DERAILED✔️

20~

"I'll, and I promise you'll be out soon" she muttered with tears spilling out of eyes like a running tap, she watched as their car went out of the gate. She closed her mouth with her hands as she cried her eyes out, Her life was falling apart before her, "ya Allah, please ease my pain and make everything right" she prayed holding her chest tightly.

Nadia cleaned her face with her palm, crying won't help Abdallah, she had to do something really fast. Nadia hurriedly went into her room to give Idris a call, she couldn't do it alone, She needed his help.

"salam alaykum ya Idris" she said into the phone,

"walaykum salam Nadia is everything alright?" he asked,

"no, can you please come over to my house, I need your help"

"okay"

****

Nadia scurried to open the door when she heard the doorbell ring. After exchanging pleasantries with Idris, she offered him a seat on the couch, "Abdallah is innocent" Nadia declared,

"but-",

"no buts ya idris, Abdallah personally told me that and I believe him" she stated before she continued, "we can't punish the innocent and allow the guilty walk freely on earth, we have to do something ya idris"

"okay, did he give you any clue or something" Idris asked,

Nadia ransacked her head before she shouted "yes, yes he said something, he said his mother will be in danger if he confessed",

"yes that's a good clue, we must talk to his mother" Idris declared,

"okay, let me call to ask if she's at home" Nadia said picking her phone up.

****

Idris decided to stop being undercover since the case was already coming to an end, He just prayed they found the culprit if Abdallah isn't the one. He and Nadia waited for the door to be opened when they rang the bell, they were standing in front of Hajia Maryam's house. They moved backward slightly when the door knob turned to avoid being hit by the door,

"salam alaykum baba" Nadia smiled when she saw Alhaji Ahmad at the entrance of the door,

"walaykum salam" he answered blocking the passage way with his body,

"I want to see ummi" Nadia said walking towards the entrance, but he quickly stopped her,

"she's not in" he said tensely, Nadia stretched her head to see the inside of the house, but his body was in the way,

"but she told me, she's in" Nadia said placing her hand by the side of her head, she was frustrated, she wanted things to solve fast, but it was going otherwise,

"we can check back tomorrow" Idris told Nadia,

"yes it'll be good" Alhaji Ahmad uttered quickly. They were about to turn back when they heard screams coming from inside the house,

"please help me, help me!"

"That woman!" Alhaji ahmad scowled attempting to close the door, but Idris quickly stopped him by taking both of his hand behind tightly,

"Nadia go, go check inside!" Idris instructed Nadia, Nadia hurriedly carried her legs inside the house panting,

"ummi where are you?" Nadia shouted on top of her lungs, she strode towards the stairs quickly, the sound got clearer when she was upstairs "ummi where are you!",

"check the third room by your left, the key is under the foot mat" Hajia Maryam declared in a quavering tone. Nadia followed the instructions, she unlocked the door with the keys she picked from beneath the mat with shaky hands. She pushed the door open when she succeeded in unlocking it. She found ummi tied on a wooden chair with a brown rope, her hair was disheveled, they were eye bags beneath her eyes, the clothes that was used to tie her mouth was on her neck.

"ummi" Nadia bottom lips trembled as she scurried to her direction to untie her. Nadia loosened the rope in the five different directions it was tied, "ummi" nadia said hugging her tightly, "who did this to you?" she asked,

"we don't have time for that now, we have to leave, he's very dangerous" Hajia maryam declared trembling, she held Nadia's hand as they scrambled out of the house.

They found Alhaji Ahmad already tied close to the door, Idris stood close to him, guarding him intently. He threw him into the house, then locked him up when Hajia Maryam and Nadia got out,

"we have to leave this place" Idris said as they all ran into the car.

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