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Love is a beautiful kind of fear.

They said that the eldest qureshi daughter was a double edge sword, one of her sides was soft and the other was sharp. She wasn't to be held, wasn't to be played and someone wasn't to be messed with.

Hold it, however you are gonna bleed.

But the youngest daughter was totally fired.

Quite literally but both physically are hot and agonizing.

Z A Y N A

The remainder of the crowd was stopped when a black Mercedes stopped, farther most corner and immediately Ashinoor saw the familiar face when the windshield rolled down.

Dead… she was dead.

With a gulped she turned towards her friends.

"Isn't that your sister?"

"Yes."

"Bro, your sister is fucking peice."

As soon as the words left the boy's mouth Ashinoor held the boy's neck and slammed him against the wall. All gasped at the scene.

"What did you say?"

even in a whisper her threat was scary. The boy wasn't able to breathe because of the tight grip of the girl.

"Sorry…. please….i can't…can't."

She left him and took the briefcase leaving the rest of them to gasp at the girl. She moved towards the car and sat on it. Ashinoor frowned at the question, her sister didn't greet her once nor did she notice her. She opened the briefcase which was full of notes. Zayna was on the laptop doing some work.

"How much?"

"50 lakhs."

"How much time did you waste in this petty race of yours?"

Zayna asked without batting an eyelid. Ashinoor again frowned, taking her suitcase of money from her unbothered sister.

"Yaar you should congratulate me, I have won a race with this huge amount of Money."

Ashinoor said proudly, Zayna rolled her eyes at her.

"Anyways, why are you here?"

Ashinoor questioned her, as she knew her sister is not a social person. She prefers to be at home, yet she does her office work from home whereas she was totally opposite of her.

"Too pick you from this mess. Did you know that the police called us to inform us about this illegal racing?"

Zayna turned to stare at her sister who was looking unbothered before but the next second her eyes widened.

"The inspector said he was about to raid it but didn't because two idiots of the biggest families were involved."

While Zayna never yelled but her angry voice was easily recognisable from her nonchalant one. Ashinoor signed resting her back on the headboard.

"I was about to tell you."

"When?"

Zayna side eyed her sister, her tone was slightly demanding. .

"Did Dad know about this?"

Ashinoor asked with a slight fear on her face, Zayna hummed in response and the next second she was drinking water in fear.

"What? Why did you tell him?"

Ashinoor questioned her accusingly.

"I didn't tell him, he was the one who told me about this illegal race of yours, now bear the consequences of this."

Zayna said nonchalantly but the latter chuckled at her sister's expression.

They both entered the qureshi mansion and saw their father Mehmood qureshi was waiting for them, they could sense he was angry, hell angry at his youngest daughter.

"Aaiye Aaiye queen victoria.!"

Mehmood's sarcastic voice reached in their ears, Ashinoor rolled her eyes at her father's sarcasm.

"Kitni baar kaha hai ki faltu ki cheezon pe dhyan mat do apni padhai par do lekin nahi tumhe toh inn ladai jhagde karne mein maza aata hai na?"

Mehmood questioned his daughter, anger could be sensed in his voice, Ashinoor looked at her father.

"Baba jaan, mene koi ladai jhagda nahi Kara hai. It was just a simple race."

Ashinoor replied with a defensive tone, Aafreen glared at her daughter.

"Ashinoor tameez mein raho."

Aafreen said glaring at her.

"Ammi, mein tameez mein hi hun."

She wasn't less than anyone, Mehmood glared at his daughter and sighed.

Zayna looked at the father daughter duo who were glaring at each other. She was scared that if Mehmood Qureshi said something against Ashinoor then the war would begin.

"Baba jaan, leave it, main Ashi ko samjha dungi aap fiqr mat kariye."

Zayna said softly to her father, Mehmood looked at his eldest daughter and nodded.

"Sikho kuch zayna se, tmhre saath issi Ghar mei rehti hai vo."

Mehmood said proudly looking at zayna meanwhile zayna felt like a outsider, he didn't address her as ashi's sister whatever this wasn't the first time, this is happening. Ashinoor glared at her before heading towards her room.

Zayna sighed at her.

"Zayna, tumse kuch baat karni hai, will meet at dinner."

Zayna nodded listening to her father's words, Anxiety hitted her chest, he seemed serious. She didn't understand what was going to happen.

She marched towards the upstairs to see her sister who might be angry at herself and throwing the things off her room here and there and to her guess she was right.

Her sister was taking out the cotton of her pillow and the whole room was messed up. Zayna sighed at her.

"Ashi ye kya haal bana rakha hai?"

Zayna questioned her whole glaring at her.

"Aaiye Aaiye, aap agar babajaan ki waqalat karne aayi hai toh please mera koi mood nahi iss topic pe baat karne ka."

Ashinoor got up from the bed and started to clean the mess she had created because of her anger. Zayna got close to her and grabbed her elbow and made her look at her.

"Ashi, main yahan kisi ki waqalat nahi karne aayi hun aur jo tumne ye race kri isme tmhri jaan ko bhi khatra tha Allah na kare agar tumhe kuch ho jata toh? Sabse zyda takleef babajaan ko hi hoti, he is just worried about you.!"

Zayna said gently, Ashinoor looked at her and laughed bitterly.

"Fikr aur takleef? Woh bhi baba jaan ko?

Aaj tak unhe meri ya tmhri koi takleef nazar aayi bhi hai? Aur agr itni hi fikr hai meri toh mjhe internship kyun nhi krne de rhe hai woh?"

Ashinoor said making zayna speechless.

"Zayna, we are just a pawn in his games."

She said, tears were threatening to fall from her eyes, zayna quietly hugged her, she cried in her sister's embrace. They were each other's bestfriend.

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"Where is Ashinoor, Meera?"

Aafreen qureshi asked her maid about her daughter's whereabouts.

"She is in her room madam."

The maid replied quickly, Aafreen felt like to slap Ashinoor.

"Call her, does she have forgotten the rules of this house?"

Aafreen glared at Meera who hurriedly ran to ashinoor's room to call her.

"Ashinoor bibi, your mother is calling you for dinner."

Ashinoor was in no mood to do dinner but she didn't protest as Meera would be scolded by her mother. She quietly went downstairs and sat between Zayna and Shahvir.

Mehmood Qureshi cleared his throat, all looked at him, they knew he is going to announce something.

"Zayna is going to get married in a month, you all need to start the preparation of her wedding."

The sentence made zayna and Ashinoor choked on their food, aafreen glared at both of them. Zayna didn't know how to react. She froze and looked around to confirm the information.

"She is getting married to my friends son, Aahil, you all knew him, he is perfect for her. And Zayna I know you won't be having any problem with this."

Mehmood Qureshi continue further, there was a silence after his sentence.

"How?"

A  whisper left her mouth but in fatal silence they heard her, aafreen glared at zayna.

"Zayna, what you mean by how? From when did you start questioning like Ashinoor, be obedient as always you are.

She looked at her parents, they didn't even bother to ask her about her opinion, Shahvir and Ashinoor squeezed her hands gently and blinked their eyes in assurance.

Later that night, Zayna was on her balcony, her mind was having several types of thoughts. She doesn't have many desires for her marriage, but all she wanted was a pious husband and simple marriage. But again who cared about her? No one did except Ashinoor.

A small drop of tears fell from her eye, she wasn't ready for a marriage like this. Apart from all this, she knew her family would wed her off to the same profession like theirs.

Zayna never wanted someone who had the same mafia business as her father's, she needed someone who would live a normal family, someone who could give her love which she always wanted. She was probably asking for too much. She was stupid to dream about this.

And all know she was worried about what the future held for her.

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