Mohini POV 

I look at Avantika and Naina with embarrased expression while they are trying to supress their smiles. 

I was so lost in Raja-sa that I didn't notice their presence until I almost gave them a show. 

I just feel embarrased thinking what they would have seen if I had been successful in opening his kurta and attacked him. 

They will be surely traumatised for their whole life. 

And everyday I would wish for the earth to open up and take me in. 

They both don't speak up just look at me and increase my misery. 

Fortunately Swati comes and says to me, 

'Rani-sa, I got all the herbs that you asked me to bring to you, is that enough?' 

I look at it and sign, satisfied by the quantity, 

'It is more than enough, ask someone to store them in small jars, each one should be in different jars.' 

She frowns at that and says, 

'But you wanted these to study on them, why are you telling them to store now?' 

I just sign with an uncomfortable smile, 

'Raja-sa wants to discuss some urgent matter with me, so right now I am not free to work on them.' 

She nods thoughtfully then calls the attendees and instructs them on how to keep it. 

The attendees collect all the herbs and take my books with them to keep it. 

Swati notices the awkward atmosphere between us and says with a frown, 

'What did I miss? Why are you all standing so stiff and awkward?' 

Avantika amusedly replies, 

'I am not at all awkward and stiff, its mainly Mohini and maybe Naina.' 

Swati asks, 

'Why?' 

Trying to supress her smile she says, 

'If you have been fast enough or we have been late enough then probably you would have been traumatised by the show in the sitting area.' 

She becomes confused and thinks to herself for some moment then it dawns on her, she also tries to supress her smile. 

She says, 

'Pretty sure, I came really close to that.' 

Avantika eyes light up for a new gossip and says eagerly, 

'Oh please do tell me.' 

I glare at them, they are gathered here to embarass me. 

I clap to get their attention then sign as Swati translates, 

'Tell me why are you here instead of gossiping or I am going?' 

Naina replies with her own smile, 

'You are the one who called for us to come here.' 

I remember it now, I had to talk to them about harem but right now I can't talk about it, when Raja-sa is waiting for me. 

I sign with an uneasy smile which Swati translates, 

'Can we postpone it? Raja-sa is waiting for me. When I get free of him, then I would send the message to you again, are you both okay with that?' 

They frown at my strange behaviour and Naina says, 

'Its okay Mohini, we can come back again when you are free, no need to be uneasy about that, you go, Agam must be waiting for you.' 

I give them a relived smile. They also smile back at me and go from there. 

I start going to the room when I notice Swati following me so I sign, 

'Where are you going?' 

She replies slowly not understanding the question, 

'Inside the room with you.' 

I smile and sign, 

'He understands me now, Swati.' 

She remembers that making an Oh face and says with an apologetic smile, 

'I am sorry, Ranisa. Its just habit.' 

I assure her, 

'No need to be sorry, you go and finish rest of your task.' 

She nods and goes from there while I enter my room to find Raja-sa in a new kurta. 

An attendee is standing beside him while he is sitting on the couch going over a scroll, putting it on the table. 

He takes out his stamp and puts it on the scroll. 

It looks like some type of grant. 

He scroll it up and stand up, handing the scroll to the attendee and saying, 

'Give this to him and ask him to get the copy of this grant and hand it to me.' 

He nods and goes from there and Raja-sa turns to me with a smile. 

I go closer to him and put my hands on his chest and pinch the clothes, looking at him with coy smile and raised brows. 

He puts his arms around my waist and says with a smirk, 

'Ek sherni ne humpe hamla karke, humare izzat pe haath dalne ki koshish ki, badi mushkil se apna samman bachaya uss se.' 

'A lioness attacked me and tried to take away my honor, but with great difficulty I saved my honor from her.' 

I fist my hands in his kurta and pulls him closer then kiss his chin lightly, feeling bold. 

His eyes flare in surprise but then he recovers, he puts his fingers under my chin tilting my face up to him. 

He lightly kisses me flaring the seed of anticipation, he kisses the corners of my lips to tease me. 

Desire and anticipation makes my eyes heavy to have his lips on me but he completely removes his face leaving me dumbfounded. 

I look at him questioningly but he is raking his fingers through his hairs, looking frustrated and mutters out, 

'Fuck!!!!' 

I sign worriedly, 

'What happened? Did something offend you?' 

It gains his attention and his face goes soft. He comes and cups my face in his hands and says, 

'Its just, I am getting distracted and I don't have much time, I have to go somewhere.' 

The minute he says that, I move back and look at him, waiting for him to explain, he tells me everything. 

About the Himadari's situation and that he has to go there to handle the situation. 

I think about it and sign, 

'You have to first try and talk to Ambari's King, convince him to back out or it could be bad for our internal relationship with them.' 

He nods and I further sign slowly for him to understand, 

'You can't explicitly show your favouritism towards Viraj and Ekansh dewarsa, this won't sit well with other kingdoms in the treaty.' 

He nods and says, 

'I know but I can't pull Viraj out of this, he has given his verbal promise to Himadari's king.' 

I think about it for one moment then sign, 

'Then why don't you tell Ambari's king about the verbal promise but instead of saying it one time promise, make it lifetime promise of this generation only.' 

He considers my idea and says, 

'I think its a good idea, we will discuss about it.' 

I smile feeling useful in this situation. He comes up to me and hugs me. 

He says, 

'Your mind always fascinate me.' 

Then he moves back and says, 

'I have to go now and prepare for the leave.' 

I lean back and sign, 

'Do you want me to make any preparations?' 

He shakes his head and says, 

'No, everything is being prepared as we speak.' 

We move back from each other when an attendee comes and says, 

'Your caravan is waiting for you to leave Yuvraj.' 

He nods his head and the attendee leaves. 

He says while holding my hand, 

'My time to leave has come, take care of yourself and don't leave the palace until I return, to reach there it will take us 4 days, so don't put yourself in danger.' 

I frown at his strange comment of leaving the palace but he is going for so long and far away, so to ease his mind, I nod my head. 

We both move to the entrance of the palace where everyone is waiting for him. 

Viraj and Ekansh dewarsa bows to greet me with joined hands and I also do the same. 

I sign to him, 

'Please take care of yourself.' 

He nods smilingly then climbs his horse, he looks at me for the last time then indicate them to start their journey. 

I am still looking there until they vanish from the sight. 

I turn to find Swati there waiting for me. When I come closer she says, 

'I think its time for the gift that you prepared for the ladies of harem.' 

I smile evilly and nod. 

I tried to talk with the ladies there individually but they didn't open up about how Chandani is so powerful in there. 

I could see they are afraid of Chandani but why? 

Its good that I didn't tell Raja-sa about this or he would have been worried about the situation. 

Once he comes back then I will tell all this to him. 

When I couldn't find answers from them in harem then I turned to Naina and Avantika, yesterday. 

Swati also tells them what she heard and they were shocked by the audacity. Avantika says with visible anger, 

'We never bothered ourselves with the harem because it was added later on by Agam and he already made the preparations to look over them, but it looks like we made a mistake of not bothering with it.' 

Naina also says in anger, 

'You are right, they have got too much freedom plus we never knew the reason why Agam had harem built in our palace.' 

That statement deflated me because they don't even know the reason behind the inclusion of harem in palace, then how could they clear my confusion? 

I sign which Swati translates, 

'So you don't know the reason why Chandani is so powerful there?' 

They sadly shake their head, we all become thoughtful when suddenly Naina says, 

'Why don't you go along with the plan of yours? It will make her anxious having to see the power going from her and she will surely slip up somewhere to give us the clue about what she is so powerful of.' 

I think about it for a seond then nod my head agreeing with them. 

Coming back to present when Swati snaps her fingers in front of me and says, 

'We should go to the harem now.' 

I sign, 

'Did you got that woman to accompany us?' 

She replies with a smile, 

'She will meet us there.' 

Chandani we are coming for you. 

We move towards the harem, when we reach there to find that woman is sitting there and have 2-3 women catering to her. 

The moment she sees me, she stands up and bows to me with respect and greet me, I greet her back. 

We three together enter the harem, I sign looking at Swati, 

'Gather everyone in the main hall of harem.' 

She leaves while I with that woman enter the hall and I sit on the main chair there. 

After sometime Swati comes back and slowly everyone gathers. 

At last Chandani comes in the hall and becomes shocked, angry finding me on her seat. 

I sign smilingly as Swati translates acting all sweet, 

'I hope you are okay finding me here, in your place.' 

She gives a sarcastic laugh and says, 

'I didn't know that such a powerful Queen is dreaming to take my place, taking my seat. Are you thinking of becoming a whore?' 

I could see her feeling smug, I look at Swati who is controlling her anger, 

I sign pleasantly, 

'When did I ever say that I want to take your place? And I didn't say anything about the seat plus this all belongs to me after all, why should I see to your comfort? Silly, me!' 

Swati translates keeping her sweet act. 

I could see the anger rising in Chandani's eyes, she says trying not show her emotion, 

'But you forgot that this place was given to me by Raja-sa himself, so it belong to me first then--' 

I interrupt with signing as Swati translates, 

'You mean we instead of me, because I have the grant letter where he gave off this harem to all the ladies staying here.' 

I stand up and walk closer to her then sign with a smile Swati translating it with her own smile, 

'This place is mine, do you know why?' 

When she shakes her head in confusion then I sign which Swati takes great pleasure adding her own attitude in it, 

'Kyunki tum sab yaha par mere pati ke bheek pe reh rahi ho. Ye bheek hai, aur bheek pe sirf bheek dene wale ka adhikaar hota hai, par woh kabhi jaldi ehasaan nahi ginwaate.' 

'Because you all are living here on my husband's charity. This is a alms, and only the person giving the alms has authority over those alms, but he never counts.' 

Her face goes red with anger and I sign my last blow as Swati translates taking great pleasure in it, 

'Bheek ka malik bhikhari sirf kuch samay ban ke reh sakta hai, jis din bhikhari ne bheek dene wale ko aankh dikhayi, uss din woh bhikhari ko khade khade bik jaate hai.' 

'The beggar can be owner of ams only for a short time, the day the beggar looks at the giver in a wrong, is the day he can sell the beggar.' 

She goes to say something but I raise my hand and sign which Swati translates in patronizing manner, 

'My marriage and our personal promises to each other says that whatever he owns is mine and whatever I own is his, right now he owns this harem and every lady here, which means I own this all too.' 

She gets flushed and tries to say something but Swati closes her mouth with her hands gently and saying, 

'Admit it, you lost here and you have no point to make, we know you are just going to call her names, bringing back your past with Raja-sa, which will achieve nothing since the Queen has already done the deed.' 

I could see her face falling the moment she catches the drift of what Swati is trying to say. 

Even though she is slightly wrong, I won't correct her. 

I am not the person who show their weakness to their enemies. 

I move back towards the main chair there and again sit on it, pointedly looking at her then sign as Swati translates with acid smile, 

'This chair also belongs to me on which I am sitting, so back to the business.' 

I turn to the lady who is looking like she would worship me right now which unnerves me slightly. 

I motion for her to come forward and she comes. 

Focusing on the women there whose shock hasn't wore off and address them with signs as Swati translates, 

'Now, some things in this harem will change, this harem is half for the women who are here for pleasure while half for women who wants to earn their living through normal jobs.' 

They all look at me, patiently waiting. I call for Surreya by Swati. 

She comes forward and bows to greet me. 

I hand her the scroll and Swati says to read it. 

She looks at me then open the scroll, start to read it, paling with each word. 

I sign gaining her attention as my bangles giggle and Swati translates, 

'I said read it loud.' 

She scaredly reads the gist, 

'I am being let go from my position of the... the... head of this harem and being in charge of the ladies here and I won't be allowed to work in any departments of this palace.' 

Everyones gasps at hearing that and Chandani comes forward with outrage and says, 

'You can't do this, Raja-sa appointed her, this---' 

I raise my hand to stop her and then look at her with dead serious expression then sign which Swati translates in monotone voice, 

'Did I say you could talk?' 

She steps back lowering her head, cowering by the dead look on my face. 

Then I sign with seriousness with Swati translating, 

'From today onwards Amba will be your incharge and head of this harem, meet her. Secondly if anybody and I mean anybody disrespected her or she noted something suspicious about you, you will be let go from this empire right this second. 

Because I will believe her over you. So think first before acting because that letter to Surreya should have opened your eyes that, now my joking mood has gone.' 

I never trust on people but this can scare them off from plotting against me. 

They lower their head in unison and I continue with Swati, 

'The women of harem who are working normal jobs, will not be responsible for the food and cleaning of this harem anymore.' 

Half of the women become happy of this and it is visible on their face but others are not. 

'Your food is being made in the kitchen but it is responsibility of pleasure ladies to look after the cooking and cleaning of the part they stay, they could take some time off from their busy schedule.' 

Chandani has her head lowered but I could see her watching me with so much hostileness. 

'Of course attendees are there to help you all but only little and you could use some of those skills in use and I am dividing the harem in two parts, 

One for working women and another for pleasure ladies, so no one has to interfere in one another's lives much, but that partition will be done according to the ratio of women here. So everyone will make sure to stick to their sides only.' 

Some faces have visible smile and some have visible hatred. 

'So these are the rules to stay in this harem for all of you and you all have to follow these 3 rules whether you want it or not, because this time I won't tolerate any type of disrespect towards myself.' 

I make sure to look everyone in their eyes to make my point clear then further sign as Swati translates, warning in her tone, 

'If you show me your loyalty then you will be benefitted, if not you will be let go. Either show me your loyalty or get deprived of the benefits, either way I don't care, but I do care how you act in my rule, Is that clear?' 

They all nod their heads, some full heartedly, some half heartedly. 

I stand up and goes to leave then my eyes fall onto, my mojri in my feet then look up at Swati and sign, 

'Can you see whats wrong with my mojri?' 

She frowns then nods and takes the mojri from my feet in her hand, checks it. 

I sign to her, 

'I think something is stuck inside, pat it hard against this seat, maybe it will come out.' 

She confusedly asks, 

'You want me to pat the mojri against the seat so something which is stuck inside will come out?' 

I nod my head, she does it many times then I stop her and indicate her to give me back. 

I wear it again showing satisfaction but everyone looks so confused. 

I turn to Amba and sign as Swati translates, 

'This chair has my mojri on them making it dirty so for my next meeting get new chair for me here, this has become insignificant now. 

Now whoever wants to sit on this chair can sit, I have no problem.' 

Everyone understands my implication. 

I turn to leave but then I remember something. 

I look at Chandani but adress everyone as I sign with Swati translating, 

'Nobody here should even think about getting close to Raja-sa because my patience has gone very thin, I will burn your eyes if you even look at him in the wrong way.' 

Giving my last warning I walk out the harem. 

It is Chandani's fault that after my multiple warnings she didn't back off. 

If she wants to see my nasty face then I will make sure to show her some nightmare material. 

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