Page 104 of The Royal Beast & His Queen

Abhyanshwas about to end Amar Rajput's chapter but then he heard about his accident, and Kailash Rajput came into the picture or so everyone thought that he came to the picture after Amar Rajput's death. Neil Singhania escaped and Beast let him be as he was not involved in the incidents at all. Well, for Chirag only he knew what he did to him...

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Everyone sat silent after Bhairav and Abhyansh were done narrating the past. Isha sat stunned hearing everything that happened. She couldn't even respond, her husband's sufferings made her numb, 29 attempts to kill him ? 'N' number of betrayals, that included his own mother's ? And his sister's cruel death ? His best friend's brutal killing.... No no... No... She suddenly started hyperventilating...

"Ishu.... Ishu... Damn... Dr. Parthasarathy...", Ranveer shouted about to rush out to call Dr. Parthasarathy... Abhyansh held Isha's palm and gave her water which she gulped...

"Sh... Relax... Breathe in, breathe out... Breathe in... Breathe out... Yes... Just like that... Very good", Abhyansh calmed her rubbing her forearms...

Slowly tears made their way from her eyes... she kept looking at the now faded scar on her wrist, and the very lightly visible cut bruises on her palms. He understood her next question but he couldn't answer it... Could he ?

"What was the actual reason behind these Rana sa ?", Isha asked... She knew her husband and Bhairav were hiding something from her and she wanted to know it. "And...", she started, she also wanted to know about her husband's wh**ring ways before marriage or so she thought but after all these, she couldn't get within herself to ask about it but she knew she needed to ask. She had a lot of questions and a lot of fillings to do but for now, all that filled in her mind are two things...

Was her father really the culprit ? Was he really capable of doing something so brutal ? Her heart said 'No' without a pause but her head was contemplating, if her husband was saying he saw 'Amar Rajput' in that green kurta, then he might have seen him ? What was the actual truth ?

And her aunt ? She said her parents attempted many times to tell Abhyansh the truth but neither Abhyansh nor Bhairav mentioned anything of that sort ? What is it ? Her head started spinning with all these, she had some more water, no she couldn't fall sick or faint, she chanted and that helped a bit.

CHAPTER – 13

Abhyansh understood his wife's unasked questions, but how would he answer her ? There is a reason behind the scars he gave her, the two worst times of his life when he was most inhumane to her... Well he was inhumane to her all those days but these two times, he lost his control, he wouldn't have hurt her like that if the external forces hadn't involved, no matter what, he knew it wasn't justified and Everytime he remembered it, he had the mad urge to hurt himself physically, give himself pain 100 times worse than he gave her. And now that she stayed in the Rajput palace, he didn't have to restrict himself from that mad urge... But he knew his wife would show him hell the day she found out what he did to himself just a week ago.

When he met Neil Singhania at the den... His purpose was to teach that old a** a lesson, give him at least a percentage of his deserved punishment for his sins, but that old a**'s words shifted concentration to hurt himself more. The mad urge to punish himself hit him, this time with extreme force.

"Singhania ?",Abhyanshentered with a smirk calling for the man he hated the most, previously that title belonged to Amar Rajput, but now this man, Neil Singhania shared the title of most hated man byAbhyanshwith his best friend Amar.

Abhyanshcouldn't suppress his urge to give him immeasurable pain looking at him... He remembered what all Neil Singhania's provocation made him do to his wife...

Abhyansh'stone and the cold aura scared the sh*t out of everyone, he seemed to be in a mood to show them hell, more than his men were showing them all these days. And now they feared even thinking about it, there's not even an inch on their body that wasn't bruised, but still, miraculously, all their organs were working,Abhyanshplanned it that way, their torture should be slow, unending, and should cause excruciating pain, they should feel that agonizing pain in every breath they take...

Neil Singhania understood that their begging wouldn't save them from the BEAST that day, so he thought of a different approach, he knew the beast would end them one or the other day, so there was no point in saving his strategies to save his life, so he thought to use them to escape from the pain at least for this day but he understood how wrong he was after a few hours...

"BEAST... You like it a lot when people call you that huh ? But looks like you were called the same by your wife as well ? Why wouldn't she ? you behave such with her... huh ?", Neil taunted with a known smirk...

Abhyanshkept looking at Neil for a second before ordering his men to burn his whole left hand, making sure not to hurt any of his other body parts shocking Neil... He expectedAbhyanshto leave them alone... Reminding him of his flaws or how he fell into Neil's words always worked in favor of him,Abhyansh'smood to torture them flew away and he returned to his palace always, Neil expected the same to happen now, but this time he was already dealing with his unstable heart, the pain and regret he had for what he did to his wife in the past intensified looking at their enemies in front of him all the time and his wife's distance wasn't helping his situation.

He wouldn't have given a chance to their relationship for what he did to her if he was at her place. And this fact badly caused him distress...

After looking at the complete procedure, Abhyansh returned to his palace unfazed. His cold eyes didn't calm down despite punishing Neil, in fact, they intensified... He remembered how he burnt his wife's wrist with the hot metal watch... Her every whimper which didn't move him then, acted as a dagger now. His anguish didn't calm down and he knew what heshoulddo... He punished the man who instigated him to do that to her, but the man who did it to her, that is him still roams freely... and he was determined to change that... Every time, the fear of what would happen if his wife gets to know about it stopped him from hurting himself, so he contained that mad urge but he couldn't control it anymore, his feet moved to the back palace and took his long impending punishment.

"Ishu... bacha... I think you should rest for some time... These talks will keep going...", Ranveer said, he looked at the dilemma in his sister's eyes, he knew his sister was also feeling the same as him about Amar's involvement and Ranveer didn't want them to say it out loud...

He couldn't believe his 'bhabosa' could be that cruel, he knew he wasn't that kind of man and he strongly trusted him, there might be some misunderstanding and Ranveer knew Isha too felt the same. The man who respects women so much, despite being the king, never craved for a male child to continue his legacy though all his royal friends forced him to try for a son, but he remained stubborn, he proudly said his daughter was enough for him and she would take his lineage and values forward, and coming to a son, he already had Ranveer, that's what he used to say. Amar loved Isha and Ranveer equally, well his daughter a little more definitely but he thought of deciding a heir trulybased on their personalities, Amar knew Isha's nature and he knew people would misuse her kindness, so he thought Ranveer as his potential heir. But, that's where Amar Rajput went wrong, his daughter might be a kind princess but has the potential to become a reliant and strong ruler, the aura of her as Abhyansh Singh Ranawat's wife and a strong queen serves as an evidence to her strength.

Ranveer knew Isha too thought the same, she didn't believe her father could be so cruel but she was resisting so much not to to say it out loud as it could hurt her husband, she always wanted to soothe his pain not intensify it, but that didn't mean she wouldn't defend her father, she would but before she could say something that hurt Abhyansh, she decided to search for facts and truth in every way possible.

"Bhai... I am fine... I want to talk to Rana sa alone... Could you and Bhairav leave us alone ?", she asked... Ranveer looked into his sister's eyes and saw her determination to find the truth but which one ? He wondered.

"I will... But have some water first...", Ranveer said holding the glass filled with water in front of her lips, she took a few sips and nodded at her brother...

Ranveer got up and walked to Abhyansh...

"I am sorry for whatever you have gone through Ranawat", Ranveer said, he knew Abhyansh hated sympathy but it wasn't his sympathy, his heart ached at his brother-in-law's pain and Abhyansh understood this, so he didn't respond, otherwise he would have broken Ranveer's jaw.

Bhairav walked away after receiving Abhyansh's approval, followed by Ranveer. He shut the huge doors of the study and walked towards his wife... As he neared, he noticed she is shivering but trying to not show it.

"Isha ? Bacha... You are not fine...", he sat beside taking her into his arms...

'My baba wasn't cruel, he couldn't have done that to Advaita... I won't believe this', Isha wanted to say, loudly defend her father but her husband's pain stopped her from saying it out loud. She hated herself for being a weak daughter, her father would be hating her now for not able to defend him, she didn't understand why she gets weak when it came to her husband and his pain...

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