All Chapters of Enshrouded: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Aisha pulled her frail legs down and she stared at her legs. She dreaded this moment. the time she was going to set her eyes on Abba again. This weekend she had spent alone was the peaceful and loveliest weekend she ever had since she came to Taraba. Today being Monday, she had to wake up early and get ready for school, she knew Abba would be there at any time. She got to her bathroom and showered, different thoughts were making a shamble out of her brain. She didn’t know what was the right thing to do. She got herself ready and slung her ba

Aisha cried all day and slept all night. She woke up after midnight and was lucky the fever had gone down and she realized she was hungry beyond words could tell. She slowly walked to the kitchen and cooked for herself, after she was done, she took the plate to the balcony and sat down with a heavy heart. She sighed and hugged her body before she ate her food, she was still feeling dizzy and sick. She finished eating and stared blankly into space, not bring herself up to cry or even feel. She knew Abba would punish her for this, she wasn’t the one that kissed him first, for goodness sake. 

Abba took a few steps towards them and the guy kept stepping backwards until he was able to grip Aisha’s wrist. He pulled her to himself and she fell in his chest. He looked at the guy and grimaced his face even more angrier, “What’s your name?” He asked, and the guy straightened his collar and looked at Aisha with a beautiful smile on his lips. “Should I tell him or you’ll do me the favour. It’s been months we met, I missed you.” He was trying to touch her face when Abba punched his face and he lost

“Happy Birthday, Aisha!” Daddy chorused and hugged her to his body. She shrieked and hugged him back, she always had the best birthday in her life. Daddy made sure he made it back home whenever it was her birthday, it can be for a few hours before he travelled out of town again. But he had to be there when it clocked 12am, on the 25th of March of every year. Ilham moved towards her and hugged her, “Happy Birthday, Humaira. Please be a responsible girl, you’re no more a teenager.” Humaira laughed as Ilham pinched her c

The chilly wind of Taraba woke her up and she felt as the pain, the ache and heartbreak through her soul in full force. She couldn’t life a finger and she sat there unmoving as she watched the sky getting clearer with each passing minute. She was only crying, not that she felt the pain in her heart but because she figured it was only natural for her to cry over this. One of the resisdents came walking around when he spotted Aisha and he seemed to be terrified. He spoke to her but there were only tears from her eyes, and that made him realized she couldn’’t speak. He rushed to the house down their floor and called his wife. 

He was the one that guided Khalid’s relatives to the house when they arrived in Bauchi. It wasn’t an easy task driving in Buachi with no precise location and he had been on phone with them until he was fortunate enough to get the right location they were in. Something was surely bothering him, he didn’t know the kind of life Aisha had been living in that house. She had no phone with her, and whenever he pestered Nana to call her, they would have to wait until Abba got back home and he would give her the phone to chat briskly with him. And from the way he sensed the way her voice trembled whenever Nana called if he was there, he was sure Abba was beside her. 

Her whole shoulders shook, this was the first breakdown she had ever since she came back to Buachi. She had stayed in this house alone with neither laughter nor tears. But today, as she told Mama all that had been happening in her life, Aisha had the most painful breakdown. Mama was crying so much that she couldn’t even console Aisha to stop crying too. She had never imagined the kind of life Aisha was living in Taraba, but now that knew; she felt disgusted of herself. If she ahdn’t begged Aisha to marry Abba, all this wouldn’t have happened to her. 

Abba staggered backwards and felt as though she pointed an arrow to his heart. He placed his hands on his cheek and touched, he still couldn’t believe that Aisha slapped and even acted as if she didn’t know him. What kind of life had she been living ever since she left his house? He had been looking for her all over Taraba and still couldn’t see find her until today. Almost after every two days he made sure he came to A & H with the hope of seeing her but he didn’t until today. It got to the point that fought with Nuiryya because of how worried he seemed. 

Just like Humaira ordered, no one dared let Abba into A & H from that day. It had already been months, but Abba could only wait when he saw her driving out of the hotel and he would follow her. He knew she knew of his stalking and was just waiting for the right time to have her guys mercilessly deal with him. But he wasn’t going to relent just too soon, he knew she was going back to him. She was only angry at him for a mean but as he kept persisting, Abba was sure she would relent and come back home. That way, this silence Mama and his whole family were treating him will be brought to an end. He knew if it was their normal selves, Mama would’ve already came to Taraba herself or sent Nasir to come and check up on him since he changed hi sismcard, but none came.

The police came in and both Humaira and Abba were handcuffed and taken to the police station for further investigations. Huamira had been crying all the way, she had been in the poloce stations for times she couldn’t care to count, but today was a different case. She had never thought of killing someone, but today she was a murder susupect. Who called the police in the first place? That’s a question for another day. All she had been doing was stared at her blood stained hands non stop. She couldn’t believe the blood in her hands was Rafiq’s, that Rafiq was gone forever. Who killed her Rafiq?