Page 11 of The Royal Beast & His Queen

He gently lifted her head holding her chin, and looking at her eyes filled, he sighed. She pushed his hand off her chin.

"Your palms are oily", she said and he nodded, pulling her close to him by her feet making a gasp escape her.

"Don't do this again, take care of yourself for me, seeing you in pain is not something I could deal with", he said kissing her gently...

"Hm...", she said pulling him more into her by his hair. He broke the kiss, carried her to their washroom and slowly descended the stairs to reach the ground floor of the bathroom where all kinds of steam and water spas are arranged, there is a pond there and seats are arranged to bath as well. She rarely came to this area as she didn't have much time. She blushed remembering how her husband made love to here there the last time they were there.

He put her down and slowly dipped her feet in the tub, she could feel the hot water calming her muscles...

He sat at her feet making sure they were properly dipped inside the water.

"Rana sa... Come here", she said forwarding her palm, he took it and settled beside her on the large stool behind her, so that she was in between his legs.

Abhyansh nuzzled his head in the crook of her neck peppering kisses there.

She held his palm which was on her waist and started rubbing it with her soft palms.

"I am sorry, next time I will try not to exhaust myself so much", she said and he nodded in agreement.

"This is the last time I am going easy on you Rani sa", he said and she nodded leaning her head on his chest. He ruffled her hair softly and she closed her eyes in bliss.

"Help me wash my hair tomorrow, it's been 4 days since I washed them, I wanted to but I am lazy", she said and he hummed.

After some more time, he carried her back to their room and she slept for some time while he was doing some work. He received a call from Khan, so he walked out to pick it up so as not to disturb her.

"Maharaj... The government sanctioned permissions to the forensic department", khan said, Abhyansh's veins popped out with the amount of fury he was having right now.

Khan set the building on fire where Ilir was kept as ordered by Abhyansh and now under pressure from other gangs, the government allowed the forensic department to take the samples there and investigate if they could find any trace of humans burnt in the fire.

"And ??", Abhyansh asked coldly, expecting what measures Khan took to control the damage or stop the investigation.

"I requested the government against it, I'll go again, I have an appointment with the president tomo...", khan started but was interrupted by Abhyandh's calm tone which screamed danger...

"Khan let me clear if you have any misconception, I softened just to my wife not to the whole world", Abhyansh said calmly and Zahid understood why he was saying that...

"Mahar...", Zahid Khan started but was interrupted again...

"You blo*dy requested them ?? Should have put a gun on the as*hole's head damn it", Abhyansh raised his tone which startled the old man as Abhyansh normally wouldn't raise his tone.

"Maharaj... This government is anti-India, and since you are Indian, they want to act against you, they knew you are one of the major pillars of the country, I was dealing with them softly because of the very same reason Maharaj", khan said

"Not reasons khan, I need results...", Abhyansh said... "No worries, it's time to remind who is in control Khan... Endwhoevercomes our way, I'll take care of everything", he said shocking Khan.

The words he said weighed a lot, things can get so messy with this, Zahid doubted Abhyansh's decision. This is a lot of risk, Abhyansh always took daring but calculative steps but this time he felt it was an impulsive move but before he could voice out his opinion in a constructive way without offending the king, he hung up.

Khan sighed and called Abhyansh again but he cut his call which meant he didn't want to talk about it, so he had no option but to implement the king's order.

Isha woke up after a while, freshened up, and walked down to prepare dinner. After the dinner, Abhyansh went to his study as he had a lot of work, he was preparing to checkmate the government and the people who betrayed him. To state in layman's terms, he was preparing for war.

Isha observed her mother-in-law upset over something, she didn't even eat properly, so she decided to talk to her later.

After clearing things, Isha and Avyan sat there waiting for Amruta to join them like every day but Amruta walked there to inform them that she was retiring to her room as she wanted to go to bed early.

"Ma... I need to talk to you, wait", Isha said

"We'll talk tomorrow Isha, I'm tired", Amruta said trying to avoid any kind of discussion now.

"Ma... You look upset, what's wrong", Avyan asked but Amruta shook her head, Avyan got up and hugged his mother which made Amruta break down into tears. "Ma... don't cry, what happened, sh... it's okay... everything will be fine...", Avyan consoled his mother and she calmed down, seeing her crying so much, Avyan understood what must be the reason, her mothermostly cries because of two reasons, her dead daughter or her son who hates her. And his brother didn't do or say anything so it must be because of remembering his dead sister. He didn't want to prolong the matter as he didn't want his sister-in-law to know anything. He isn't aware that she already knew about Advaita.

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