Page 69 of The Royal Beast & His Caged Princess

"Are you kidding me?? Isha, you can joke later, now please have your breakfast fast, I need to reach office early today, I'll drop you and go", Avyan said

Rajmata Devyani Devi who heard Avyan calling Isha by her name walked to him...

"Avyan... Yeh hum kya sunre hai (What am I hearing??), Did you just call your sister-in-law by her name??", She asked in her authoritative tone... Except for Abhyansh, everyone is scared of her a bit and respects her...

"Dadi sa... I...", Avyan started but Isha interrupted him...

"I asked him to do so Rajmata... It's not his fault", she said, she didn't understand why is everyone making a big issue out of it, she didn't know that all this have a lot of importance in their culture, especially in royal families since she never experienced that royal life or their customs after her parents' death.

"No, you are the wife of his elder brother who is also the king, you should be respected, he cannot call you by your name...", Devyani declared

"Ji Dadi sa", Avyan said bowing his head in her respect, though he doesn't have any love or affection for the old woman, he did have respect for her... She is the one who stopped his father from mistreating his mother not once, but many times...

"How should he address me then??", Isha asked softly to the graceful woman screaming power in front of her...

"Bhabhi sa...", Devyani said shocking everyone...

"But Maharaj said...", Isha started but was cut by Devyani

"Soon... Soon, the king himself will command the Prince (Avyan) to call you that", Saying this Devyani walked away with a hidden smirk...

Just because she doesn't say anything or involve much doesn't mean she didn't know anything... She is a very clever woman who observes everything. Everyone in the family might have missed Abhyansh's changed behaviour, but not her... She is one of the first teachers of Abhyansh Singh Ranawat before he turned into a BEAST that he is today, maybe that's the reasonhe still listens to her words sometimes... Maybe always, but she is a very prideful woman, she wouldn't indulge in many things or advise him on things as if at all he refuses, her ego will be bruised, and she didn't want that...

She noticed all the minor changes in Abhyansh, she ignored them, but the previous night, when he asked Isha not to taste the food and serve him directly, she understood what's happening. And now, hearing what Isha said, her smirk widened. The BEAST who hasn’t allowed anyone to hold their head high in front of him now wanted his wife to do that. Finally, her grandson is coming back to line, thought she...

"What just happened now??", Avyan questioned looking at the retreating figure of his grandmother...

"Ignore it Avyan, she might have said it like that", Isha said

"No, Dadi sa doesn't say anything just for the sake of saying, if she says something, there will be deeper meaning to it, she hardly talks... After Bhai sa, she is the one who hardly talks, she does only when she is very sure of it...", Avyan said thinking deeply...

"Avyan, did your brother really say that or am I hearing things??", Isha asked

"Of course you are hearing things, he can't say that, or there is one possibility, maybe he is testing you??", Avyan put his doubts in front of Isha

"Test?? What test and why??", Isha questioned back

"I don't know, but he definitely can't ask you to do that, that's...that's impossible", Avyan said remembering how his brother slit the throat of their enemy who was a very powerful man as well just for rising his head in front of him... The gang war that happened after that is scary... Even imagining that sent trembles to Avyan...

Isha shook her head and went to have her breakfast, dispersing her thoughts... after she finished her breakfast, and packing food for her brother, she left with Avyan after bidding bye to Amrutha...

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CHAPTER – 20

Isha returned in the evening at her usual time but surprisingly, she saw her husband who would be in his home office at this time usually, sitting in the hall in his royal throne chair, opposite him sat an old man, she could say with the white hair on his head...

She is confused about whether to greet her husband, who is the king... Normally, it's the rule that if someone enters the palace and sees the king, they greet him by bowing their head and then carry forward with the work, but now, he is in a meeting and so she is wondering what to do while walking inside but suddenly she heard the old man's voice which halted her steps...

"Your highness, you are my last hope, day by day, Bhupinder's atrocities are increasing, he harasses the girl students, and female teachers, beats the boys, and won't let the students and teachers enter the school", said the old man, keeping his head down in king's respect

"From when is this happening??", Abhyansh asked in his usual cold tone

"From the past one-month Maharaj", the old man said

"And you are coming to me now??", Abhyansh asked sternly, the old man who is the head teacher at the school shivered at his tone, he knew he should have come there earlier as theirking never wanted his people to suffer and who makes them suffer will see his Beastly form... "Anyways... I'll look into it, Is everything else fine at the school?? Do the caterers supply good meals now??", Abhyansh asked

"Yes Maharaj, after you talked to the caterers, they are now, supplying very good food for the students, the food quality is so good that even teaching and non-teaching staff is having food at the school only...", the old man said, Isha who is hearing the conversation, now remembered who he is...

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