"Dad are you in your senses? What have you done? You have made us laughing stock of the society? What the hell is wrong with you?" Adam yelled as soon as he entered Muzaffar Ali Shah's office.
Muzaffar Ali Shah raised his eyes and it took him by surprise that both his sons were here standing infront of him.
He didn't expect their return. They always expressed how they were happy staying abroad looking after the business there and had no desire to come back.
"You're not going to say anything? Are you for real? You threw our mother out of the house? Our mother? You thought whose gonna come in rescue of poor orphan Jameela and Bariha? that's hilarious. Bariha api grew us up after mama and you didn't think twice before throwing them on the streets?" Murad stared at his father in disbelief.
Muzaffar Ali Shah wanted to yell or snap at them but their towering heights and physique made him pause. They weren't teenagers anymore.
"That wasn't my intention. I just wanted to scare them and look what has your mother done? She's made me a joke in my circle. I can't even step out of this office and here you guys are defending that Bariha and Jameela." Muzaffar Ali Shah sat preplexed at his son's enquirees.
"This is ace. I thought you must be holed up in your office regretting your actions. But we thought wrong, right dear brother? He's sat here blaming others for his actions. Great. There's no point talking to you dad. If Rahma is so precious to you, more than Bariha and us. Keep her and your god forsaken fortune. We both quit." Adam said and Murad gave a disgusting glance to his father.
"And by all means please sign the divorce papers so we can deliver them personally to mama." Murad said and Muzaffar Ali Shah opened and closed his mouth like a fish.
Both brothers were about to leave when Rahma enetered the house. Muzaffar Ali Shah watched her tear stricken face and immediately rushed to her side.
"What happened Rahma?" He asked her immediately hugging her to his chest.
"Haim broke our engagement Dad. Naushaba aunty told him everything. He's now going to go behind Bariha dad. Right Dad? Oh Dad, what I'm going to do? Dad I love Haim Dad.. I can't live without him." Rahma was a mess in Muzaffar Ali Shah's arms.
He was consoling her when his sons left the house. He abandoned Rahma to a maid and rushed outside.
They were about to go when he stopped them calling them hysterically.
"Beta don't go. You guys are my everything. Tum dono and Rahma is my entire fortune, please don't go.." He begged them.
"Dad you keep dissapointing us. We don't see Bariha and mummy as not part of our family. You are forgetting that Rahma and Bariha are practically same for us. They both have different parent. One has a different mother than ours, and one a different father. It's dumb to think we will favour one our the other. Plus our mother is Jameela not Tasneem. We give two shits about Rahma, who never once acknowldged anyone but herself. We remember clearly being dependent sometime on the househelp. And her being eldest was supoose to keep them in line whenever you and Mummy went for gatherings. Instead, she told them to ignore us. It was Bariha who burnt her hand countless time in order to feed us. She is like a second mother to us. If you don't care about our mother and sister, why do we have to care about you? You disrespected them. Played a game with that sick Tasneem. Destroyed both our sister's life. Threw our mother on the streets and you expect us to stand with you? Who do you take us for? monsters? If you care this much for us, you wouldn't have thrown our mother out of the house." Adam said and Murad accelerated the car out of the MS residence.
There stoof Muzaffar Ali Shah alone in the porch with Rahma's shrieks audible from inside the house.
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