Agam POV 

I open my eyes slowly, there is thump in my head giving me a headache. 

Everything looks blurry and I blink my eyes couple times to clear my vision. 

I try to move my hand which is taking effort, it feels like I have been sleeping in the same position for too long. 

My movement feels languid, slow, lazy and uncoordinated. 

Even my mind feels uncoordinated and lazy. 

What happened? Why am I lying down? I can hear the murmuring sounds in the room. 

I close my eyes to collect myself and then open my eyes which scare me because my family and friends are looking down on me forming a circle. 

They are looking at me like I am a unique species. 

I ask, 

'Why are you all looking at me like this?' 

They move back at that, I see the royal doctor coming forward, he helps me to sit up. 

He moves back and suddenly Naina rushes to hug me while she cries as she says, 

'Hum sab kitna darr gaye the, par bhagwan ki daya se aap thik ho gaye.' 

'We all were so scared, but by the grace of God you are cured.' 

I can't understand what she is talking about, wait why am I here instead of my room with Mohini? 

Naina moves back after hugging me. 

I look around but I can't find Mohini anywhere, where is she? Is she okay or not? What happened? 

Bua-sa comes forward with tears in her eyes, caresses my face and says, 

'Taras gaye the aapki aankhein dekhne ko, bhagawan ne humari mannat puri kar di isse adhik hum kuch nahi chahte.' 

'I longed to see your eyes, God has fulfilled my wish, I want nothing more than this.' 

I nod but my eyes still try to find Mohini, panic is rising in me at the thought of her away from me. 

Bua-sa frowns and asks me, 

'What are you trying to find, Agam?' 

I reply while shaking my head, 

'I was just... looking for Mohini. Where is she? Why she is not here?' 

This changes her expression into furious one and she spits out angrily, 

'Don't talk about her, you are here because of her only. I just wish I had some way to keep her away from you.' 

I frown at her when the memories slam to me which makes my head pain and I wince making everyone worried. 

I just raise my hand to stop everyone while I close my eyes. The pain slowly goes away. 

I look at Viraj and demand, 

'Where is she? Is she injured? Did you have her checked out?' 

I tried to protect her but no one was there when my eyes closed. 

Bua-sa looks at me with slacked jaw. I focus on Viraj who just shakes his head and makes calm down gesture with his hand. 

That indicates me to talk about it later and if he is so calm then she must be uninjured and safe. 

Bua-sa recovers and says in a hard tone, 

'I won't allow her to come near you, till you are recovered I will take care of you.' 

And without even listening to me she stands up and leaves the room. 

What has happened till I have been recovering? 

Bapusaa comes forward and says sternly, 

'I think you should rest right now, you have just woken up plus your injuries are not fully healed, the wounds are deep so restrict your motions for few days.' 

Then everyone leaves me except Viraj and Ekansh. 

Ekansh steps forward and says with protuding his lower lip out, 

'Lets take you to your room, I have missed you and our adventures in bedroom.' 

A crash sound comes from the door and I look around them to see Swati standing there with wide eyes and metal stand on the floor. 

I lean my head back and ask God, why me? Why it has to be Swati who listens these embarrasing things? 

I glare at Ekansh while Swati stumbles on her words, 

'I..I t...think it is not a good time, I will come back after some time.' 

Then she practically rushes out from there. 

I ask Viraj still glaring at Ekansh, 

'Iske munh ke liye kahi aisa dhaaga milta hai kya, jisse hum iska munh sil sake.' 

'Is there any such thread available for his mouth, with which I can sew his mouth?' 

Viraj replies, 

'Jiss din aapko woh dhaaga mil jaye toh hume bhi bataiyega, hume bhi uski avashyakta hai.' 

'The day you get that thread, please let me know too, I also need it.' 

Ekansh acts like we are discussing how is the day. 

I stand up with both of their help and we go to my room. The wound is hurting, after sitting down, I slowly move my shoulder to relieve the pain. 

I ask them, 

'How many days was I asleep?' 

They both sit on the two edges of the bed and Ekansh replies, 

'Approx 11 days.' 

I frown at that then ask the question I have been dying to ask, 

'Now tell me where is Mohini? Why didn't she come to see me and sent Swati instead?' 

When they don't answer and look at each other instead, I poke them further, 

'Kya Bua-sa ne unhe aane se mana kiya?' 

'Did aunt forbid her to come?' 

When they still don't answer and just stare at me like a fool, I frustratedly shout ask them, 

'Doesn't she want to see me? Is she disappointed that I survived? Why don't she come to me? I want to know what happened?' 

At last my voice becomes whisper because I just expressed my insecurities I have about her. 

Is she done with me? I didn't even got the time to make it up to her for my mistakes. 

I look down at my fidgeting hands in my lap to avoid meeting their eyes. 

I notice that the atmosphere and mood both dropped consistently and there is another type of silence like they are waiting for me to either elaborate or another breakdown. 

I feel something stuck in my nose so I sniffle soundly and a moment later a hand comes in my sight. 

I frown at the hand, it starts scratching my hand then tries to grab my nose. 

I jerk back and look at Ekansh, Viraj is also looking at him like he lost his damn brain. 

He sees our look and gives his What-have-I-done? gesture, innocently pulling his hand back saying, 

'What? What did I do? I was just checking without embarrasing him?' 

Viraj questions him equally beweildered, 

'What in the world could you check like that and what in the world were you checking?' 

Ekansh glares at him and says, 

'If he wants to be embarassed then I won't stop him.' 

He focuses on me and asks me, 

'Are you crying?' 

I jerk back at that and answer him, 

'What? No, something was stuck in my nose so I sniffled trying to clear my nose.' 

He gets that 'oh I get it look' and says, 

'I thought maybe you are going to cry because she didn't come for you.' 

I glare at him then shrug and say, 

'Forget about Mohini, lets talk about more pressing issues. Bring me my dagger, first.' 

It gives me the sense of groundness, Ekansh hands me my dagger with which I start playing to release my stress. 

The frown like they don't believe me and I just continue without giving them the chance to speak, 

'We have to figure out, that out of 4 kingdoms who attacked me and Mohini.' 

Viraj had warned me that they will try to attack me and try to postpone my coronation. 

And I like a fool served myself to them on a silver platter. 

I should have willed myself strong and stopped Mohini from taking me to that alone place. 

But since the initiation was made by her, I couldn't jeopardize the perfect opportunity to make her mine. 

She herself allowed to let me touch her, she herself touched me like that. 

I didn't get a drop of attention from her in the place so her giving me attention there was like giving water to a thirsty man after many days. 

And I payed for that. 

I regret not stopping Mohini but I don't regret taking those arrows for her. 

And now she doesn't even want to see me, I don't know where has she gone. 

I shake my head and focuses on them to see they haven't spoken anything, so I ask them, 

'Kya hua? Hume pata karna hai ki ye hamla kisne kiya hai aur dusra tarika apna na hoga, unka vyapar rokne ka.' 

'What happened? We have to find out who has carried out this attack and find another way to stop their business.' 

Viraj looks thoughtful for a minute then he smiles and says, 

'Ab uski chinta karne ki koi avashyakta hai.' 

'There is no need to worry about that now.' 

I ask him suspiciously, 

'Why?' 

He looks me in the eye and answers, 

'Your wife took care of it.' 

I frown at that and stand up suddenly asking him, putting the dagger on the bedside table not wanting to  hurt anyone, 

'Kya kiya unhone? Aur ab hume sach sach bataiye ke woh kaha hai?' 

'What did she do?' And now tell us the truth where is she?' 

Ekansh says nonchantly, 

'We never refused to tell you but you didn't gave us the chance to speak.' 

I spear him with my most angriest glare. 

Suddenly a voice speaks from the door, 

'Agar aapki anumati ho toh hum aapko saari sacchai bataye.' 

'If you allow me, I will tell you the whole truth.' 

I look there to find Swati standing there and I say, 

'Anumati hai.' 

'Allowed.' 

She comes and sits down on the floor facing on the bed side where I am sitting, Viraj and Ekansh are sitting opposite of me. 

She tucks her face in the dupatta in a way that the side of her face where Viraj and Ekansh are sitting is hidden, while my side of the face is open. 

I roll my eyes at that, she doesn't take the dupatta when these two are not here. 

I think they really scare her with the way they talk with me and she has witnessed more than my likeness. 

She starts, 

'The person who attacked you was from Malwa with the help of Kamal Nath, which we figured out.' 

Neither person's shock me, but the news they figured out does shock me. 

I ask her, 

'How?' 

She explains, 

'When we had gone to Chaar Bazaar we thought that you knew the reason to meet Amar Shekhar by Naina Rajkumari but she told us that Avantika Rajkumari was the one who told you as she was spying on us on the say of yours.' 

Then she goes into detail about how Mohini handled Avantika and got the truth out. 

Which blows my mind, I didn't know she was feeling so murderous. 

She says, 

'Bai-sa was trying to find your blue ring when she found the grant where you had stopped the trade of Malwa temporarily.' 

I move my eyes at that because I don't know how to explain that without upsetting her and Mohini. 

She goes on after a pause, 

'She decided to get crowned without you.' 

At that I whip my head at her with shocked eyes. I didn't expect that. 

She tells me how she blew everyone's mind by telling the legislation and convincing my father to coronate her. 

She then explains that after getting coronated Mohini passed the royal grant which makes her the spokesperson for Mohini in the royal court. 

And then Mohini passed the grant with the seal of Queen of Suryagarh to stop the trade of other kingdoms who are not in alliance treaty. 

Well, that does give me a shock. 

Then she tells me about the Prince of Avsari, how he disrespected her and how Mohini put him in his place. 

I am angry at the disrespect that the prince gave to Mohini. 

But I am equally proud and blown by Mohini at how she dealt with him with her sharp mind. 

My respect for her has risen to another level. 

I say, 

'I am proud of Mohini.' 

Ekansh says, 

'Yes, we were also feeling very proud of her.' 

I tell them with anger simmering inside, 

'Agar hum vahan hote to unke prati anadar ka koi bhi shabd bolane se pahale woh mar chuka hota.' 

'If I had been there, he would be dead before he uttered any word of disrespect for her.' 

I will get my time with him, no doubt. 

Swati continues to tell that after coronation, she found out about the Amar Shekhar fiasco. 

I don't understand why she is so obssessed with the ring. I ask Swati, but she simply says that I have to ask that from Mohini, so I decide that I will ask her when I see her. 

She continues to tell how she ordered the commander to find the culprits aiding Kamal Nath and prepare 30 soldiers for her. 

I cough, so Swati hands me a glass of water, and I drink while listening. 

She goes on that the next day of the coronation, she took the group of soldiers to Malwa. 

Hearing that the water in my mouth got sprayed on Ekansh. 

He shouts, 

'Agam, what are you doing?' 

I ignore him, wipe my mouth with my hand and stand up abruptly, questioning them, 

'Mohini iss samay Malwa mein hain aur yaha hum kahani sunao khel, khel rahe hai.' 

'Mohini is currently in Malwa and we are playing the storytelling game.' 

They look at each other. 

I breathe deeply and say calmly to Swati, 

'You can go now, Swati.' 

Before going she turns and says, 

'She is not in Malwa, she is on her return journey.' 

I ask her with my temper flaring, 

'How do you know?' 

She smiles simply and replies, 

'Because I trust my Rani-sa when she promised to you that she will come back in one piece.' 

She walks out. Her words calm down the anger slightly. 

I turn to both of them and ask, 

'How can you let her leave like that? Don't you know that she is unsafe right now, even after the coronation and decision date?' 

Viraj replies, 

'She left before anyone woke up plus we were already tired of the whole thing.' 

Frustration was visible in his tone. Ekansh tries to calm me down and says, 

'Didn't you hear that she promised to come back to you in one piece?' 

That only ignites my anger even more and I tell him angrily, 

'Kya aapko lagata hai ki hume iss baat ki chinta hai ki vah vahan haar jaengi aur mar jaengi?' 

'Do you think I am worried that she will lose there and get dead?' 

He slowly nods his head and doesn't meet my eyes. 

At his response, I look at him with equal frustration and anger, I move my hand to grab his neck but curl my fingers away while trying to calm down. 

I turn away, after calming down I turn to look at him and say, 

'I have full faith that she will defeat everyone there because I have seen her practising and her skills show her experience with swords.' 

He smiles at that and asks in a joking manner, 

'Then are you afraid that she won't come back to you?' 

When I just glare at him, he wipes his smile at that, then I say, 

'I am worried that Ramaji Rao will find her and she loves, trusts her brother too much that she will follow him anywhere without even questioning him. And when she will realise it will be too late.' 

I sit down with my head in my hands and admit one thing that I postponed so many times, 

'Hum nahin kho sakte jaise humne apni Maa ko khoya hai. Woh humari hava hai jisake bina hum nahin reh sakte.' 

'I can't lose her like I lost my mother. She is my air that I can't live without.' 

A painful tightness forms in my chest at the thought of losing her. 

Viraj puts his hand on my shoulder, 

'Don't worry, that day only I sent some of my spies after her to keep an eye on her, but don't interfere.' 

Ekansh says solemnly, 

'You can't do anything till then, so I advise you to take care of yourself for her.' 

I nod my head, I have faith in her. 

I will wait for her. 

After 3 days of waiting, I have become impatient. 

Where is she? Why hasn't she arrived by now? 

I am going out of my mind with worry. 

I am in the garden with Bapusaa and Royal Priest to decide an auspicious date for my coronation. 

My wounds are still hurting a lot. 

Viraj and Ekansh are also here with me. They had told me to rest, but I was going out of my mind while waiting for her. 

So I decided to busy myself with Bapusaa. 

Viraj says low enough for only three of us to hear, 

'You can at least pretend that you like to be here.' 

Ekansh laughs low and says, 

'He is resembling his grandfather right now, with an awful frown and murderous expression.' 

I glare at both of them. 

Royal Priest and Bapusaa stand up, so we also stand up. 

I turn around to find Mohini entering the garden. 

She is dressed in a beautiful royal blue lehenga that I chose for her for the coronation. 

She is a sight for sore eyes. 

She looks up and our eyes met, she stops dead in her tracks, she looks me up and down then again lock eyes with me. 

Her eyes fill with tears, and her whole body trembles. 

She rushes to me and collides with me and I have enough time to prepare myself for her launch. 

I wrap my arms around her and close my eyes. 

I didn't know how much I was wound tight until she came into my arms. 

I hug her tightly. 

One word to describe this feeling would be, 

Sukoon. 

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