The Bygone Royals

Prologue

LIFE

This little word is the bitchiest and yet a brutal thing to any living being. It makes you do things you have never wished to; it makes you enjoy it, churn and yearn for it and at the same time would leave you when you least expect it at the same time bringing you to a point you had never ever dreamt of.

Yet everyone has a different meaning to this four-letter word. Some love it, some loathe it while a few are exhausted with it.

For me I have been through all these definitions for my life, I have loved it to pieces, I have Loathed with wanting it to end at the earliest, as well as now I am exhausted with it. Not wanting to withstand the chaos that it presents to me day and night.

The Flash lights blinded us as we stood there facing the media, their questions became a painful ringing sound buzzing in my ear as I tried to join the dots of today's happening. What was I supposed to do? What was I supposed to answer the world now? The maze of questions made me shiver, each of them as if asking me the reason for why was I even alive today?

A sudden blanket of warmth surrounded me as someone wrapped their hands around me. My head moved towards my left tilting upwards as the sharp features of Veer came into my vision.

He looked straight and hard; his eyes had a focus and aim. Tightening his hold on me he held his hand up silencing the crowd as pin drop silence surrounded us.

"We shall take your questions, but not now, right now I and the princess need to be there with our family, hence please respect our privacy and give us some time. We shall address you and update you all in due time." Veer spoke and without giving them a chance to speak he ushered me inside the hospital.

My hands shook as we made our way towards the ICU, the crowd around us staring at us as we made our way inside. We weren't supposed to be here, we weren't supposed to be together and most of all, Daksh wasn't supposed to be in this situation.

"Shakti, I need you to be strong. Things are as it is very difficult in Mysore for Rey, we don't want to burden him with more of it. Especially to the Queen." Veer said. His voice sounded soft and commanding at the same time. I envied the way he could keep his stanza all cool and calm to the world. I know That his turmoil within was at a level far away from what was going on in mine, yet he was so composed.

"Wasn't Daksh your best friend?" I asked,

"He is Shakti," Veer stopped right in the middle of the corridor, I could still see a vast distance between the door towards the ICU Ward and where we stood. "But that just doesn't mean I would act all irrational and start blaming people and creating a ruckus." I tried to retort back with my side of the bargain but he took a deep breath and brushed his fingers through his hair, the action making me gulp that little amount of saliva that was left in my parched mouth.

"Shakti, at this moment, the world just needs to know that we all are business partners and you and I are in a relationship filled with immense love and care. They need to buy our story so that when the right moment comes, we can sell Daksh's story."

"What story?"

"The story that Daksh Chauhan is Schizophrenic." Veer looked right into my eyes as he said it, taking away the little energy that was left within me.

Didn't I say Life was one of the bitchiest and one of the most brutal thing to any living being. Though I knew it, all I had hoped was that it would not be the most brutal thing for my loved ones... especially any further to Daksh.

But this was life and as it always did it surprised us and brought us to the very end of it. 

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