Tonight the moon was missing from the sky. Like it has covered itself with a veil of darkness. Only the stars were shining and adding beauty to the dull sky.

Under the dark sky on the side of the barren and empty road five luxurious cars were parked, one of them looked more luxurious and eye-catching than the other four.

Some men came out of the cars and stood on the sides of the road with their heads down and hands clasped together in respect. A man opened the car door for their capo.

Sabiq came out of the car and without looking at any of his men he walked ahead until he found a peaceful place where he could connect with his almighty.

He faced Makkah and taking his god's name he started to pray the fifth prayer of the day by kneeling on the ground, forgiving the world around him. Rightnow at this moment it was only him and his god. He was not a rich and dangerous mafia, he was one of god's children.

All the men waited for their capo with their heads bowed.

At the end of his prayer Sabiq turned his head to right and then left and finally finishing his prayer he got up to his feet. He kissed the black locket which he is wearing on his neck. His father had given him this locket. He used to say, Sabiq, it is a locket from Khwaja ji, it will always save you from evil eyes.

He chuckled, only if his father knew that the eight year old child whom he was trying to save from evil eyes will himself become an evil and rule the mafia world.

"this one's for you dad," he said looking up at the dark sky. Once again kissing the locket he retrieved towards his car ready to finish the motherfuckers who were brave enough to kidnap and sell the woman of his den.

His gait changed, the aura around him turned dark and the glint of valor in his blue gray eyes shone like the shining edge of the sword. He was no more the man who was in Ibadat (prayer). Now he was the man who was ready to taste the blood.

The men working for him for more than ten years shivered when he approached them with that dark and mysterious look on his face. No one knew the name of their capo. It was only their capo for them. No one even the man who has seen him since the day he rightfully owned the mafia throne, knows his real name, where he came from and what his story was.

If mystery has another name it must be Sabiq.

"Capo. You were absolutely right. After selling three hundred women to Dubai's brothel. The white eyed man. Your old and favorite enemy is ready to kill another sixteen children tonight only for the well being of his human trafficking syndicate," Arjun, one of his most trusted man in his clan, informed him about the deeds of that sinner which he was already aware of.

Sabiq knows every move of his rivals like the back of his hand

A devilish smirk crept on his lips as it was the night he was waiting for a long time. The night of new moon, the night he has chosen to put a full stop on the life story of that fucking Janaab.

"His superstition will summon his doom," he chuckled darkly, which was followed by the chuckles of the men of his clan.

His dark chuckles turned into a mocking laughter and one of his men who was new to his clan followed after him. He looked at everyone while laughing. He was sure they would win when suddenly Sabiq stopped laughing and killed him.

The bullet fired right into his mouth and his laugh turned dead followed by his body. He dropped dead on the ground and the blood coming out of his mouth drawed the yellow sand red.

"Thirteen. Now that's my favorite number," he said with a slight grin and entered his car.

Now the count of fourteen men has come down to thirteen.

Everyone gaped at the dead body of their comrade on the ground. They were shocked and frightened.

Arjun who was quiet till now commanded in a robotic tone,"No one follows after what our capo does. If he laughs, be quiet. If he shouts, be quiet. If he kills, be quiet," it was a lesson everyone should learn and never forget.

With that said he also entered the car. Everyone gulped and looked at the dead body one last time.

The body was on the side of the road. As each of the cars crushed it under its weight. His only crime was he laughed with his capo.

"Do you want to feed on him ?" Sabiq grinned at his Altamash who was sitting beside him on the car seat.

He only chuckled at his Altamash and freed him to go out and eat from the dead body till its heart's content. Altamash loves to pray especially on human beings but he loves it more when he feeds on Sabiq's pray.

Altamash, the Indian vulture was happily feeding on the dead man.

Fifteen minutes later the cars stopped outside the den India's biggest human trafficking syndicate. And as the man in the leather jacket came out of the car the hell broke loose.

Blood blood and blood everywhere and in the span of thirty seconds two hundred dead bodies dropped dead on the ground.

Thirteen verses hundreds. It was unfair but not for the clan whose leader was Sabiq.

The den was looking like a graveyard. Alas, it was.

"Free them," he ordered his men and two of them ran to open the kids and women from the iron chains and bars.

"Arjun it's your responsibility to take every innocents out of this den while I took care of our dear Janaab," he looked at Arjun who nodded and echoed,"Yes capo," in reply.

A half dead man more like a butcher who cuts kids in pieces only to satisfy their desire gathered his strength and with a mutton knife in his hand he tried to plunge into Sabiq who was giving his commands to his soldiers while showing his back to him.

But before he could kill him with a knife Sabiq turned to him and looked at him with a calm gaze.

"Come on. Kill me," he smiled to the half dead fucker.

The man raised his hand to kill him with a knife but Sabiq held his hand tightly and turned his hands backward to his own face. The man was screaming like a dying dog when the tip of the knife got closer to his eyes.

And in the next moment his screams died down for a moment when the knife plunged right into his eyes. Blood came out of his eyes but Sabiq did not stop there as the man dropped dead on the ground.

He took the knife from his and again plunged the knife in his eyes until his eyes did not come out of his skull.

"An addition to my collection," Sabiq said, smiling darkly as he kept the bloody eyeballs inside his leather jacket.

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Chandni was extremely scared when the white eyed animal sitting beside her raised the knife to kill the baby or in his word sacrifice her.

She did not believe that even now in the twenty-first century there are people who believe in all these things. But obviously she was wrong as right at this moment in front of her eyes this man is going to kill the baby girl.

"no.." she cried when the knife was only an inch away from her and the baby but then she heard the sound of a gun firing and suddenly it was chaos.

She sat there with her eyes closed hiding the baby close to her heart. It was a matter of ten seconds and the chaos turned into silence.

A deep silence which could make someone die if they were in that silence's presence for more. She opened her eyes and looked beside her. The white eyed animal was on the floor and was trembling half dead like a dying dog with blood coming out of his eyes. It was disgusting. Her nose wrinkled, the smell of his blood was as disgusting as the smell of his body.

She was sure he was not a human.

She looked down at the baby, she was sobbing lightly as if she knew they were facing the worst side of the world and came back from facing death.

She tugged the baby again to her chest and cried. She knew tonight was going to be hard but she never thought it would be this difficult.

"Thank you god," she whispered as the tears of happiness and fright cascaded down her eyes behind that white mask.

"What do we have here," she frowned and her cries stopped when she heard a mocking and sinister voice. She opened her eyes and found a handsome and scary man standing a small distance ahead of her.

Her mouth parted in shock and her eyes widened when she looked at the man.

He was the most handsome man she had ever seen in her life till now. He was looking dead in her eyes as if he was going to kill her. That thought made her mouth shut and she looked here and there ignoring his scary eyes.

His loud footsteps thundered on the ground as he walked to her with his lion like and she trembled from inside only looking at the way he was walking. He was dangerous and insensitive. She knew he would kill her in a second, in a most cruel way and he is going to do that now.

"What's your name, boy? " Chandni licked her lips and looked here and there trying to find her friend among the dead bodies.

She was sure he was alive. She will kill him by her own hands if he dies without her permission.

Sabiq did not like it a bit when the boy before him ignored him and looked here and there. But he took some deep breaths to calm himself. He wanted to play with this boy a little,"I asked you something you fucker," he said, smiling mockingly.

Chandni flinched hearing his voice. His voice was sexy and dark. A dangerous combination which she was despising to witness at this particular moment.

"Toni," she said, maintaining her manly voice and tried her best to ignore looking him in the eyes.

"Toni," he mumbled his name, tasting how his name sounded from his mouth. Chandni thinned her lips behind that mask and thought about the ways to get out from here with the kids and with Affan obviously.

Though the man before her was handsome like some prince but the filthiness in his eyes told her that he is here to kill and she was his next target.

The men in black leather jackets were thirteen in total.

Thirteen the number of devils.

And by their faces they were looking like the devil who had come down to the earth from hell.

With the dark green and black tattoos inked on their faces and with their tall and rigid bodies they were resembling the images of monsters from Greek mythology.

All of them have one more thing in common. Their hands were soaked with blood. Fresh blood which was dripping on the ground leaving its trail behind.

Chandni had the idea that they are a part of some gang. And most probably they will get all the babies and women from here and sell them in black market. Initially she had to save the kids from Janaab but now she has to save them from this good looking devil.

"Are you deaf? I fucking told you something!," Sabiq shouted venomously and Chandni came out of her thought. She looked at him and whispered,"wh-what? "

"Open the mask."

He said and she froze. "I said fucking open the mask and show me your bloody face!"

But Chandni did not move a little. It was the first time someone was disobeying Sabiq, the mafia king like that hurted his ego very much.

He greeted his teeth together as the fire anger raced through his nerves with the hot blood and he snatched the mask from her face.

Chandni only blinked, extremely shocked to even say anything. Was she caught?

Sabiq was shocked. The boy before him has the softest feature with the smoothest and most innocent face. His eyes were honey brown with long eyelashes. His lips were light brown with a little plumpness and lots of softness. He looked like a pretty Assamese doll with short hair. Sabiq shook his head and grimaced at the comparison his mind made.

"Little boy. You look like a pretty girl,"Sabiq said and Arjun laughed at that. The other men also started to laugh but one look from Sabiq and they shut up. They haven't forgotten what happened before coming here.

"I am a boy,"Chandni said and glanced at Janaab who was shivering like a leaf on the ground half dead.

Sabiq followed her line of sight and clenched his jaw at the half dead bastard.

"You work for him?" Sabiq said more like a statement than a question. Chandni was silent and not able to say anything.

"Were you going to kill the baby?"he asked and raised his thick eyebrows towards the baby in her hands. However Chandni was silent; she only looked down at the baby in her hand and tightened her hold on her.

Sabiq has seen the innocence in his eyes but the way he was not saying anything to him made him believe that this innocent looking young boy was also part of the cult who works under the white eyed animal.

"Okay boy," Sabiq jumped on his feet and exclaimed, happily. "The chit chat time is over. It's time for some action," he said and Chandni visibly gulped looking at the evilness in his eyes.

"Don't try to look away or it will be you in his place," he said, blankly as he looked dead in her eyes and started doing his favorite work.

Chandni did not dare to even blink and looked right at whatever Sabiq was about to do.

Sabiq turned his attention to the man who was dying on the ground," well hello to my old friend. How are you?" he grinned at Janaab and grasped his long dirty hair in a tight grip making the man groan in pain and vomit more blood.

"Jaineb, do you remember the good old days? How you used to steal from me and earn a good beating after getting caught," Sabiq chuckled and shook his head, remembering his young days.

He looked up at the ceiling as if he was reliving the old times and pushed his thumb in Jaineb's eyes with full force. Sabiq smiled and put more pressure as Jaineb's screams echoed in the hall.

"You remember how I used to forgive you? after all you are older than me," he chuckled as his eyes popped out of its socket and a scream followed after it.

It was Chandni who screamed when one of his eyeballs rolled up near her.

All the men snapped their gaze towards her. It was the scream of a girl.

They were shocked to know that it was a girl who was sitting beside Jaineb but Sabiq had turned blind and deaf. His mind was only in killing Jaineb who has killed thousands of kids brutally.

Sabiq grasped the same knife with which Jaineb was about to kill that baby girl,"But then you stole her from me and sell her into prostitution," he whispered in his ears, blankly and shoved the knife right into Jaineb's heart.

Chandni screamed and screamed getting away from the killer and the animal. Before her eyes the unknown man was carving Jaineb's body. Cutting it like a well experienced butcher and in a minute there was a beating heart before her eyes.

Her mouth hung open and she forgot to breathe as she looked at the bloody heart in front of her.

Sabiq's hands were full of blood like he was painting with a color red. "Good bye, Jaineb '' he said and threw his body in the fire pit which was burning for the ritual of sacrifice.

Chandni saw the man burning alive in the fire pit with blank eyes. Her mind was blank. Nothing but numb.

She came out of the blankness when she felt a tug in her hand. She looked at Sabiq who was trying to get the baby girl from her hold,"Give me the baby," he said, touching her with his bloody hands.

"No," she yelled, getting away from him. Chandni noticed that all the other fifteen babies were missing from the room. She was right they are also a human trafficking gang.

She once again looked at Sabiq's bloody eyes and then at his hands. After gathering all her courage and strength she got up from the floor and ran away from him as far as she could.

Sabiq shook his head, chuckling at the stupid boy,"Well I love run and catch," he shrugged, innocently.

Her breathing was uneven as she ran through the dark corridors. Everything was smelling like rotten meat making her want to puke. But she held the baby girl tightly to her chest and ran to find a hide out for them.

She came across a blue door which was slightly open. She thanked her god and entered the room.The room smelled of urine and poop. She clamped her mouth tightly and gulped down the vomit in her throat.

The only source of light was the lantern at one corner of the room. The candle inside the lantern was on the verge of ending but it helped her to see the room a bit clearly. A line of old and broken cribs were lined on the sides of the room making her believe that they keep babies here.

She walked to one of the better looking cribs and arranged the shredded baby blanket on the iron crib she laid the baby on.

"You are safe with me," she whispered, smiling at the little girl who was looking at her with big eyes.

Chandni gasped in awe when the baby giggled back to her. She noticed the baby girl had a piercing on her earlobe and was wearing a golden earring. It was making her look more cute, Chandni could not control herself anymore as she pampered the little baby with kisses which earned her loud giggles from the baby.

Chandni smiled but then suddenly she heard someone whistling and she knew it was.

Sabiq walked leisurely while whistling an old tune with a gun in his hand, ready to kill that young boy.

He stopped in front of the door where he knew the boy was. Sabiq could hear the sound of his deep uneven breathing. The boy was shit scared he would not be surprised if the boy had already peed in his pants.

He opened the door with a devilish smirk on his face but when he saw what the young boy was doing his blood boiled.

The bastard was trying to kill the baby. He was pushing the rough blanket right into the baby's mouth.

Sabiq aimed at him.

Chandni was shivering, feeling his gaze on her but she tried her best to remain calm. She was completely drenched with sweat and fear. Her back was to him as she wrapped the old blanket nicely around the baby.

She was ready to hold the baby in her arms and again sprint out from here but before that she felt a pain shooting through her left shoulder. And the next thing she knew was her dropping on the floor with a thud and blood pouring out from her shoulder.

The baby girl cried hearing the sound of firing when Sabiq shooted her savior. Sabiq was about to walk to the baby when he saw it.

Chandni's wig came out by the force she dropped down on the floor and her dark hair sprawled open.

At last Sabiq also knew that it was never a young boy. It was a girl whom he had killed. Never raise your hand on a woman, it was his belief but tonight he killed one.

He ran to her and grasping her long hair in his hand he turned her around. And for a moment forget to breathe.

She was the most gorgeous girl.

Her hair having the tints of blood was touching her waist. She has a soft feature.

He had noticed it before but he was admiring it now.

The bangs over her forehead shaped her face beautifully and only one word left past his mouth.

"Mehzabeen.. "

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