Kept For Heir

5.

Important point ---
- As mentioned before in initial chapters, king Shivay has four wives.

-To those special readers who is going to badmouth Shivay and My work, listen one thing carefully that "the book is a historical fiction" and it's not a big deal for king to have four wife.

-if he wouldn't had wife then there wouldn't be any meaning of this plot as he could had easily got married to her or whatever ...

-So if you don't like it, do not go further

As their ride neared the palace, the large group parted in two sub groups , Minister Abhram take charge of the group in which Princess Anika and Sara are present, and King Shivay with his small army made his way towards front gate of palace, not before Minister Abhram and the 20 troops army disappeared in darkness with Princess Anika and Sara.

The loud drum and other musical instruments melodic tone filled in it's surrounding and the enormous gate of palace was forced open by 50 troops, His four wives stood at front with his mother in mid of them holding a big thaal filled with lamp, a garland, flower 🌹 etcetera . King Shivay jumped down from his horse and touch feet of his mother to take her blessings "The work is done mother" he whispered down enough for only his mother to hear.

#Warning you all to read the note because i will not tolerate negative words.

His wives eyes twinkled as they took appearance of their husband, they all felt gliddy after seeing their husband in weeks "Maharaj" his fourth wife Ahilya called him out softly and all he did is pass her a smile before looking towards his first wife "Queen Aasha, You look pale" he whispered loud enough for only Queens to hear, the other three fumed in jealousy and Queen Aasha looked down, too shy to speak to him at front of others.

"Maharaj, You must be tired from travelling" His second wife spoke softly and fiddled with edge of her saree "Why don't you come inside and get freshen up first" Her eyes were casted on floor and King Shivay look towards his wife Padma before nodding in agreement and signing her to show the way, He look towards his third wife who look at him for second but as soon as their eyes met she looked away, his third wife is shy, less spoken like his first wife .

"Queen Ahilya, Come here" he called out his fourth wife who was looking towards ground dejectedly, seeing him talking and exchanging glances with other Queens when he ignored her call for the first time hurted her, hearing him calling her made her face light up with smile and she quickly made her way towards him, her light brown eyes lightened up and she stare his face with longings "Maharaj" She sighed and leaned on his arms to seek comfort from him .

As a king and husband of not one but four wife, he never let anyone of them feel neglected, he made sure to take care of all of them, shower them with dresses, jwellery or whatever they want from him, he made sure to kept all of them happy and so far he succeeded.

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"It's your chamber" Minister Abhram stoped at front of a big chamber, far away from palace and signed Princess Anika and Sara to go inside, he followed behind them and showed them every corner including bath chamber, dressing chamber , bed chamber, the separated kitchen at the back and the large attached balcony with bed chamber .

"Made sure to never cross this boundary and show yourself to anyone, i repeat anyone , No one should be aware of your presence here" He ordered and look towards Princess Anika for any sort of response but get a blank look in return.

"Anything else?" She asked and he shook his head negatively .

"I will be outside, if any of you will need anything, do inform me" his gaze travelled from Anika to Sara and stucked on the lady for a minute before he tore his gaze away from her and head out from chamber .

Princess Anika made her way to bed and lost herself deep in thought, his doings in border of Aligarh kept rewinding in her head, her palm came in contact with her forehead and she still felt the burning feeling of his shoes there, her eyes darkened and her head hurts, the only thing she wanted at this exact moment is revenge, Revenge for what he did to her but she knew it very well that her one wrong step will lead her to great pain, and as much as she lie to herself or wear facade of strong and fearless Princess Anika, she is still a timid, shy, and scared girl  who always hided herself in her nanny lap whenever she heard the sound of whips and her mother crying, one by one tears start falling down from her eyes as the realisation of situation dawned to her, the realisation of the fact that 'She is facing same fate as her mother' she is as much as helpless as her mother was.

She closed her eyes for a minute but bolted it open when images of her father doing nasty things to her mother at front of other Queens and her siblings flashed in her mind, The strong demeanor of her start falling down, the things which are stored for her in future made her shiver in fear and disgust.

It was way too easy for her to prepare herself for the death in last 10 years when she was locked inside left wings of the palace once she used to live, It was easy for her to kill the beast at the exact moment without any ounce of fear to get kill because she was prepared for it, she was prepared for dieing from the moment when she decided to kill that brother of hers, that wasn't something big and dangerous for her but living in fear of the things which are stored for future made her shiver at the thought of it only.

"W...why ... M...mmee..eee" her voice broke and she pulled her knees close to her chest and screamed to herself. "Why?" Her body went rigid as she heard approaching footsteps from outside of chamber, she quickly got back on her feet, wiped away her tears and blanked her emotion before sitting rigidly on bed like a statue.

"Are they inside?" She heard voice of a woman and by tone of her she knew it's someone of upper standard and position from Minister Abhram .

"Yes, Raj Mata" Minister Abhram replied and after that she felt as they were still talking but their voice wasn't audible enough for her to make out what they both were whispering .

"I will send someone to arrange the things of chamber and dress the girl up" Raj Mata said and head away from the gate, making Anika sigh in irritation , she was appetent to know the conversation between Minister and that Mysterious lady .

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