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" Don't forget to cook after you clean my chambers, do you get it Urvashi?"

Her husband said sternly while she just nodded her head and he left for his Rajsabha (Royal court).

She did as she was told.

Who would say that she is a queen, she doesn't even look sane anymore;

The dark circles under her eyes looks like a cemetery, in which she has buried all her dreams and hopes. Multiple fingerprints on her cheeks but she doesn't care about about her appearance anyway.

Her milky white skin covered with numerous bruises and wounds.

Exiting the chambers, she made her ways towards kitchen in her own thoughts wondering , why does her father King of Singhal.

Raja Chandrabhan Maurya married her to this man, he's her husband since two and half years,

King of Anantha Raja Vikrant Dev Singh.

She lost everything, her freedom, her appearance, her love.

She never questioned her family, but always accepted their every decisions, still she love her family alot there might be some circumstances or else her family wouldn't have sent her here. All of the Palace servants were looking at her while she was on her way completely unfazed of her wounds as she was used to it.

They were thinking how can their king be so cruel to his wife, once a fairy like princess has turned into an emotionless doll. Even their clothes looked better than her wrinkled clothes.

She entered the kitchen, looking around and the maid-servant acted like they never saw her, that's how she's surviving here.

She cooked kheer after completing the main course however lost in her thoughts the past life flashing infront of her eyes.

"Let me have a bite, little bird" he said whereas she wasn't ready to share her handmade food with him.

Shaking her head negatively, she said

"No no no, why would i share this kheer with you, aren't you a Crown Prince? Just go and order your assistant Yuvraj Sa, they'll cook for you; as for this kheer you won't get any of it and how many times do i have to tell you stop calling me names?"

He narrowed his eye at her making a plan in his mind. He said,

" Then what should call you? You don't look like a normal human being- she gasped while eating -so tiny and always jumping around in the corridor like they're your tree branches"

His plan of distracting her succeeded as she kept her bowl on the table, now ready to backfire.

" Veer, hum apko akhri baar keh rahe hain hume is naam se pukarna band kar dijiye hum ek rajkumari hai."
(Veer, please stop calling me by this name I'm a princess)

She said while moving towards him trying intermediate him.

Only if she knew that his heart started a marathon, having her so close to him was giving an excess to his eyes only to get lost in her honey ones, he bit his lip to control himself from kissing those red little cherries with this closeness he can discern that mole near her lips smirking at him. Ooh he so wants to make love with that mole.

He came out of his wild thoughts as she snapped her fingers. She said

" Where are you lost, do you even listen to what i just said?"

Saying this she kept her hands on her waist, now he faked glaring at her slowly moved his steps forward making her step backwards.

His eye's not leaving her's.

She supported her small figure with the help of the table, leaning back a little to leave a respectable distance between them.

He leaned towards her neck as his sharp nose tickled her earlobe, her spine shivered. He whispered huskily

" You're My Little bird, Ashi. No one in this world can stop me from calling you whatever i want, or would like me to close this cute little beek of yours."

The stormy grey gazing the honey filled ones. His dilated pupils screaming desire for her.

She felt his hands resting on the table; Caged between him and the table, her body wanted to sing with his every move. His arms brushed the side of her bare waist and blood rushed to her cheeks, goosebumps pebbled on her skin feeling shy all of a sudden. Started biting her lips nervously she grazed down on his feet, not having enough courage to look him in the eyes.

A small smile playing on his lips, feeling satisfied with the effects he has on her. He always gets what he wants.

"Mmmm, Ashi this kheer is delicious" as he pivots from her.

She looked up instantly. And there he is, eating her kheer peacefully, from her bowl with her SPOON. Bloody smirking at her.

She moved in a lightening speed to snatch it from his hand but he was faster than her, ate all her kheer in one go, she started hitting his shoulder whereas he laughed out loud.

THUMP

Urvashi Pov :-

A servent dropped some utensils.

I got back to my ugly reality, wiping those tears which i didn't know were dropping one by one. Completing my work i went away from the kitchen.

Why all of this is happening with me, what did i do to deserve this?

I sat down on a swing in my -no his chamber. I want to go back to maa sa, baba sa and bhai sa, even though they don't like me but at least they won't treat me like this.

My name is Urvashi Maurya -now dev singh. I am a Queen of Anantha, wife of the King Vikrant Dev Singh.....for name sake only because he never think of me as his wife but only as his slave, it was a political marriage that my parents had arranged. When we got married i knew that i can never fall in love him yet i thought we'll respect eachother, age gap won't effect things but how wrong i was,

I saw his ostensibly colour when he forcefully took my dignity on our wedding night, i can never forgive him for what he did and this cruelty continued to this day. I want him to die. Just want to kill him somehow. I hate him with all my might.

He has a leather hunter whenever i refuse for something or if he's angry then he'll hit me with it uncountably. Slapping me seems his daily doze. I don't have anywhere to go, Maa Sa and Baba Sa will face consequences if i tried to go back to Singhal. But i also can't live in this hell all my life. There has to be a way for my escape.

"URVASHI"

My heart started thumping loudly in fear, as i started moving towards the Library hurriedly. The moment i entered my face turned left as i felt sting on my right cheek. He slapped me again.

I lowered my head standing, poorly shivering with fear holding my cheek, the blood oozing out of it.

"Is this what you call cleaning?" He roared on my face.

Holding my elbow in a painful grip he jerked me towards his table. His books were scattered around on the table while other  books binding which was in the shelf were damaged, few pages flying around the room.

He grabbed my jaw in his hand squeezing my cheeks in a death grip and said,

" You still haven't learnt, huh"

"SAY SOMETHING YOU FOOL" he yelled

"J..jii...ji..I.i..di..dn't..do...ttthis" she muttered somehow, my jaw was hurting terribly.

"Stop lying, today I'll teach you how to be a disciplined wife so you won't try to be playful again" his angry eye's scaring me, indicating that he's thinking something crazy.

Still holding my elbow, he started dragging me towards his chambers, and threw me on the bed like i am a ragged doll.

I knew what's coming.

I closed my eyes in hope that the time would pass soon but deep down i knew it won't happen. A scream left my mouth as his hunter made contact with my skin.

The whole Palace got filled with my wailing and screaming.

Even those fearless soldiers were shivering praying to God to show some mercy on their Queen.

After hours of torture he left me on the bed and went out of the chambers while i was half conscious as the maid-servants came to clean me and apply healing paste on my fresh wounds. Their hands were shaking badly at the view of their Queen.

After some time they all left.

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Three days.

I've been unconscious for three days. Why don't he just kill me instead of this slow poisoning torture. I tried to get up but my legs are shaking.

Wrapping myself with a shawl i walked towards the Royal Garden which is just beside that impudent Woman's Palace. Yes, he does have a Mistress.

Her name is Niharika who once used to be my Best Friend, never in my life i ever thought that she could do something like this but she did.

I know the Library incident is linked to her and she's the one who filled ears of that wild man. As i was wondering around the garden i heard some muttering sound.

My curiosity took over me resulting my feets walked to that source. Only to find Vikrant and his Mistress or her former best friend eating eachother face out while hiding behind the bushes looking at them like that made her feel nauseous, if she can she would have beat them with her sandal.

Deciding to go back to chambers, i turned around but stopped when i heard Vikrant's words.

"Since two and half years that man is still on the battleground against Singhal Empire, why....for that worthless wife of mine.....hahahha.....he don't even know that i married her, took her in every possible way, now there's nothing for him to enjoy....hahahha" they both laughed

Dark pit of truth unraveled to me; eyes pooled with tears because her parents told her that he refused my marriage proposal because he love someone else and he will never marry me because he never thought of me like that, i was nothing more than his bestfriend's sister. And he will get married to that woman soon.

I still remember that day when i cried at the thought of him loving someone else.

My Veer, My love.

Still on the battlefield for me.

I gripped those bushes tightly in my palm, thorns of that bush pricked my skin but this pain was nothing infront of my already broken heart.

My focus moved towards them again, now that evil woman said

" My king, Do you know how easy it was to make her believe that he doesn't love her, her own mother made a trap for her.....hahah....they all hate her so much.....they betrayed her....but look at her, still love them like an idiot....from the moment i saw her the only thing that came in my mind was pure hate."

My ears wanted to bleed and this heart wrenching reality isn't helping even a bit.

Vikrant biting her neck while listening diverted from there and asked a question which i wanted to ask but couldn't, he said

" What do you mean by her mother? " While raising his eyebrows.

" It was her mother who asked me to join her plan in the first place, and told me to befriend her daughter....so i did whatever she planned...it worth to watch her cry." Niharika said while smiling evilly, taking his lips for another heated kiss as she pulled back to breathe.

" But one thing is really confusing how can a mother plot against her own daughter "

Vikrant said, wondered himself.

" Because she's not her real mother." Niharika said

The ground slipped beneath my feet, i can't believe it no no no NO, it's not possible.

"WHAT, then whose her mother?" He asked as he felt discussed at the thought of her being someone's dirty blood.

" She's a daughter of her father's Mistress, Rani Ma sa never mentioned her name but she used curse her alot that how her husband bought that dirt of a child in their palace and gave her the title of Princess " as she finished i turned around and ran away from there.

I don't know where I am going right now but i want to ran away from here.

I kept running untill my foot collided with a stone making me fall on my knees. The only question thundering in her mind was,

WHY

WHY

WHY

Why me, why my destiny is playing with my life, i am an illegitimate child. That's why everyone hated me in Singhal. But my Veer is the only who never hated me.

But what do i do now ?

I got up from the ground, started walking towards my left not even minding the direction, the chaos inside my didn't let me think anything else, i was just walking with no purpose, when i looked around i was at the entrance of the Royal Priest's Palace mistakenly.

Suddenly a voice stopped me.

I found Priest who was chanting some mantra, sitting on a rock, judging from his figure it was clear that he's been on penance for at least a hundred years, his body covered in grey ash. Skin sticking to his bones, proved that he didn't has a single drop of water or food through out these years.

He'll be furious if his penance got disturbed or worse he'll curse me.

I walked backwards trying not to make any noise, sweat beads forming on my forehead.

Just when i thought i got successful that priest opened his eyes, glanced at me. Suddenly, he stood up from that rock striding towards me, My heartbeat fasten at the thought of what he will do to me.

Apologizing seems to be the best option, however when i opened my mouth to speak but that priest showed his hand to stop me. He looked at my face like an eagle.

Finally he spoke,

"I've been waiting for you since 150 years, Rani Sa"

Thinks got more confusing for me, as he continued

"Aapka waqt aa chuka hai Rani Sa, ab aapka yaha rahene ka samay smapt hua, jald hi aap nayi chunautiyon saamna karengi." he said while looking direct in my eyes

(Your time has come Rani Sa, now your time of staying here is over, soon you will find yourself facing new challenges.)

I watched him in confusion whatever he just said went above my head.

" Whatever you have been suffering from i know everything of it, but the question is what do you want right now ? " He asked, making me freeze in the spot.

"What.....do..i...want..?" I asked myself, what is that thing i want right now, closing my eyes in frustration chanting questions again and again.

In a thunderbolt speed those stormy grey eyes came in my mind,

I looked at the Priest again, as he knew that i have decided so he took out a bracelet which was tied around his wrist, it appeared more of a talisman than a bracelet to my left wrist.

He asked again.

"What do you want ?" He raised his eyebrows.

I stated without a hint of fear,

"MY VEER" looking at him with great intensity.

The priest gestured me to held out my right hand, i did as he asked.

Tying that bracelet around my wrist, he started chanting mantra for a few moments; after he left my wrist.

"Go back to your chamber, Rani Sa " he said.

I looked at him before diverting towards the exit, but i turned again to ask something but there was no one.

I thought of calling out for him but deciding opposite to it, i left.

Entering my chambers, i laid down on the bed staring at the huge chandelier, my mind replaying all words in my ears repeatedly. My sleep was far away from my orbs. My hand went to other one unknowingly i started twisting that bracelet around my wrist.

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