Love and The HAREM

Chapter 21

||Baheeja Daurani Sultana||

In the moonlight that was falling directly from wide windows of balcony at the king size bed of Begum e khaas Baheeja Daurani's chamber,she was lying there enjoying the emperor's perfectly sculpted body roaming over her for the third night straight, he was teasing her with his heavy grown beard poking her on stomach while kissing her soft bronze skin, she was moaning badly while covering her face in shame ,even when he was her husband, she was not used to his all these actions yet but she knew one thing for sure it was just his need not desire as whenever he enters her chamber in all these three days either he is already drunk or drink in her chamber ,whenever he does all these things with her extremely sensitive body he never does all these things in his full conscious self but in drunken state,but one question that she always asks from herself is ,in this harem full of women why he has spent these three nights with her only??In these three days she already heard several gossips from concubines that she is yet the only wife of emperor who got to spend more than one night with emperor.Concubines were jealous of her but at the same time they were happy that she is now a new favorite of emperor other than empress.She was lost in her thoughts when suddenly she saw a shadow behind her chamber's curtain before she could say anything a voice came from behind the curtains.

Long live emperor!!!!,pardon for disturbing you at this hour of night but .........before he could even finish his sentence, emperor roared impatiently, you know the consequences for disturbing me unnecessarily, even though it was just a shadow still Basheera begum lying under emperor on bed could feel the shadow trembling in fear,

But again voice came from behind the curtains Emperor there's something wrong with begum Kunwari Bai Sa ,she had consumed something and now not opening her eyes ,she is lying on bed unconscious ,even royal doctor is surprised what she has eaten!!

Now emperor didn't waste a second in waking up he wore his cloak and again roared where is the Empress,is she busy in taking her beauty sleep?

He said that last sentence with so much hatred that it didn't go unnoticed by Begum Baheeja Daurani ,she woke up too before emperor could go out of her chamber ,she wore her blouse that was thrown on the floor ,skirt was yet to be untied by emperor, she put a heavy silk shawl over it ,ready to follow emperor, guard at the gate wth his shaking voice said Empress is in Begum kunwari bai sa's chamber,Emperor nodded lost somewhere in his own thoughts and walked out of bugum's chamber and was moving toward kunwari bai sa's chamber begum Baheeja was behind her almost running to match with emperor's pace.

When he entered inside the chamber he was in rage as he thought kunwari bai sa again tried to take her life ,,imperial doctor was checking her nerves,Imperial Doctor said "I think honey is the reason behind this condition of her,she was already weak from past few days when I checked her,she lacked blood at that time in her body,as far as maids have said ,she has eaten a lot of honey today,seems like honey has triggered blood flow at her this time of month,and she is unconscious because of that reason, I have given her some herbs she will be fine by tomorrow but she should eat more and more so that her body could be healthy and be ready for carrying babies otherwise it seems difficult for her to be a healthy mother and even conceive .

Emperor listened everything very carefully, till now he didn't even think about spending night with her as he didn't even think her as a full grown woman,she was a mere young girl for him who is not even ready to fulfil his desires, he used to think she is too fragile for all these things,he was attracted to her from the first day when he saw her at garden.After listening to imperial doctor something evil crossed his mind ,he smirked and suddenly said everyone his serious voice to leave the chamber ,empress too listened each and every word of imperial doctor and she really felt a strange feeling in her heart,that was not jealousy,that was something more than that,she squeezed her dupatta and stood up after getting straight order from emperor, begum Baheeja felt hurt for the first time in her life as just few minutes ago he was making love to her and now he is in his first wife's chamber and he didn't even give her a simple look as if she doesn't exist ,he ignored her as if she doesn't exist and also what imperial doctor has said,carrying babies and all,she left the chamber her maids followed her,she passed by Empress without giving her "salam"(A way of showing respect to someone ),Empress was walking toward her chamber too and she continued to look at begum Baheeja's silhouette who has just passed by her as if she was the empress herself, Empress's head maid too noticed Begum's misbehaviour and huffed while following her mistress,Empress entered her chamber and head maid told every other maid to leave the chamber as well as corridor, when Empress and her head maid was alone she threw her dupatta that was covering her body on floor and opened her hair ,she looked into mirror touched her face as if she was observing something, her head maid patted on her soldier, asked her Empress what are you trying to observe Empress ,

"Ahyamma What do you think about my look do i look old now or I have gained some weight or is there any wrinkle has appeared on my face,Empress asked looking at her concerned head maid's face in the mirror.

No beta you are the most beautiful woman in entire Afghanistan you are fragile like cotton ,your porcelain skin is flawless there's nothing in your entire body that can make you feel insecure but why are you asking such questions suddenly ,Head maid said with shining in her eyes

Then Why Emperor chose other women over me,her voice got heavy and tears filled in her eyes,She again asked

You belong to that dynasty whose women are known to be the most beautiful women in entire Afghanistan, your dynasty has given birth to several women who ruled harem of sultans ,Produced heirs ,people still talks about great empress and your great grandaunt ,Khadija Banu Sultana who was known for her beauty and brain,but just tell me the name of single woman whose husband didn't marry another women ,every emperor married several women,had thousands and lakhs of women in harem, but only few got recognition, either the one who ruled this harem because of their beauty, excellence, talent, brain or the one who produced heir because of their fate,here you are the empress who is the only one in entire harem and nobody could even dream to be like you ,now your only focus should be producing a heir,and you have been the luckiest till now so I have full faith on your fate....Before empress could say anything

Suddenly A maid came running, Empress "emperor is coming toward your chamber",Empress looked at head maid she smiled back and did salam and left the chamber, while empress wore her dupatta back and tried to look appropriate! !