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THE next morning saw Vidya packing up the few belongings she had come with to the palace in haste, crying hysterically.
She had tried doing what she thought was just the best for her to do, get Rina raped, record the sex scene and cunningly, send the video to Raghav, just to tear them apart, to break his heart. But unfortunately, it didn’t work out.
She was so pained from the previous day, the worst and most shameful thing has just happened to her. Prince Raghav had chosen her worst enemy, Rina over her. God! She was just so ashamed.
He had even admitted it, that she was his woman, his thing, his stuff. Oh Jesus! Her crying increased. Rina? God!
The way they were holding hands, laughing and smiling at each other right from the garage yesterday, had sent her dying and resurrecting many times.
She doesn’t need anyone to tell her anything anymore, she has decided to leave, decided to leave the palace. I mean, she can’t stay here knowing perfectly well that Rina is in his room with him.
Still crying, she zipped up her box, picked up her bag and walked towards the door, rolling the box as she went.
As soon as she got to the door, she stopped crying and cleaned off her face, drying her tears.
She got out and locked the door, then proceeded to the garage, not even ready to ring a maid to help her out this time. A chauffeur was already on standby, waiting for her beside the Toyota Camry.
He bowed and took the box from her then proceeded to put it in the booth. Vidya used this time to take a good look at the palace, little tears dropped from her eyes and she cleaned it off immediately.
The chauffeur closed the booth and then opened the door to the backseat, and Vidya lowered herself in. He closed it and went over to the driver’s side, and within minutes, they were driving out of the palace.
As soon as she got home, she hurriedly went into the house, leaving behind her box and the chauffeur. Mrs Roshan who was just entering the living room was shocked to see her.
Shocked for the fact that she was whimpering heavily, for the fact that she wasn’t supposed to be here, like she was supposed to be in the palace with the prince, and shocked for the fact that her arrival was just too early. Infact, Mrs Roshan was still in her pyjamas, she was just waking up.
Without as much as a greeting or even a glance at her mother, Vidya flopped down on the couch and poured out cries, her whimpering increased.
Alarmed, Mrs Roshan rushed up to her, her eyes full of fears and worries.
“What is the problem sweetheart? Why are you crying? Why are you here by this time? What is it, tell me?”, she reeled out a lot of questions.
Vidya couldn’t reply, as she was just drowned in her tears, leaving her mother all the more befuddled.
She left her and peeped outside through the window, and she saw the chauffeur taking out the box from the car booth, then she raised her voice to call in the maid.
“Ava… Ava”, she shouted.
Ava rushed into the living room immediately, wiping off her hands on the apron tied to her waist.
“Ma’am”, she replied.
“Go get the box from the chauffeur outside”, she instructed and turned back to Vidya.
That was when Ava saw her and her eyes widened in surprise.
“Good morning miss, welcome”, she said and dashed outside.
“So, are you ready to talk now? Talk to your mother sweetheart, I’m all ears”, she said and sat beside her, wrapping her right arm around her shoulder.
Vidya sniffed, and cleaned off her face with the back of her palm.
“Mo… mom”, she stuttered, still cleaning off tears from her face.
“Yes dear, talk to me. Why are you back? What happened?”, she asked.
“Mom I am finished”, she said and bursted into cry again.
“What? Don’t say that Vidya”, Mrs Roshan said, pacifying her.
“What do you mean you are finished? Did the prince do something bad to you? Did the maids offended you? What happened? Just talk”, she nudged her.
Vidya exhaled deeply, and turned to her mother.
“Prince Raghav chased me out of the palace”, she blurted.
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“What do you mean chased you out of the palace? Come Vidya, what have you done to him? You have played rude right?”, she asked.
“I didn’t, I did none of that”, she insisted.
Mrs Roshan sighed and pulled on her pyjamas, covering herself properly.
“Fine, so why did he chase you out?”, she asked.
“He did that indirectly. He had brought in a lady into the palace yesterday, they had spent the night together”, she cried out the more.
“What!”, she exclaimed and got up, this time raising her voice so loud.
“What did you just say the prince did?”, she asked.
“He brought in another lady, and that lady… she is my worst enemy”, she said.
“Holy moly! No no no, her grace must hear this, the queen, the queen”, she said in repitition, unruffling her hair with her two hands, and the next thing, she rushed into the room.
Vidya just sat there whimpering and watching her. Seconds later, she dashed out, with her phone this time, her eyes fixed on the screen as she scrolled through her contacts.
She dialed Queen Arya who picked up almost immediately.
“Greetings your majesty, there is a huge fire on the mountain, a sacrilege!”, she shouted.
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The rays of the early morning sun tried to get in through the curtains of the window, and laced on Rina’s eyes. She stirred and tried to open her eyes, but the rays stopped her, and she turned her face to the other side, then forced her eyes open.
The first thing her eyes met was the bedsheet and duvet, she found out that it was totally different from the one she had seen the previous day. Next, she felt she wasn’t naked, she remembered sleeping naked the previous night but now, she wasn’t just clothed, she was putting on a designer pyjamas, wow! Who had done all these?
She abruptly turned to the other side of the bed, he wasn’t there and she sighed and sat up, yawning.
Just then, the door to the bathroom door opened and he came out, carrying with him a bowl half filled with hot steaming water, and a white face napkin on his left shoulder. She watched him walk up to the bed.
“Good morning Maharana”, she greeted, scratching her head.
He smiled.
“Morning sunshine, how was your night?”, he asked as he got to the bed and sat beside her, dropping the bowl on the floor.
Rina studied him properly, he was putting on the same pyjamas as her, just that his was blue, and hers was pink, but it was just same designs, gosh!
“Not bad”, she replied and rolled her eyes.
He smiled.
“Um, did you change the bedsheet? And who wore this nightie on me?”, she asked.
He snorted.
“Fine princess, you ask too many questions. I wore the nightie on you and as for the bedsheet, the previous one was stained with a lot of blood, I had it discarded and changed”, he said.
She nodded knowingly and looked away, avoiding his gaze. She has just remembered something, they had made love last night right? Yes. Raghav had made love to her, hence the blood stains he is talking about, oh! She has almost forgotten.
Raghav saw her looked away and he smiled.
“You didn’t tell me you were…”.
“A virgin”, she interrupted.
“Ugh… yeah. You had bled so much”, he said.
She sighed, not wanting to take the discussion further. She had bled much yeah, it wasn’t her fault, she had just given her virginity to him, what’s the big deal there huh.
“It means a lot to me princess”, he snapped into her thoughts.
She furrowed her brows, looking directly into his eyes.
“The water, what do you want to use it for?”, she digressed.
“Oh…”, he took away the napkin from his shoulders, “… I figured out you would need it”, he shrugged his shoulders.
She looked at him inquiringly.
“Need it for what?”, she asked.
“For your legs. Isn’t it painful anymore?”, he asked, glancing down at her legs.
Subconsciously, she moved her legs, and then it dawned on her, the pains. She had felt much pains down there the previous night, but the pains weren’t on her legs.
She looked up at him again and a little laugh escaped her lips as she cupped her left hand over her mouth.
Wait… what the hell is he trying to butress?
“So, do you want to press my legs with hot water or my v area? Where exactly do you want to press with water?”, she asked.
He snorted.
“Where you feel pains huh. Alright, where exactly do you feel the pains?”, he asked.
“Come on gee”.
He ignored her and carefully dipped the napkin into the steaming water, she watched him in horror, her eyes beaming with surprise.
She watched him soaked the napkin into the water and then took it out, advancing towards her. She shrieked out immediately.
“What! Do you want to press my v area with hot water?”, she shouted, adjusting backwards.
He looked astonished.
“Huh? Am I?”, he asked, his hand holding the napkin hung in the air.
She shrieked out, still moving backwards.
“Of course, where do you think I feel the pains? Infact I don’t feel pains anymore, go”, she said.
Huh? He was stunned.
“I’m only trying to help baby”, he said.
“Help who? Put back the napkin into the bowl please”, she said.
He glanced at the bowl and back at her, then he shrugged.
“Alright, I give up”, he put back the napkin into the water.
“Gosh! I can’t believe this”, she said covering her face with her hands.
He was still surprised at her outburst, come on, he was only trying to help. He knew she must be feeling pains, but why is she shutting him out?
“Babe, what’s the problem?”, he asked.
She uncovered her face and slowly looked at him.
“Raghav, you want to kill me. Like you want to press here… here…”, she said pointing at her v area, “… with steaming hot water, that’s absolutely killing. You are a man, don’t try to do what you know nothing about”, she said.
He smiled.
“But you are feeling pains, or aren’t you?”.
She shook her head vigorously.
“I’m not feeling any pains anymore, as a matter of fact, I’m okay”, she said.
His eyes beamed.
“Really? No more pains?”.
“No more. Please can you take the bowl away”, she pleaded.
He laughed.
“Fine”, he picked up the bowl and got up, then walked into the bathroom.
“Ahhhh!”, Rina exclaimed as she watched him leave. How could someone press her… with hot water huh? All in the name of he wanna help. Jeez! It’s unheard of.
She tried raising up her legs to stand and jeez! She felt the pains hitting heavily at her. She ignored it and forced herself to get up, she did but then, she fell back to the bed.
“Ouch!”, she exclaimed.
Raghav came out of the bathroom just in time to see her falling back to the bed and he rushed up to her.
“Babe? Are you okay?”, he asked.
“I’m fine, I’m fine”, she said.
He shook his head.
“No, you are not. Come here”, he said and scooped her in his hands.
“Oh my God! Where you taking me to?”, she asked, laughing.
“To where you had wanted to go to”, he said and carried her to the bathroom.
“Goodness!”, she exclaimed, still laughing.
He dropped her in the empty bathtub and went to the toothbrush rack, singled out a new pack of toothbrush and opened it. Then he applied toothpaste on it and turned to her, handling the toothbrush to her.
She watched him do all these and smiled, then took the toothbrush from him and began brushing.
He turned away from her to get a cup of water, and he returned few seconds with it.
When she was done brushing, he took away the brush and cup, then filled the bathtub with warm fresh scenting soapy water.
“After bath, come over for breakfast”, he said.
She smiled so broadly.
“Thanks so much Raghav, I appreciate”, she said.
He nodded and walked out of the bathroom, closing the door behind.
Few minutes later, she was done bathing and she came out of the bathroom, to see her phone on the bed, flashing its light continuously.
With the towel still wrapped around her, she walked up to the bed and picked up her phone, it was Zaina calling.
My gee, she must have been calling for long now, but why didn’t she hear it ring out?
She answered the call and put it on her ears.
“Hey baby girl”, she was the first to speak into the phone.
“Yooo! Baby Rin, been calling”, she said, shouting.
Rina laughed.
“Yeah, I don’t know, I think Raghav had put it on silent”, she shrugged her shoulders.
“Oops, he now takes care of your phone huh?”, she asked.
“Ugh… sure, why not?”, she rolled her eyes.
“Oh Rin, you are indeed lucky. So, did you see Vidya, how is she? Has she gone back home?”, she asked.
Rina sighed deeply and sat on the bed.
“I don’t know anything about her baby, and I don’t care to. My gee, I can’t believe she tried to have me raped”.
“Yeah, she is a trash, so trash her anyway. So, how was it?”.
“Hey, how was what?”, she asked, looking suspicious.
“Come on, your night. I mean you guys night, or do you mean to tell me you had spend the night in a guest room? Come on”, she squeaked.
Rina laughed.
“Well yes, I had spend the night in a guest room”.
“You lie Rina, liar. Don’t lie to me alright, so start talking, spill it”, she nudged her.
She continued laughing.
“Alright fine, lie detector. We had our first night”.
“What! Oh my geeeeeee”, Zaina squealed, shouting into the phone.
Rina rolled her eyes, she just wasn’t ready for this talk, so she instantly hung up and tossed the phone on the bed.
Just then, Raghav entered the room carrying with him a tray, he walked up to the dining and dropped it on the table, then began walking towards the bed.
She got up immediately to walk to the dressing table and on getting to her, he wrapped his arms around her, kissing her on the neck, lips, ears, everywhere.
She didn’t reciprocate.
“Ohh please stop, I don’t want this”, she complained.
“I promised to make it more fun and pleasurable remember?”, he asked in a whisper.
“Stop”, she said and just then, he noticed her phone flashing light and he stopped kissing, but still holding her.
“Who is calling?”, he asked.
She glanced at the phone and sighed. Zaina.
“Ohh, it’s Zaina”, she said and forced herself out from his grip.
“Well, do and come over for breakfast”, he said and walked to the dining.