Mohini POV 

I hand him the paper after writing on it. 

Do you always take bath, after removing all your clothes? 

When we came out of the pool, his earlier comment bothered me that all the attendees had seen him in this state. 

So I took out the paper from the stack kept on the dressing table. 

Swati always make sure that I have stacks of paper in the room at various place for easy availability. 

She also keeps a stack and ink in the kitchen if I want to communicate with them and she is not there. 

He reads it and his mouth covers in a smirk. He hands the paper back to me and says nonchantly, 

'Yes, always.' 

This information bothers me too much, I don't want anyone to see him like this. 

I scribble quickly and hand it to him, 

Even after marriage? 

He laughs at that casually, handing the paper back at me while I am fuming from inside at his casualness. 

He wears his rings and tells me casually looking in the mirror, 

'Yes, of course. I always keep my people entertained with best shows plus--' 

I am angry and the possiveness inside me is making me even more angrier. 

Without thinking I pick up his dagger on the dressing table and before he can finish, I push him against the wall and press the dagger at his neck. 

He turns shocked then a smirk curves his mouth while I press it harder, moving closer to him and he puts his hand up in mock surrender. 

I shake my head trying to convey through my eyes, No more of these shows. 

His smiles just widen more. 

He grabs my hand and slowly lowers it then takes the dagger out of my hand. 

He keeps the dagger aside while I am still looking at him with anger but I let him do this. 

Because I just wanted to warn him not to hurt him, hurt will come if he let any girl touch him like I do. 

Doesn't matter if she is an attendee helping her. 

Abruptly he spins me around to him so I am standing with my back to his front and he says putting his lips to my ear while I try to shy away, 

'Chinta mat kariye humari sherni, ye drishya, ye manoranjan sirf aapke liye hai.' 

'Don't worry my lioness, these scenes, this entertainment are just for you.' 

He then kisses my neck making pleasurable sensations flow through me and says, 

'I like it when my tigress gets wild. And I will be careful before standing beside any girl, I don't want to die just yet.' 

I smile secretly not showing him. 

He releases me and then sweetly kisses my cheeks then my forehead and with heated gaze he goes to walk out. 

While his sweet gesture makes the butterflies in my stomach go wild, I bit my lip at the pleasure his gesture erupted inside me. 

I look at him and smile shyly. He turns at the last moment and says, 

'Nobody has seen me like this in the bath, I don't give out shows unless I want to give, now, they are reserved for only you.' 

Then he walks out. 

I liked that he is only open for me and not for anyone else. 

I change into all blue lehanga with simple borders then without wearing jewelleries, I head to Avantika's room to know why she called me. 

But Swati intercepts me in between with wide smile stretched on her face and asks, 

'So how was it, Rani-sa?' 

I look in confusion and ask her in signs, 

'What are you talking about?' 

She gives me a look and says excitedly, 

'Interruption.' 

Oh she is talking about this. I sign happily, 

'It was perfect.' 

I can't tell her how much I wanted to slap myself for telling her to interrupt us. 

I was this close to scumbing to the pleasure and let him take me then and there. 

I blush thinking about the morning which Swati sees and asks me excitedly, 

'You have to tell me what happened? I have to live through you.' 

I frown at her and sign, 

'If you really want to know these things then tell me and I will set your marriage with someone.' 

She pouts at that and replies, 

'Now you are being cruel. I am not going to leave you until you can start to speak.' 

Yes, she has been working on that for me and she has made a promise to herself that she won't leave me behind until I can speak. 

Not because she pity me or sees me as someone incapable but rather she wants me to have one piece of myself out of those which I lost that day. 

I just smile at her and turns to go back to my room. 

She skips behind me touching my hair and says, 

'Let me dry your hair or they will get frizzled.' 

I just nod my head. 

We enter my room to find an unpleasant surprise there waiting. 

Chandani. 

I don't know what enmity I had with name Chandani in my previous birth that it is troubling me in this birth. 

Swati sees her and her eyes widen in anger. She steps forward and says, 

'Tumhare andar sharam naamk baat hai ki nahi, kyunki agar hoti toh pichli baar ki lataad ke baad tumhari jhalak bhi na dikhti yaha.' 

'Do you have something called shame in you or not, because if you had then after the last time you were scolded, not even a glimpse of you would have been seen here.' 

I hold her back then hold her hand to indicate to not get angry. 

I am still mindful of her situation. Nobody chooses this profession out of choice and then you can't expect them to be nice too. 

I don't expect her to be nice but I don't want her to be so mean and show herself upper when she know at the end she will be hurt. 

She replies, 

'No, if I had shame I wouldn't be in this profession.' 

Her response just shows how much she has hardened herself because of her profession. 

Nobody should be forced to do this. Swati steps forward and asks her, 

'What are you doing here in Rani-sa's room?' 

She tilts her face to look at me and with snake smile, evil glint in her eyes, she says, 

'Asal mein iss samay Yuvraj snaan karne jaate hai, toh hum unhi ki pratiksha kar rahe hai.' 

'Actually at this time the Prince goes to take a bath, so I am waiting for him.' 

She thinks her words will affect me but the joke is on her if she thinks I believe her. Now, I have much clarity than before. 

I am not going to make the same mistake of not trusting Yuvraj like last time, Swati asks her acidly, 

'Why?' 

She smiles like she has a secret while I try my best to ignore her and she says, 

'Yuvraj gets all hot and bothered after a workout and he likes it when he sees me waiting for him after a bath so I can dirty him up again.' 

I want to laugh so badly that her plans to bother me is so poorly planned but I control myself because if I give her an inch she will pounce on me. 

And I have learned early on to ignore these persons and not give them attention but the second she crosses her limit means she angers me I will forget my lesson. 

I am mute not a pushover. But Swati takes great pleasure in telling her, 

'Hume aapko bataate hue khed ho raha hai ki Yuvraj ne snaan kar liya hai aur wo bhi humari Rani-sa ke saath. Chaliye hum aapke baal sukha de.' 

'I am regretfully informing you that the Prince has taken a bath and that too with our queen. Let us dry your hair.' 

Swati says the last bit to me so I move to my mirror completing ignoring her like she is not here. 

I sit down and Swati parts my hair then combs through them slowly when Chandani speaks up, 

'Unke saath ek snaan ke baad aap itna itra rahi hai, sochiye humne toh snaan ke alwa aur bhi bahut kuch kiya hai, Yuvraj ke saath.' 

'After a bath with him, you are so proud, imagine I have done a lot more than just bath with Yuvraj.' 

I look up in the mirror to find her smirking evilly at me, she knows that I am not interested in listening to that. 

I sign for Swati to translate, 

'Aapne unke saath kya kya kiya hai hume uss mein koi dilchaspi nahi hai, kyunki aap unka atit hai par hum, hum unka aaj aur aanewala kal hai, yaad rakhiyega.' 

'I am not interested in what you have done with him, because you are his past but, I am his present and future, remember that.' 

Swati adds on her own, 

'Dwar uss or hai, aap jaa sakti hai.' 

'The door is on that side, you can go.'

I could see how much my present and future comment has affected her because she knows that it is true. 

But because of the past relationships she had with Yuvraj she is hoping, still maintaining her smile she says, 

'You only know to say that you are not interested in this or that and nothing else.' 

When I just engage myself in my work, picking up the paper and feather pen to write list of things I want, not giving her further attention, she says further goading, 

'Waise bhi, aap aur kya keh sakti hai? Jiska pati dusri auraton se apni talab bujhata hoon wo iske alwa aur kuch keh bhi nahi sakti.' 

'Anyway, what else can you say? The woman whose husband quenches his thirst with other women cannot say anything other than this.' 

I snap the feather pen in two. 

She took it too further, she used Yuvraj's name very wrongly and anger flows through me. 

Fuck her and fuck her situation. 

Till she was using me against me it was alright and that too under limits but now she brought Yuvraj in very wrong sense. 

Swati gets angry and says angrily, 

'Mind your words and don't cross your limits. You are talking to the Queen of Suryagarh now.' 

She looks happy she finally goaded a response out of me but I will make her regret her decision, she says while feigning disinterest, 

'What's the difference in between now and then, huh? She has a title and crown now, which changes nothing. She still can't do anything to me.' 

Her eyes are lit up finally having our attention but soon she will regret and I sign as Swati translates delightedly, 

'This is where you are wrong because it changes everything.' 

She looks in confusion and asks me, 

'Oh yeah, how?' 

I stand up and turn to her then sign which Swati translate proudly, 

'Like the fact that if I want I can throw you out of this kingdom without blinking an eye.' 

She laughs mockingly at me and asks me mockly, 

'Then what I am doing here?' 

I sign as Swati translates with bite in her tone, 

'Tum yaha pe iss liye hoon kyunki humne tumpe taras khaya hai, humari bheekh pe yaha ho. Aur jo log bheekh pe rehte hai na unhe sirf ehsaan manna chahiye na ki dusron ke ghar mein haath daalne ki koshish karni chahiye.' 

'You are here only because I have pitied you, you are here on my handout. And those who live on alms should only show favors to them and not try to usurp other people's houses.' 

I show her place here, she loses smiles at that then she says angrily, 

'Yuvraj hume kabhi yaha se jaane nahi denge, toh aap ye khyal apne dimaag---' 

'Yuvraj will never let me go from here, so get this thought in your mind---' 

I sign as Swati translates, interrupting her in between, 

'Woh Yuvraj hai aur hum yaha ki Rani hai, itni akal aap ke andar hogi ki kon shaktishaali hai, Yuvraj ya Rani-sa.' 

'He is the prince and I am the queen here, you must have enough wisdom to know who is more powerful out of both, the prince or the queen.' 

I could see the frustration and anger in her eyes, the happiness she had before has all vanished, she says in anger, 

'Aap ye sab karke kabhi Yuvraj ko nahi pa sakti.' 

'You can never get the prince by doing all this.' 

Time to show how important she is in our relationship and give her the reality check she needs very badly. 

I step forward with a mocking smile, looking dead straight in her eyes I sign which Swati translates with adding her own attitude, 

'But I already got him. The day he stopped coming to you was the day I got him. And we both know he stopped coming to you after the first night.' 

The second I said I could see that I won this stupid match of ours, and it also confirmed that Yuvraj has been faithful to me this entire marriage. 

I could see the desparation in her eyes as she say, 

'A-Aap.. h-hum............. Aap kuch bhi kahe par sachai yehi hai ki Yuvraj humare hai.' 

'Y-You... I-I............ No matter what you say, the truth is that Yuvraj is mine.' 

My laugh escapes out and she turns angry at not having the reaction from me that she wanted. 

I turn to Swati and sign, 

'Swati send some pet animals and birds for her to select to keep with herself.' 

Swati doesn't understand but she nods her head and replies, 

'Yes, Rani-sa I will send some animals and birds for her to select to pet some.' 

Listening to Swati she becomes confused and with furrowed brows she asks me, 

'Why? Why do I need to pet, animals and birds?' 

I turn to her with wide smile and sign which Swati translates controlling her laugh, 

'Bade bujurg keh gaye hai ki, panchi paalo, jaanwar paalo par bhram mat paalo. Isiliye aap ko chunav de rahe taki aap ye sab paale na ki ek bhram.' 

'Elders have said that rear birds and animals but do not have any illusions. That's why I am giving you a choice so that you can nurture all this and not an illusion.' 

I could see the frustration in her eyes, she desparately wanted me to fall for her trap. 

Which clearly shows me that all her words were empty. 

Yuvraj doesn't want her so she turns me to torture me with their past so I distance myself and she tries to have him. 

But I am no fool who cannot understand what is going on. 

I can be pretty forgiving but I am not a carpet over whom anyone can walk over. 

She huffs, glares at me then leaves the room while Swati starts giggling. 

Seeing her giggling, I also start giggling. 

One week has passed which have been blissful for me. 

Right now I am in the sitting area in the front of my room surrounded by pool after having breakfast. 

I am accompanied by Avantika, Naina and Swati. We are eating churma. 

I have fallen with it after Avantika has introduced me with them. 

I like how much close we have grown, I now have 3 close friends and I will do anything for them. 

We are enjoying the treat when suddenly Avantika says looking in the sky, 

'Do you know that there are so many shapes that stars form in the night sky but they aren't visible in the morning sky?' 

We all look at her and Naina gasps dramatically then she says mockingly, 

'Oh my, I never knew that my friend has brain that she can use it for some thing called science.' 

Avantika looks at her, gives her a tight smile and says, 

'Ha ha ha, very fucking funny.' 

Naina gasps even more and says like she is sharing a secret to us, 

'I have to tell Maa-sa that you said, so she can rinse your dirty mouth with sand.' 

Avantika laughs like how she is having the audacity to say that and herself in the similar manner then says, 

'You mean by dirty mouth, the mouth that your male protagonist uses in your dirty books.' 

Smile wipes at that and then an even wider smile sneaks out and she says, 

'Even dirtier.' 

And we all laugh that. 

I love their dynamic, the way they are always with each other. 

Which sometimes brings the memories of my and Devika. 

How we used to do stupid things? How we laugh on silly things until our stomach ache? 

And how all these memories of ours are now tainted by the fact that all the while spending these moments with me she was secretly hating me and crushing over Rao. 

Swati speaks up snagging my attention, 

'The stars are bright but the sun is even more brighter so it blankets their shine in the day but in the night, sun sets and in the dark these stars shine with their shine being brighter.' 

Everyone looks at her because she is always quiet but right now is the first time she is engaging on herself without me urging her. 

She doesn't notices our gaze on her and she continues on, 

'How ironic is that, the shine is blanketed in the days but the wrong work and dark things are blanketed in the night and the stars become so less brighter that they can't shine on them to expose them.' 

I could always see that there is some story but I never prodded her. 

I respect her boundaries and always will, no matter what.

Everyone has some story to tell and its their choice to share it with people who gives them the comfort they hardly get.

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