was leaving.

"Baby where are you going to?" Mikail asked her. He was alarmed when she not only ignored him but was weeping too.

"Baby?" He continued to call out to her. She ignored him until she was done packing her things.

"If I stay here any longer, I may act up and hurt you" she said without looking at him. She didn't want to hurt him when she started acting up.

"Please don't leave me baby" Mikail pleaded with tears in his eyes. Layla couldn't stand it. She hated it when he cried.

"I just hate myself love. I hate the things I do" she confessed as she crouched beside him and wept in his chest. He was shocked yet delighted to hear her call him Love. But he was broken when he saw her hate herself.

How could such an angel hate herself? She was the best gift the world could ever have.

"Don't say that baby. You're not going to act up. I promise you. " he consoled his crying doll.

She unconsciously lay her head on his tummy and begun dozing off.

"You've c...change s-so much M-Mikail. I thank Allah for that. I use..d to h-hate you. I never wanted y-you to be happy. But not anymore M..Mikail. I realised now that I w..was being j...judgemental. I-I Lo....y-y.." She couldn't complete her sentence when she fell asleep.

"You what Layla?" Mikail asked. But it was in vain. She was already asleep. He sighed and smiled.

He knew that she wanted him back. He was forever indebted to Allah for making her his.

***

The feeling you get when everyone thinks you're crazy when you're trying to fight the demons within you and the least person you except to think same, also thinks like that. That feeling hurts doesn't it.

Layla woke up in a psychologist's office. The whole Sheikh family stood above her. Mikail included. He looked better since he could move his limbs now.

She was very much impressed since he was her husband. She had a very strong contract husband. Speaking of contract, their contract had 5 months to expire.

She had waited for this for so long, bug now that it was close by, she felt reluctant to let go. Since she loves him and he does too, she figured they could work it out and stay together or maybe not?

"What am I doing here?" She asked when she found a belt like thing trying her tightly to the bed which she lay on.

"I'm sorry baby. You really need help. We've brought you here to help you" Munaiya explained. She was furious beyond limits when she heard that. She looked at everyone standing above her watching her pitifully.

"What the hell! I'm not crazy! Let me go!" She cursed. Her aggressive side had take over. Layla was not one who liked to curse. She only did things that would make Allah pleased. But the aggressive Layla, she was the 'devil may care' type. She listened and saw no one. After she was done destroying, she would lie back and watch how the calm Layla would cry and hate herself

(A/N Layla's aggressive side is such a bitch right ?🙄😒. But I still love her 😁)

"We know hun. But we need to be sure" Ali said. Ali had grown to be one of her favourite men in the world. She saw a brother in him, so she didn't expect him to say such a thing. She was hurting inside.

"We know it's hard sugar but please let us help you" Farhan and Jamil said in unison

"Yes please let us help you daughter" her mother in law said.

Ibrahim remained quiet watching in pity what was going on.

"Speak to me Ibrahim. Tell them I'm not crazy!" Layla pleaded. He was now in a dilemma, but he knew that she needed help.

"Sugar? I think you have to give attention to what they are saying. We're only trying to help you"

Layla couldn't help but burst into tears. She wasn't crazy. Or maybe she thought.

"Sorry baby. But you really need to get checked out" Mikail finally spoke.

Layla was surprised to hear this from Mikail. She didn't expect Mikail to think that she was crazy. She was now convinced that she really was crazy.

"You think,I'm crazy too?" She asked in a heartbreaking tone. Mikail knew she was hurting but he couldn't afford to let things get worse than it already was.

The remaining 5 months of their marriage was important to him. He wanted to get her to confess her love to him too so that he would know what plan to take next. He wouldn't let the remaining days be wasted on watching her have endless nightmares and gory illusions.

"Baby, I'm so..." He was cut short by a sudden gunshot. The next thing he knows Layla had taken the bullet meant for him. Ali and the boys suddenly took out their weapons and rushed to the doll lying on the ground bleeding with a bullet through her chest.

"Baby.. No... Stay with me...Layla don't you dare leave me" Mikail pleaded.

Layla smiled weakly and caressed him on the cheek

"I told you, I wasn't crazy" she said before she closed her eyes.

"No! Layla! No!" He roared. The nurses who had all rushed to the crime scene quickly picked her up and placed her on the bed.

Farhan and Jamil had taken the Sheikh family back home whilst Ali, Mikail and Ibrahim stayed behind hunting down the perpetrators. Soon, the whole hospital and it's environs was inoculated by Mikail's mafia members.

Layla was being treated on. Mikail was very angry. Who had dared to kill him and then end up injuring his life (Layla).

After a thorough search, they found some clues and if made them angry. It was a sign of a scorpion on a red bandana. Where had he heard of a scorpion and a red bandana before?

"Mikail! A call from the Red Alliance!" Ali growled as he gave the phone to Mikail. He knew that The Red Alliance was behind all this.

"Hello Mikail?" The sinister voice said. That voice that made him almost murder the love of his life about 6 months ago.

"Look here! Whoever you think you are! You're going to wish undone messing with me and my wife! I sweat to you!" Mikail spat at the person at the other side.

The sinister voice chuckled and said calmly

"Mera Chota Baccha (my little boy in Urdu). You can't harm me. I'm indomitable and you're just my little boy. Your wife looks like a virgin. We wouldn't want someone to take what you haven't taken do we?" The sinister voice asked.

"Don't you dare talk about Layla like that! I swear I'm going to slaughter you! Your names are numbered!" Mikail spat back at thean before hunging up. He knew that he had to be very careful if not Layla was going to get hurt.

"Ali, Layla musn't get out of our sight from now on. They've got eyes on her." Mikail said calmly , trying to compose himself bug Ali's reaction brought out the demon in him.

"I'm going to kill that bastard if he ever thinks of touching her!!" Ali roared.

Mikail was surprised yet impressed. Layla had everyone on the tips of her fingers. He had to go check up on her. They were a long distance away from the hospital and had to get back in time to see to it that she was safe.

Mikail suddenly felt an acute pain in his heart. He has been feeling this ever since he met Layla. Anytime she felt pain or was in danger, that pain found it's way in his heart.

It was like they were connected. Anything that happened to Mikail, she felt the pain too. He knew something was definitely wrong with her. He instructed his men to follow him back to the hospital.

"Ali, I feel something is wrong with Layla. Instruct Ibrahim to ditch their search for the perpetrators and come with us to the hospital" Ali quickly rushed to get Ibrahim after he was commanded by Mikail.

Mikail took the lead back to the hospital. He drove like the psychopath he is to the hospital and was met by a gruesome scene. The doctors in the hospital were all tied up and some of them were lying down dead.

He rushed to Layla's ward and met her not on the bed. The doctors in her ward were all dead. Layla had been kidnapped.

Mikail's world flashed before him. His life had been taken away from him. He found a torn piece of her garment all bloody and a broken window.

He felt another sharp pain in his chest. He knew it had to do with Layla. She was in pain. He could tell. Mikail didn't have the slightest clue what to do.

He just sat down on the ground miserably starting in to the ceiling. Ali and Ibrahim suddenly barged into the ward with worried looks on their faces.

"Where the hell is she?!" Ali growled as he checked through the room. Mikail remained as still as he could be and begun reflecting about his life if she wasnt there to complete him.

"Don't just sit there Mikail! Let's go find her!" Ibrahim roared at Mikail. But he sat there unflappable. He was planning what to do now.

"Let's go home. I want to sleep" Mikail said.

Ibrahim and Ali looked at him like he was crazy. He was going to get her back. He didn't know how but he would.

Ali saw a mischievous smile crawl up on Mikail's face. He knew that Mikail was up to some no good.

"Let's take him home Ibrahim" he instructed Ibrahim who was wearing a frown on his face but that face tensed down when he saw a smile on Mikail's face.

Mikail was a crazy man with serious anger issues and didn't like his possessions being taken away from him. He was going to kill. And by killing, he was going to kill a lot.

Mikail got up with 7 foot height and walked like the titan he is, out of the hospital while his men paced to their vehicles.

Soon the whole hospital was void of Mafia presecence and crammed with cops and ambulances.

Mikail went to the Sheikh mansion and announced the kidnapping of Layla. Everyone was terrified. The cry babies like Munaiya cried, whilst the rest of the family sat down grieving.

Mikail rose up and walked out of the Mansion to his car and sped off to his and Layla's home.

He went to work immediately. He checked all surveillance cameras around that part of the country. He was able to get some clues and some pictures of strange vans and strange looking people and their location.

This was just the beginning of a Mafia Vendetta

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