--if one must choose just one thing at a time between love and wealth it ought to be love, between love and dignity one must choose dignity and between dignity and trust it always should be trust because if one takes trust dignity follows , followed by love and wealth trails love ,
-she returned from attending the birthday party of Jahangir, her father raza ahmed asked her to serious listen to her , ten years had passed since her mother had died, leaving the three children to him to raise , artaza happily married and settled down in Islamabad, murtaza chose his own life companion to live in London, now it was her turn , shehrin was not ready yet but she knew one day she must get married to lighten the responsibility of her father who never remarried for their sake
--four is passed painfully, noful hasan had become just a memory, a memory that made her cry, she had mistakenly tried to use him to ignore attkya whose nature she revealed to noful who also in turn got a chance to show his ugly side to her, inner self is exposed when hard times press one emotionally to react on personal level,
-shehrin was stunned into silence when she looked rather gaped at the new handsome professor standing at the desk with the register calling out the names of the class students one by one, when her name was mentioned she kept staring at him openmouthed, three times her name was loud and clear called that hadya poked her whispering she could later also stare at him but at least be mindfully present to answer
-it was dinner time , mashal sat with maliha , as she scratched the table allah dutta smiled meaningfully sitting next to dada jan in the most honoured seat, the food ritually began with ashrat jahan taking a scoop from one dish after which all the members present passed and revolved the dishes around ,
-jeff was an American , all his properties were in texas, inherited from his forefathers, finding this very odd that there was nothing to reveal yet he had got a threat he planned a trip to London , arranged by a travel agency , the next day he boarded the plane , usually he spent the entire journeys sleeping, this time also he did the same , the moment he found his seat and made himself comfortable he went off to doze till he reached heathrow , where he had to get up to get down, what frightened him was he saw the same fat man with steel framed glasses getting down
--jeff produced a piece of paper out from his pocket handing them it , one by one the three senior police officers looked at it finally the detective read the note--it was a threat and warning to jeff not to reveal what he had seen in the lane below, but what jeff described was nothing out of ordinary except the fat man who was stalking him for three months since then
-jeff had inherited wealth from his father a oil wells owner who had left all his properties to him, he needed no work or any other thing to do , he spent time at his leisure, one day he was at his files composing letters when breaking the glass window a stine with a letter attached fell in his room, thinking it must be a child in the lane below he looked down from his second storey window , the lane was not crowded, a couple embraced each other whispering in each other"s ears, no children played, but one fat stout man with steel framed glasses doing nothing and apparently an outsider not from his locality stood near by , his image etched in jeff"s mind , then he began picking up the shattered glass from the study floor
-the three senior officers were having hot steaming coffee, inspector joe, detective Johnson , old inspector ralph, the room filled with aromatic caffeine smells was warming them up when a young man jeff entered seeking their help , collapsing in a chair panting and breathless as if a ghost was chasing him, he was offered and invited to have coffee with them but he was very frightened and quickly wanted some assrance
-ben thought the amount sent was not good enough , he would accept it if it was raised, but sending it back from the courier and again second time receiving would create doubts so ne had invented a new way to deal with such a situation, he emailed his agent he was accepting , he could cut his own percentage, but on the condition he was sent thirty thousand more, on line transactions in such cases proved safer
- taking care he was not followed ben goes to the courier and is welcomed by the fat woman at the counter smilingly, who giggled and her flab shook with her every time she laughed , and because she liked giggling frequently she shook like jelly all the time, this time she directly asked ben he had come after ages, he too smiled answering there was no parcel so he did not , he signed as mr shield everytime , the parcel was a envelop , he received it and walked back, where ever he felt doubtful or danger he stopped till it was clear for him, safe and alert like a beginner he never made any mistakes, in his apartment he arranged all things neatly before opening the envelope , it contained twelve taped packets consisting of ten thousand dollars each, one lakh twenty thousand in all, the pictures were of an elderly man a chemist adam -in brackets handwritten by the agent was his comment--drug peddler
-ben was a professional killer , nobody knew what his address was, he got his parcels with advance money and pictures of his targets through courier , which he collected from the courier offices walking to and fro, he got information about the parcels from his agent who emailed him about them keeping his ten percent if he accepted the project
-he woke up with a hangover of the previous night, his head ached and felt heavy , the alarm at eight was punctual , he swaying went in for a shower, ben later did his exercises , running and tread mill , he was quite muscular and always dressed in overalls like electricians and plumbers to hide his strength
-lassie pledged never to see harry again, there were many others more suitable age wise, wealthy and single who would like her to be with them, one such was a fund manager nikal who once took her on a shirt trip to Bermuda and tried to strangle her, after this she had no other choice but to go back to harry who on her demand really threw marlin out who packed up and left them to themselves, soon new dresses from branded companies arrived for lassie , one cosmetic box also which was for marlin, now she could use it herself instead of stealing expensive creams and lotions, she rubbed eagerly one such lotion , believing it was making her look younger , the burning sensation meant it was working but it was acid burning her, the doctor declared there was no treatment for the damage done, she got a nameless note praying for her recovery--lassie knew who it was from , of course marlin had played her
- harry trued to contact lassie many times but she had decided she would never see him again , it was a confession she never wanted to be the second woman in anyone's life, but if harry separated from marlin there was hope, but marlin sent her short notes stating what she thought of them, that harry would never be an asset or prove beneficial to her,
