DESTINY (on hold)

12: The Lost Princess

Third-person POV

It is been 7 hours that the doctors have been operating upon Manyata, she has been shot on her lower back, some of her nerves have been damaged severely one wrong move and she can lose her mobility, outside the ICU sat Uday Kritika and Kanika, Pragya and Prachi were taken to palace with Unnati to rest.

Kritika was still silently crying, blaming herself for all this mess she, again and again, looked at the operating room and then at the small temple inside the hospital, she was helpless, Kanika, on the other hand, was too numb to understand anything she was sitting beside Kritika fisting her Anarkali kurta too tired to console Kanika she was herself trying to not break out.

Uday was another story he was in regret, anger, despair and pain all at once if someone saw him now they must think either he has gone mad or is dead, he was just sitting still onto the waiting bench continuously looking at the red bulb onto the door of the ICU, he was waiting for it to switch down, the doctor to come out and tell his Manyata was well and good.

"Raja sa please drink some tea," said Manav (he was in the Chapter Jhansi ki Rani, he is Uday's friend along with Rishi)

"I am fine Manav," he said the fourth time.

Manav sighed and sat back to his seat, between Rishi and Uday, both of them, him and Rishi were outside Jaigarh for some internal work related to Royals but as soon as both of them got the news they rushed towards the city hospital, to their relief Prince was well and fine but the girl they met in Jaipur was severely injured.

Manav looked up from the tea that was just rejected by his dear friend and his gaze fell upon a stone-faced Kanika, she was already looking at him, being handsome and Prince's left hand, he already had many women giving him attention but the shy girl he met in an accident was not looking at him in the usual way, actually, she wasn't looking at him at all she was just staring and it seemed he was in her way of staring he then saw her tensed fist.

"Here drink this," said Manav who was crouched on his right leg to come at Kanika's level.

Kanika who was staring at the wall was now disturbed by the voice she managed to look at the guy talking to her, she found Manav, "Prince's bodyguard" her mind proclaimed.

mindlessly she took the teacup from his hand drank all of the glass emptying it in one go, it wasn't until the magical liquid touched her throat she realised how hungry and thirsty she was.

she passed a smile towards Manav and thanked him.

That straightforward smile was enough and Manav was blown away, his heart fluttered a little bit, but his trance was soon cut off as he heard something falling beside himself.

That something was Kritika who got up to visit the temple but all her crying and the hunger in her belly finally got to her.

As soon as Kanika fell unconscious, everyone present got up hurriedly to her, but Rishi won the first place and carried her in a bridal position, Kanika also got up with Manav she went towards Kritika and tried to wake her up.

"Kritika, OH MY GOD, please wake up dude" she lightly slapped Kritika's cheeks to wake her up while crying, she was exhausted and sad over Manayata and now Kanika also fell unconscious.

"Miss I will take her to the doctor don't worry" saying that Rishi ran towards the doctor's room with an unconscious Kritika in his arms.

Kanika watching all of this slumped onto the seat with her head in her hands and silently cried over her fate, she is not as strong as Kritika, nor she is as wise and mature like Mnayata, how is she supposed to react to this situation, what is she supposed to do.