Chapter 143

Even if by some chance he did manage to reach Sohrab after months or years of chasing shadows, he’d never reach us. We would already be long gone from anywhere he could think to look. And I love... my... my-my” Alizeh again looked at Burhan, her eyes softening with a quiet, unshakable certainty as she met his gaze for a brief moment. “I love him. I don’t want to go back to a place where I feel suffocated all the time, where every breath feels heavy and every decision has to pass through someone else’s approval first.”

“You shouldn’t have... have done this, Alizeh.” Roshanay whispered more to herself, her voice barely carrying across the quiet space between them.

“I know I am wrong, Roshanay. Wrongness, I have learned, is not a fixed state—it shifts depending on who is holding the map. I was uh... uh... head over heels for him, completely and hopelessly in love in a way I had never felt before. Moosa Bhai would have never approved of him, not even for a single moment, sin