Mohini- Rise Of Queen

83. Love Confession

Mohini POV

If looks could kill then Devika would already be dead.

She is smirking at me while touching and caressesing my mother's Tode.

My hands are fisted so tight that I could punch someone, breaking their bones.

I feel Swati hands on my closed fist trying to ease up my control on the fist.

She murmurs lowly,

'It won't look good on you if you murder her as she goads you. Because at the end even after you kill her, she will have the satisfaction that she made you murder her.'

She says the whole thing in one breath and so seriousness that I trip for a second not understanding.

I look at her with a raised eyebrow as she heaves a breath.

She gives me a sheepish smile.

I shake my head and sign,

'You don't have to worry about that. No one can force me to do anything without my own free will. I know she is goading me.'

She heaves a sigh of relief at that and gives a tentative smile.

We both turn back to find Maina Kaki sliding those Tode on her hands.

Right now I am not feeling anger but rather sad that I can't have my Aai's favourite Tode, which she loved so much.

Because my father had given it to her when he proposed for her marriage.

But she never had an idea that the man she loved was a leech from inside who only thought about himself and nothing.

He trapped my Aai in this illusion of love and blissful marriage.

I was still trapped in my sadness when my father enters with his officials in the aangan where the rituals are taking place.

Everybody from my Baba's family side has been giving me side glances and have not approached me.

Swati and the guards of my empire are responsible for this.

I feel just all warm from inside knowing that Raja-sa had done this all.

So no one can approach me or come close enough to me to trigger my panic.

He thinks about everything and takes care of every detail, that's what makes him the best husband.

I couldn't ask for anything better.

And just like that my sadness lifted, all I have to do is think about Raja-sa and his thoughtful gesture.

My father enters further and I see that Devika's father is accompanying him with a broad smile.

It looks like a smile of a leper.

Suddenly I hear Gargi's voice from beside me,

'It looks like she certainly followed through her promise of becoming the Queen but she choose her own best friend's empire.'

Her condescending tone grates on my nerve.

I look to my side to see her smirking at me as if she just wound me.

But frankly now I am not hurt by any of Devika's behaviour because it doesn't concern me, she doesn't concern me.

I turn to her with Swati and sign with boring expression on my face,

'I could care less about this empire, first I have my own prosperous bigger empire to look after where everyone respects me and loves me.

Secondly, since Dada has been banished from this empire, it severes my last connection with this empire, so your point is moot. I am here just as the daughter of my Baba and nothing else.'