Their long-lost Princess

Chapter -4

Abhiraj's pov,

California, U.S.A,

I saw my daughter after 17 years. No one can imagine what I am feeling right now. She was my sunshine, my hope; not only mine but everyone's favourite. She was our little princess, she filled our lives with happiness. When she was born; my happiness knew no bounds. She was the first girl child born in my family after my sister.

After her kidnapping, I started to drift away from everyone. It was wrong I know but I just wanted my daughter back. I started searching for her everywhere in India, I planted my men everywhere, searched for her everywhere, I even tried searching for her kidnappers, but it was as if they never existed. Even after every failure I never lost my hope. I kept searching for her. And today, I got my reward; I got my daughter, my baby.

When I saw her photo I just wanted to pull her out of that picture and hug her and kiss her and pamper her with love and care. And now when I see her sleeping peacefully on this hospital bed, I still wait for her to regain her consciousness. She looks so peaceful yet tired. Her skin is pale, she has black circles under her eyes, there is no glow on her face like it was when she was a baby. It feel like she is just living her life not enjoying it. It will be like this only when she has a lot responsibilities and worries even when she is just a child. She doesn't deserve this, this responsibilities, this life, my baby is tired, she needs rest and she will get it. She will get what she wants from now on, her every wish will be fulfilled. I feel like everything happened because of me, it's all my fault, had I stationed more guards in the palace or had done a thorough palace check up this would have never happened, those kidnappers could never get into the palace.

But nevermind I have spent these 17 years in guilt, but my wife made me understood that none of it was my fault. When I started slowly drifting away from everyone, she was the one who made me realise what I was doing, no doubt my only daughter was kidnapped but I had my son's, even they were kids they needed me as much as they needed their mother. I corrected my mistake and took my responsibilities as a father, a kind and a businessman, and hand in hand kept searching for my daughter.

After coming back from the doctor's cabin I saw my baby had regained her consciousness. The way her expressions kept changing was so adorable but I saw the questions behind her eyes and decided to clear everything that happened, but before it the doctor had to check her, so I instructed a guard to call the doctor, within 5 minutes the doctor came and checked her and also gave us green signal that every thing is perfect and no need to worry.

And now was the time to address the elephant in the room;that were her questions, so I started by introducing myself, "Hi sweetheart myself Abhiraj Chauhan, your dad and this man over here is your oldest brother Arjun, I know you have a lot of questions regarding us like why are we here now and many more but princess hear me out first then please decide if we were wrong or not." And I told her everything; from her kidnapping to how we got know about her everything, I could see hesitation in her eyes, she was trying to read our expressions for any kind of lies but she got none. Me as a king and Arjun as a crowned prince are needed to keep our face neutral even if we wish to murder someone because of media, our expressions may tell them a different story than what we plan to tell so we try to keep our faces expression less, and I guess we don't want Siya to find out how much vulnerable this situation is for us so even if she tried she can't find expressions on our faces. I know this is hard to digest but we will try to assure her as much as possible. I am not good in terms of emotions I wish if I had brought Urmila with us she might have handled the situation more easily than me. She is the one who brought emotions in my life and thought me how to love someone. I am really missing my Urmi a lot, god why didn't I brought her here.

Siya is still silent, she has not uttered a single word, she is still in her thoughts. She looked at me and then at Arjun and opened her mouth to speak something but closed it instantly, I guess she is hesitating, she is in a dilemma whether to speak or not. She finally opened her mouth to say something but I don't know why but I have this feeling that whatever she is going to speak will change our lives.

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Hello lovely readers, I know this chapter may not be nice or upto the mark, but I wrote this in middle of my exam preparations. So please adjust for some days.
Bye, have a great day 😊.
Author, Shrey.....