In a bid to save the man she loves, Amrit ends up making a deal with the uncompromising Kuwar Veer Pratap Singh. Bound by mutual weaknesses and wounds they hide from the world the two goes from unwilling pretenders to unlikely allies. Sometimes, it...
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Summary: There are always those who eat their children...
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If it hurts her when Veer pushes her away from his grief Amrit doesn't let it show. Instead she turns on the man who had caused him the deepest hurt of his life.
"Well Chauhaan sahab," she says drily. "I see why my husband does prefer to ignore your requests of audience. Why ever on earth would you call Rani Sahiba an enemy of the late king?"
The old man watched her with a keen eye, his scrutiny made Amrit huff. After a pause he smiled.
"I see what he has seen in you," he says. "Your highness. You have the spirit of his mother."
"The same woman you just declared an enemy of her own husband!" Amrit points out. "I don't know whether to take this as a compliment or an insult."
"I did not call her his enemy. I called her the enemy. In general. More than anyone else that woman is her own enemy, or else would anyone throw away a good life, good life partner and an innocent child born of her own flesh and blood to chase after a rotten core deceiver?"
Amrit has to agree that the man had a point, but a terrible way of making it. It was a mistake to bring Veer here. She should have met Chauhaan alone, spared Veer the heartache. She shifts in her chair wanting to chase after her husband but keeping her position before this man. She would go to Veer, but she has to go to him with enough information to balm his wounds. Such information only Chauhaan could provide.
"You say the problem began because Rani Sahiba's father was send to war under Rana Sahab's command."
"Call her Nalini, she doesn't deserve the honour of her title."
"I will not take my mother in law's name, thank you very much," Amrit snaps at him. "You said she believed it was part of a scheme to marry her. So it was not?"
Chauhaan shrugs and taps a finger on the bound volume in his hands - the late king's personal journal that he wanted Veer to have, before Veer had abruptly left the room.
"It's all in here. I'm sure. Though I have never opened and read it." Seeing Amrit opening her mouth to argue he continues.
"I know your highness wants a more direct sort of an answer. I can provide one, as I was deeply involved and informed of this particular state affair. Again it will explain to you why I have called her the enemy.
"First thing, if you mean to ask me if late Rana sahab schemed to marry Nalini Devi - I can assure you he did not. In fact most of his youth he was in love with another woman - one he had met at Oxford and as I understand there were promises made between them.
