Yashika The uncanny puzzle of KING[ 18+]

12 - Blood-curdling Screams

DIGVIJAY'S POV

"How long will you keep blaming yourself for this?", Ratan Singh asked putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Perhaps my whole life.",
" एक अवधि के बाद सुनी जाने वाली प्रार्थना जैसी हैं वो।।

दुख इस बात का है, हमने समझने मैं ३ चंद्रमा लग गये।।"

"She was  like prayers heard after a period of time.
What aches the most is , it took  three moons for me to realize."

I replied looking through the curtains. I regret that day till today. But every full moon brings unexplained pain. If only I   had controlled myself, my anger if I had not punished her that night. None of this would have happened.

"I wish I could rewind the time and make things right.", my voice held the pain of
Of world. Being a king I could not show emotions but I couldn't hide them in front of Ratan Singh.

"We should leave now", Ratan Singh proposed to which I shook my head slightly, eyes still looking straight.

"You leave, I will be there in some time.", was my reply. Ratan Singh took the permission bowing his head.

I know I can't change the past but I will hereby give every ounce of me to provide you the best, YASHASVI.", three months have passed, and still that day brings all the seas of pain making me drown in guilt.

Even today I don't have the guts to face reality, but deep down I know this is what I need to do. Her words made a deep cut in me. "You will have to live the guilt of taking the life of an innocent." My heart clenched each time those words echo in my ear.

Taking a deep breath and gathering up the courage I walked in, putting the curtain side.

"It's the third full moon, will things ever change?", my heart shattered when I asked her this question. Even though I knew the answer I still had hope saying so.

"Somethings never go back, you just have to accept the reality and live with it.", Yashasvi answered. She didn't even look at me. I knew she had tears in her eyes that she wouldn't show. But, it was not only about her tears, she did not want to show the scar she had been carrying. One that makes her feel ugly, the one that reminds me of her dark past, and one that was my mistake.

To me, she was not ugly neither now, but the reality was not the same. To her it did, I have seen her screaming when she first glanced in the mirror. She cried, screamed, and broke completely that day and since then she has not stepped foot out of this palace or even this chamber.

All I could do was stand there and let her heart cry and see her breaking inch by inch. The darkness of the room was no different from what she held in her heart.

"I wish I could give you back your....", she cuts me off. "Please don't say it. I don't want anything. I don't deserve anything and one day you will get rid of me too.", her words felt like someone was stabbing my heart.

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YASHIKA'S POV

For one last time, I turned to look at him with tear-filled eyes that screamed emptiness and nothing else and said my last words, "I AM NOT SORRY for what I'm doing but you will have to live with the guilt of taking the life of an innocent. I was treated worse than this, still had hope of a better future. but YOU Rajasa, killed my soul.", and jumped off the roof falling straight into the protective yard full of man-hunting lions.

I felt the hard thud, as I hit the ground. It was indeed very painful. My whole body had an excruciating pain running through it. It wasn't even possible to explain through words how my muscles were numb suddenly.

But the reason to jump from the top was not to die from the height. With this height I knew I might survive, the real reason was these man-hunting lions. No one will dare to come in this yard, once between a lion's jaw, there is no way you can survive.

As my body was able to handle the pain, I pushed myself upholding my head that was throbbing with extreme pain.

My heartbeat rose when the sound of breaking of twigs and rustling of leaves entered my ears. The low growls And snarls making it clear that my death was walking on four feet towards me.

My head turned with a jolt and the next moment a lion attacked me, pining me down on the ground. A bloodcurdling scream left my mouth when I felt it's claws scratching and tearing my face. I couldn't even move under its weight. And another one on my stomach tearing the flesh.

My blood was oozing as I could feel the warm liquid flowing out. My death was leaning over me, its canines were drolling to eat me alive. I was completely blank in that moment.

I could see all my life flashing in front of my eyes in those last seconds

the most painful part ? there was not a single memory where I had happiness or a moment of my life when I smiled with my heart. Except for one reality one truth that my heart accepted in that second that I had indeed fallen for the king, which was the worst pain at that moment. But it didn't matter now, because everything is ending. With each passing second.

Just when I thought it was the end the weight was off my body. A pair of big blank widened eyes of that lion and then nothing. It was lying dead next to me.

After that I couldn't figure out anything clearly as my vision was getting blurry, head spinning. Everything was fading away. The last thing I remembered was a silhouette of a man and then everything went silent.

A thirteen-year-old girl had hopes for her. She had always dreamt of living a day full of love happiness and acceptance.

"And after what happened today I'm gonna make myself even stronger, not because I'm gonna fight princess back, which will result in my death sentence, but I want to survive till the day I see my hopes become reality and I will never cry in front of anyone in my life." these were her exact words even after getting fifty lashes without any mistake from a princess who was the reason for her misery today. But today? Everything Finished for her.

But did it? Or was god having another plan for her?
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