Rose of a Thorn (Not Now)

A sequel story but can be read as a standalone.
Setting- Year 1885 (when Britishers ruled upon India)

Radhika Bansal -

Namaste, my name is Radhika. I am 17 years old and I live in a village with my mother and father. I love rain, colour full flowers and my parents. I love playing outside than sitting in my house for which I even get scolded by my mother but my father never worried about it, he allowed me to go outside but only till our village but he doesn't know about a secret that I went out of the village once but what I saw afterwards made me never go out of the village ever again and you know there is a huge luxury looking villa in our village but my father always warned me about that villa and told me to never go there. I never knew who was living there until one day when a British Colonial was appointed in our village, he made a huge image of him living there and that villa was named a den for a lion who is living there. I never went anywhere near there but still one day.............

🌹 "I don't know you, how can I go with you?"

🌵 "I know you enough to take you with me in our home and make you my wife."

🌹 "But I don't love you, I love someone else."

🌵 "I love us and that's final. And you can love anyone you want but you will be mine."

I don't know how, when or why the newly appointed Colonel claims to love me and wants to make me his wife but I haven't even seen him so how did he see me? and marrying him? I love someone else so why will I marry him? God help me get out of this nightmare.

Easton Thomas -

I saw her 15 years ago when I visited India and fell in love with her at that time. I knew that our love is forbidden but I will go to any lengths to keep her with me. She refuses to recognise me but the moment I saw her, I knew she was mine and I don't share. She claims to love someone else now but only I know that she will love me and only me and whoever will come between us will to have to die. She'll be my rose and I, her thorn.