No One Will Save You

"Mr. Karlson, a man named Paul Haiden is here. He is claiming that he is this girl's uncle,"

Hearing Leo's words, Damien stretched his head to look at that little girl, Kaya, but his brows arched in confusion, by witnessing her lowered head.

"Do you know this man named Paul Haiden, Kaya? He asked her, gently and in return just found her nodding her head.

"Is he your uncle, dear?" Damien questioned again.

Kaya squeezed her eyes shut before wagging her head again in her answer.

Turning his head around, Damien looked at Leo and uttered curtly.

"Take him inside," 

Leo nodded and then walked out. Kaya's heart was throbbing inside her chest in fear. She didn't want to meet that man. He was inhuman and it was him from whom she was running away that day, but she knew better than to tell everyone the truth. The terror that man, Paul Haiden, had stored inside her heart was soul shivering. She couldn't even dare to tell him the truth to anyone about how much pain he had given her, both mentally and physically.

"Kaya……"

She clenched the bedsheet beneath her as soon as she heard that voice of that pathetic man which used to haunt her even in her closed eyes. She didn't take her head upward to look at that nasty human's face.

"Kaya, are you alright, my child? You don't know how much worried I was for you," 

Damien and Zia saw that man, who looked in the middle of his 40's, sitting beside her. He cupped her face, causing Kaya to dig her nails in the sheets. Her skin crawled in disgust at his touch. Her soul clenched in pain and fear.

"Why did you leave home that day? I have been looking for you everywhere since that day," Kaya neither answered, nor looked at him.

"We are sorry, Mr Haiden," Zia said. That man, Paul, darted his watery eyes at her.

"Kaya is in this state just because of me and I am really very sorry about it. I am genuinely guilty and sorry," Zia joined her hands in front of Paul. Her guilt was consuming her alive from inside. Her eyes watered.

"My wife is right, Mr Haiden. We are genuinely sorry for Kaya's state," Damien added. Paul sighed before focusing his eyes back at Kaya's bowed head.

"My Kaya is just like this from her childhood. She always thinks about others before herself," Paul uttered while circling his thumb against her cheek. Kaya shivered in horror.

"But where are her parents?" Damien asked. Paul turned his head towards him.

"Her parents died in a car crash when she was just 11. Probably this must be the reason, she turned so desperate to save your wife's life that she didn't care about herself," Paul trailed his gaze back at Kaya whose tears were silently rolling down from her eyes.

"She has no one in this world except me. I'm her father's, Ken Haiden's elder brother," 

The tears in Kaya's eyes turned aggressive, but that helpless girl couldn't say anything, not because she had lost her ability to speak but because she was terrified to speak against that man.

With each passing moment, Damien's and Zia's hearts were getting filled with more and more pity and sympathy for Kaya.

"How is her health now? Would she ever be able to talk?" Paul asked. Damien breathed out before answering.

"The doctors are going to try their best and we have full faith that Kaya will be able to talk soon,"

Kaya took her watery eyes upward and gazed at Damien. His words flickered a hope inside her. That man, Damien, radiated a beautiful warmth to her, like the tenderness of a guardian. Even his wife, Zia, was making her feel those amiable emotions which she had always wanted to feel from the day she had lost her parents.

"What is going to be the cost of her treatment? I mean….." Paul hesitated. Kaya was fast enough to understand what cunningness he was trying to do there.

"You don't have to worry about her treatment. I will cover all the expenses of her treatment, and me and my wife would be grateful if you let us take care of her well-being from now on, Mr Haiden," Damien said, glancing at his wife. His wife nodded at him in agreement. 

"I will be more than grateful to you both for this because I ……" Paul lowered his head.

"I could barely manage to pay for her basic livelihood. I know I shouldn't say this but your help will be more than appreciated," 

"Don't worry, Mr Haiden. From now on, Kaya is a part of Karlson's family, so we will do our best to cherish her in every possible way," Zia stated, while sending a warm smile to Kaya. Kaya's heart ached, at her words but she couldn't say anything to them.

She was gazing at Zia when Paul blocked her vision by standing in front of her.

"Hope my Kaya is going to get her voice back soon,"

Her existence quivered, hearing Paul uttering those words and especially the way he was gazing at her. She again just downcast her eyes and closed them, but there stood Damien who was keenly watching her every reaction.

After a week, Kaya got discharged from the hospital. Paul told that he was going to take her back to their home and Zia and Damien knew they had no say in it. 

Damien decided to drop them to their home to which Paul agreed, and Damien also noticed something really very unusual in her presence. Like not only her voice had turned silent but her entire demeanour had turned numb too. He couldn't understand what was exactly going inside her head.

Damien halted his car in front of the address which Paul was instructing him. All three of them got out of the car.

"This is our home," Paul spoke. Damien saw a small house in front of him.

"Please come inside, Mr Karlson,"

Damien nodded at Paul and then trailed his eyes at Kaya. Like usual, that girl had stopped taking her eyes upward from the ground and it was not settling well with him.

They entered that house. Damien found that that house just had one small bedroom and a bathroom. He silently observed everything.

"Please sit,"

"No, I have to go now. I will visit some other time, Mr Haiden," Saying that Damien turned towards Kaya. He walked towards her. Her head was still lowered.

Damien kneeled in front of her. He tenderly took her little palm in his.

"Kaya….."

She slowly took her upward finally and Damien turned bewildered, witnessing those tears glistening in her eyes. 

"Why are you crying, dear?" He asked her. She just shook her head and tightly clutched his hand, like she didn't want to let him go, but Paul bragged in and detached her hand away from Damien's.

"She is probably going to miss you and your wife. That's why," Paul said, beaming. Damien gazed into her watery eyes. He placed his palm over her cheek 

"You are always welcome to come into our home to meet us, my child. I and Zia will try our best to come here and meet you, so don't cry please," 

She just slowly nodded her head at him. Damien smiled and then got up on his feet. Maintaining his stature, he told Paul.

"Take care of her. You can contact me anytime if you need my help with anything. The doctors will visit her every day, and I will try to visit her soon,"

Paul dipped his head. Damien diverted his gaze at Kaya where he saw a tear slipping down from her eyes as she was silently staring at him. Damien understood at that moment that something was not right there. He identified fear and pain in her silence.

Twirling on his heels, he walked out of the door and Kaya just watched her only hope to escape from that treacherous pain leaving her alone to suffer there.

The door got closed and her glossy eyes finally met with those wicked orbs of Paul's. Horror washed over her, witnessing his clenched jaw and fisted palms.

"Your little game is over my Kaya,"

She immediately took back her feet. Her whole body was trembling in fear.

"What do you think by running away from here, you would be able to escape me?" A vicious grin formed on Paul's face, causing her soul to shudder.

"Did you forget what I did to you last time when you tried to escape?"

Her eyes burnt up in tears, recalling that day when he tried to cross all limits of humanity with her and how much his brutality had hurted, both her soul and body.

She joined her hands in front of him and shook her head vigorously. She opened her mouth but couldn't voice anything.

Paul chuckled, cunningly.

"It's better that you have lost your voice. I don't need to tape your mouth anymore to hold back your screams,"

She continued to walk backward until her back didn't get pressed against the wall. She clutched her hands tightly and begged him through her tears, but she knew that the animal in front of her was merciless because he had never shown his mercy to her before doing his cruelty on her.

Paul walked towards her and stood in front of her, while maintaining his vicious grin. Kaya fell on the ground and clutched her hands in front of him. She closed her eyes and started gasping while crying, realising what he was about to do to her.

"No one is going to save you from me, Kaya…" Paul lowered himself and stretched his hand towards her.

"No o…" Paul's words remained incomplete. His hands halted in the middle, hearing the door bursting open.

Kaya snapped her watery eyes open and her soul felt relief by watching that person standing at the door…..

Damien's emerald eyes had darkened with fury. Lifting his gun upward, he straight aimed it at Paul, freezing him in terror.