He’s My Delilah chapter 31-A Conspiracy

Ayan’s POV (unedited)
After several days of endless travelling, I was tired,exhausted, heartbroken, homesick and Shafiq’s torture was nothing. The way I missed everyone was always hurting me,especially Falcon.
I prayed everyday that they were all safe, that they made it out alive and that if I ever made it back home,Jalen would still be there.
The thing that pained me the most was my mother! She must be devasted!loosing her son for the second time must really be killing her. Be strong mother, please be strong. I thought.
Shafiq must really be crazy, he chose to travel Northwards, the uninhabited North desert which had terrible sandstorms and horrible temperature. It was rumoured that only the blue people of the Tuareg tribe lived here.
Everyday,Shafiq didn’t waste time taunting and mocking me. I no longer cared for his words, the man I love hated me and nothing else mattered.
We finally reached a kind of place and it looked like people lived here surprisingly. Tents were pitched up and people were milling around.
When we approached them,Shafiq spoke to them and I couldn’t believe what he said! He told them I was for sale! The bastard was trying to sell me! I glared at him when he was paid.
He dragged me and tied me to a pole outside while they feasted.
They kept on dancing funny ritual like dances and I found myself laughing. There was a fire place and the danced all night. A few times during the night,I found myself dosing off.
Eventually, the noise died down and everyone was passed out from drinking and partying.

I woke up when I felt the sun shinning on my face. I blinked my eyes open and looked around, seems I was the only one still awake, the rest were still passed out lying carelessly around.
After about thirty minutes,they started stirring awake, Shafiq came to me,
“Finally today is the day I get rid of you! Its me who hired people to kill you in the oasis by the way,and set you up for poisoning Makik” he says
“You bastard!!!!” I say shocked
“You don’t deserve Malik and if he isn’t mine,then no one can have him” he says
“You fool! You started a war over someone who doesn’t even love you!” I reply
“Ohhh! And he loves you? You’re a cheap whore!spreading your legs for any man with power! I bet Malik hates you now,he is so possessive, you know that don’t you?” He says laughing
I blink as tears roll down my face,
“Am not a whore! I was trying to save him!!!” I say
“Keep believing that, it doesn’t even matter anymore,no one will think to look for you this side of the desert,no one will remember you, you will be gone forever! Your poor mother!” He says
“Don’t talk about my mother!” I shout
“Do you want to know how you got to Jalen with that fool Yasin???” He asks
I keep quiet but look on in curiosity.
“Well,it was all planned twenty years ago by the general and a minister in Ramah. Turns out the general loved Princess Sharifa but the king refused to give him his sister and she chose the vizier over him. In revenge,he kidnapped the king’s son with inside help and months later when he heard the princess was expecting, he followed her to the desert and took her child. He sold both of you to slave traders.” Shafiq narrates.
I shake my head in shock! What an ugly conspiracy!!!!!!
“So,goodbye Ayan,this is where you belong” he says and starts walking off.
“Please,don’t leave me here!” I try to plead but he just walks away laughing.
The Tuareg are nomads who move from one place to another. Seems their time camping here was over and they were moving on. They were busy packing and folding tents.
They were going deeper into the desert! No one will ever find me! I start panicking.
Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blows and the sands starts stirring up with ruthless force!
The Tuareg all start running for dear life, forgetting about me,but am tied up! I try to loosen the ropes but they are too tight! By now, the sandstorm is sweeping and burying everything in it’s path.
I feel my lungs burning for more oxygen, the Sand is burying me!
When I can nolonger keep my eyes open, I embrace the darkness.

Can anyone guess how many chapters are left……next chapter the correct answers gets a dedication. ….