Mohini POV 

Its been complete 10 days and I haven't gotten any news when he will arrive. 

I had already settled my plan of action for great new opportunities for our people. 

I just have to discuss it with Raja-sa. I hope that he doesn't have to get involved in that war. 

It can reflect badly on Suryagarh. I have full faith in Raja-sa's decision. 

But I have told the chief soldier to be prepared to be called in the battlefield until Raja-sa arrives. 

So our army is ready if the message arrives for them to help in the battlefield and I myself assured that. 

I am in the kitchen making Bua-sa's favourite dessert when Swati comes inside rushing to me. 

I pick up the hot pot by the cloth from the flame to the side and extinguish the flame. 

Swati says smilingly, 

'Raja-sa's caravan is arriving, Rani-sa. He must be arriving the palace any minute now.' 

I instantly become happy hearing the news which means he succeded in his mission and it won't disturb our treaty. 

I take a deep breath of relief at that and tell the attendee standing there to look after the sweet. 

I move to the entrance palace with Swati following me. 

Just as we arrived there, we find the caravan already arrived. 

Ekansh dewarsa is back but not Viraj dewarsa which means he is staying back to help Himadari and everything has gone according to plan. 

I move forward just as Raja-sa climbes down from his palanquin. 

At which I frown, why did he need palanquin to arrive? 

For the first time I notice the somber expression on Ekansh dewarsa's face when he is always in joyful mood. 

Raja-sa comes to me with a smile and he takes my face in his palm, caressesing it. 

I look in his eyes to find them glazed over like he has taken heavy medication. 

He looks at my face and murmurs, 

'My Mohini, I kept my promise.' 

His eyes shut down and falls on me before I can prepare myself for his fall which also makes me fall down too as everyone rushes to me. 

I try to look at his face and pat it constantly to wake him up. 

My heart start racing at his non response and there is ringing in my ears. My one hand is on his face and other hand is on his back. 

Ekansh dewarsa and some soldiers help him off me. 

Sweat start clamping me as I conjure worst case scenarios. 

My hands shake, my heart is beating wildily with worry as I look at him. 

I try to calm myself down and try to wipe the sweat off my face when I feel something on my face. 

I bring my hand on front of me to see blood on my hands. 

I look at Raja-sa who is being escorted to find his back bloody. My vision starts going hazy when Swati comes to me shakes me and asks me worriedly, 

'Are you okay, Rani-sa? You weren't responding to anything we said.' 

That explains why there was no explanation. I start rushing after with Swati on my heels. 

I enter my room to find him laying on his back. 

I look at Ekansh dewarsa and he answers with his head lowered, 

'Hume kshama kariyega Bhabhisaa, hum Agam ko bachane mein vifal ho gaye, unke peeth pe khanjar maraa gaya hai.' 

'Forgive me Bhabhisa, I had failed to save Agama, he has been stabbed in the back.' 

Now is not the time to get myself in whys? and whos? 

Right now I have to focus on Raja-sa, I turn to Swati and sign, asking her to bring said herbs. 

I feel his body then start removing his jewellery, in which Ekansh dewarsa helps me. 

After removing his jewelleries, I take out his dagger and very carefully open the back of his kurta by tearing it open with that dagger. 

I carefully keep it on the dressing table because he loves that dagger of his. 

Coming back to his side I open the kurta to find the wound in the middle of his back. 

Swati brings the herbs and pestle while the attendees following her brought 2 bowls of water and clean clothes. 

I remove the cloth gauze on his wound then start cleaning him up, trying to quiet the shake of my hands. 

I feel the wound to test if it injured his spine but it is looking superficial, so he is in safe from any serious injuries inside his body. 

Trying to control my emotions falls unsuccessful when a lone tear falls down. 

I had been so scared that something happened to him, very serious injury and remembered those days when he got injured because of me. 

Swati comes forward and hesitatingly asks, 

'Do you want me to clean up his wound?' 

I try to control myself and shake my head. 

I ignore the inner turmoil of my emotions and focus on what I am doing. 

It helps to some extent, I clean his wound with warm water then clean it again with herbal antiseptic water to prevent infection. 

I could clearly see the gory flesh wound, stitched up very meticulously but somehow he strained himself too much. 

Which made the stitches open and the blood to flow. 

First I send Swati to get me some stitches for this then I remove the previous stitches carefully. 

Swati brings it and I start stitching, the blood flows during my stitching but it stops after I stitch it up. 

 I clean the blood then start to mix the herbs and make a healing paste for his wound. 

After making the paste I carefully spread it over his wound, put a cotton cloth to cushion it then wrap gauze cloth around his whole torso. 

With the help of Ekansh dewarsa, I wrap the wound tightly making sure it does not slip. 

I ask Swati to get aloe juice for him to get him his energy, I just look at him, after sometime Swati comes inside with the juice. 

I keep it beside the bed then wait for him to come in consciousness, with me Ekansh dewarsa and Swati waited. 

Swati tells me to wash my face since I put his blood on my face through my hand. 

So I go and wash my face quietly then sit down beside him. 

After sometime he opens his eyes and starts shifting which made him grunt in pain. 

Ekansh rush to him to help him sit up while I sit on the bed and look at him, feeling frozen. 

He slowly sits up not leaning on his back, he grunts in pain in between. 

I walk to his side and hand him the juice without showing any expression. 

He looks at my face worriedly searching for any emotion but I don't show any. 

After handing him the juice, I sit down on the other side of the bed, looking at him. 

He slowly drinks the juice and hands the glass to Swati, she takes it from him and leaves the room. 

He looks at Ekansh dewarsa and says, 

'Itni lambi yatra ki hai, jaaiye jaake aap bhi aaram kar le.' 

'You have traveled such a long distance, you too should go and rest.' 

He mutely nods his head then leaves us, closing the door on his way out. 

Raja-sa sighs wearily then looks at me and says with his head tilted, 

'Come here Mohini, I want to touch you, feel you after being away for so long, after being afraid that I won't get to meet you again.' 

That opens the floodgates of emotions. 

I rush to him and hug him making sure that I don't hurt his wound or strain on them. 

He hugs me back to him then he speaks in my ear, 

'Let's lie down for some moment, I want to have some peace with you.' 

Carefully he slids down and lays on his stomach partially and I lay beside him on my back with his hand over my waist. 

He kisses my forehead and says, 

'Hume kshama kar dijiyega Mohini, humne aapse kiya ye vada tod diya ki hum acchi dasha mein vapis aaenge.' 

'Forgive me Mohini, I broke my promise to you.' 

I am too overwhelmed with the emotions to express anything so I just caresses his face when a lone tear escapes me. 

He becomes distressed then wipes my tears and kissing the track that it rolled down. 

We just lay like this for several moments, breathing deeply in each others arms. 

After sometime I sign to ask him, 

'How did this happen? Did Ambari's King did this to you?' 

At hearing that his eyes darken with unrestrained rage, the atmosphere had dropped dangerously low. 

I wait for him to control his rage then answer me, 

'No, he didn't do it, he wished he could do this, this was done by Himadari's King Divij's brother Avij Rai Singh.' 

How did it escalated to that quickly? I frown and sign, 

'I don't understand, tell me everything from start to finish.' 

He then proceeds to tell me everything, listening to which I experience range of emotions. 

He tells me about the circumstances under which Divij Rai and Reva marries which brings tears in my eyes. 

That she has to endure so much at such a young age and she would have suffered more if Divij Rai hadn't helped her. 

Then he tells me about the meet with Ambari's King whom I have decided to hate. 

He tells me about the details of the meeting where he was 90% sure that he will agree to back out. 

After that meet when he was going, he was stabbed by Himadari's Prince. 

I sign angrily, 

'We should attack him, now no one can stop you from attacking him or helping Himadari as he came on his own to attack. You don't need to convince Ambari to back out.' 

He smiles at seeing my anger for him and says, 

'No need for that, when I was patched up Viraj told me that Ambari's King panicked seeing my that condition because of Avij so he backed out from helping him. 

He doesn't want anyone to accuse him if this is raised in annual meeting between treaty kingdoms.' 

But I am still angry, I want to kill him myself. He sees my anger and tries to palacate me, 

'Attacking him won't gain me anything since he doesn't have anything to lose, he is already losing since Viraj is supporting Himadari's king. 

Plus when one side is already winning then contributing to that side doesn't make any impact, it only waste your resources and I can't exploit my soldiers in vain.' 

He has point, there is no way that he would win against Viraj dewarsa. 

I solemnly nod my head to agree with him. 

He then pulls me toward him and says, 

'Hum bahut thak gaye hai, hum sukoon ki neend lene dijiye.' 

'I am very tired, let me sleep peacefully.' 

He instantly falls asleep holding me, sleep doesn't come instantly but after sometime of raking my fingers through his hair, I fall asleep. 

I am woken up by the knock on my door, I open my eyes and look outside to find that it is almost dark. 

Again knock comes and I slowly pry his hand from my waist and climb down the bed. 

I fix my attire and open the door to find everyone standing there with worried faces. 

Bapusaa, Bua-sa, Avantika, Naina, Ekansh and Swati, again with the veil, are looking at me with misery on their face. 

I step back from the door to let them enter, I go beside Raja-sa and try to wake him up slowly shake him. 

He mumbles incohorently then he slowly opens his eyes, I get to move away but he pulls me hard making me lie down. 

My eyes widen as I see everyone with wide shocked eyes, he sleepily smiles looking at me and leans towards me. 

He is going to embarass us both so I panic and knee him in nuts making him yelp in pain. 

He rolls on his back holding his sensitive area, eyes closed in pain. 

I rush up to stand from him, he opens his eyes to look at me in anger. 

He stands up and goes to say something but he sees everyone standing a few feet away still looking at us in shock. 

His eyes widen in shock too. 

I take my dupatta and put a veil, Raja-sa with lowered head comes to stand beside me. 

Then he takes my dupatta completely and veils his face while I look at him in shock, he just says,

'From now on its tradition that the married man will be in veil in Suryagarh.' 

Ekansh sputters while coughing hard. Naina rubs his back, he just says, 

'What the hell did I just saw and heard?' 

Bapusaa glare at him for using 'hell' and Naina replies him, 

'That's what we are also figuring out.' 

I take my dupatta for him while he glares at me and I glare at him back for his audacity to glare at me so he lowers his eyes. 

Bapusaa's laugh sneaks out and says, 

'It looks like that you are okay since you are moving around nicely and engaging in activities. I will leave you to rest and do whatever you want to do.' 

Bua-sa doesn't look at us as she is embarassed and asks me, 

'Did you eat anything, Mohini?' 

I sign no which Swati tells to her. 

She just nods her head and says, 

'I will send something for you and Agam to eat since some time is there before dinner food is made.' 

Then she leaves everyone in shock, Avantika looks where she has vanished and says, 

'Aaj suraj pashchim se nikla hai kya?' 

'Has the sun risen from the west today?' 

When she looks back at us she finds us all glaring at her for that comment. 

She takes 2-3 steps back and says, 

'What? I didn't say anything wrong, I just pointed out what everyone was thinking.' 

She sits down and Naina says smiling openly at him, 

'I think you should sit down Agam, you are still not healed.' 

He nods his head and carefully sits after wearing the kurta that I give him. 

Avantika becomes serious and asks him, 

'How did this happen? It is against the rules of wars that you can't stab your enemy when he just came for meeting.' 

He tells them everything with Ekansh. 

I become surprised when Ekansh dewarsa tells that he stabbed Avij multiple times while he was injured. 

I look at him to find him looking at me sheepishly. 

He was hurt and he chose to attack someone in return instead of getting medical attention. 

He just says, 

'I can't let him off easily, he has to bear the consequences of touching me.' 

I hate to admit it but he is right, Avij is lucky that Raja-sa didn't support Himadari in the war or he would have gotten very shameful defeat. 

Raja-sa changes the topic and ask them, 

'So what you were 4 up to while I was away?' 

Looking at Swati too with everyone else. I am happy that he sees her more as my friend instead of an attendee. 

It looks like Swati also liked that so she excitedly tells him, 

'Rani-sa came up with great education and job opportunities of people of Suryagarh, we discussed it with everyone.' 

He becomes intrigued and asks me, 

'Oh really? What is that?' 

They one by one tell him everything about art forms and libraries as well as practicals. 

When he listen about art introduced as job and education opportunity, he looks at me and his eyes go soft. 

I know how much this means to him, bringing back the dream of the late Queen. 

We have already decided to present it in front of the royal court then arrange for the exhibition takes place. 

Then give orders for the designing of efficient libraries for our people. 

Ekansh interrupts saying, 

'It will take a great chunk out of the treasury so we have to move gradually first with art forms so we can get revenue and balance it.' 

Raja-sa ponders on it and says, 

'You are right, I will have a talk with the royal treasurer about this. We can't move forward if we don't have funds for our people.' 

He looks at me with smile and says, 

'Present it in the court, get the approval then I will have to talk with the treasurer to strategise the plan of action on how to introduce these and how much at a time.' 

I nod my head, I didn't thought about that it overall, I only thought about libraries and practicals. 

These exhibition also needs the funds which will make it difficult. 

But I have full faith on Raja-sa that this plan will succeed, I just have to make this plan budget friendly. 

Few days later, Raja-sa has healed properly almost, there is still some pain there as the dagger nicked the bone so it is hurting still. 

The wounds are closed but there is still the possibility that if he exert too much his wound will open. 

I am going to meet Amba in the harem to find how everything is going there. 

I enter there to hear someone talking in the room which makes me stop and listen to it. 

'The new girls are not willing and happy.' 

To which Chandani replies, 

'When they ever are, well they have to be everyone has to do their jobs just like we are doing our jobs as harem ladies.' 

The other women scoffs saying, 

'Harem ladies, more like sold luggages.' 

Chandani says in bored tone, 

'Then you shouldn't have become one if you had problem with harem ladies.' 

I can't see her face but can hear the anger in her voice, 

'You do know that I didn't have the choice, I was sold to this world or did you forget that?' 

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