Queen of a Beast

Chapter 10

Amrita Pov:-

"Maharaj!!" (Your majesty!!)

"Devi." (Lady)

"Aap yahan? Aap gaon ke chetr me kya kar rhe h?" (You here? What are you doing in the village?)

"Kyun? Hum nhi aa sakte?" (Why? Am I not allowed here?)

"Ji nhi, ye poora gaon aapke rajya ke andar h, main kon hi ho-" (no, this whole village is under your rule, who am I-)

"Devi, aap koi sadharan aaurat nhi h. Swuyam ko itna Kam na samjhe." (Lady, you are no ordinary lady. Don't underestimate yourself.)

"Main kuc-kuch samjhi nhi." (I didn't quite understand.)

"Devi, aap aisi pehli devi h jo meri aankhon ko bhayin h." (Lady, you are the first lady in this entire Kingdom who has caught my eyes.)

"Kya? Maharaj, ye aap kaisi baatein kar rhe h? Main bas ek sadharan balika hoon iss sunhare gaon ki (looking around), main aapki barabari kaise kar sakti hoon (looking at him) ?" (What? Your majesty, what are talking about? I am just an ordinary woman in this humble village. I am no one to equal myself with you.)

"To aapke kehna ka tatparya yha h ki aap humse vivah nhi karengi?" (Then you mean to say that you won't marry me?)

"Vivah? Aur aapke saath?" (Marriage? With you?)

"Ji." (Yes.)

"Maharaj, main- main......." (Your majesty, I- I....)

What in the world is he speaking? How can I marry such the king when I am just a maid's daughter? I have no standard in front of him.

Not even that, I have no idea, no etiquette, I know nothing about the royal palace and I already decided that I won't be going back to that place. Then why?

God why are you playing with me? I don't want to anger him by rejecting him and who knows he might punish me and my family for disrespecting him and his proposal. Its humiliation enough that he is proposing to someone like me but to think if I reject him, he will surely kill us.

Let's just let the talk slide for now. I have to tell maa about this. Now, she will hurry even more in my marriage. I just know it. And what if, the family is here and they see me with some other man and blame me for having an affair?

I can't absolutely let that happen at any cost.

"Devi?" (Lady?)

"Maharaj, mujhe chama kar de parantu, main aapse vivah nhi kar sakti." (Your majesty, please forgive me but I can't marry you.)

"Hume issi baat ka bhaye tha." (I was afraid of this only.)

"Ji?" (Yes?)

"Hum kahin na kahin janta the ki aap inkar karengi." (I somewhere knew that you will reject me.)

"Maharaj? Aap kya kehna chahte h?" (Your majesty, what do you mean to say?)

"Aap baaki auraton jaisi bilkul nhi, itna to hum ussi samaye samajh gaye the. Aapke jagah koi aur hota to yha prastaav nhi thukrata." (You are not like any other woman I know. It was something I knew of, from starting. If it was someone else, she would have easily agreed.)

"Ye baat sach nhi h. Mere jagah koi aur bhi hota to inkar hi karta. Main Kahan aapki daasi ki putri aur kahan aap, iss rajya ke raja. Hum dono tanik bhi saath me rakhe ja sakte h." (This is not true. Even if it was someone else, she would have rejected it. I am just your maid's mere daughter whereas you are this kingdom's king. We don't belong together.)