Page 115 of The Royal Beast & His Rising Queen

Abhyansh slowly walked to Ranveer and patted his back, shocking Ranveer. Did his beast of a brother-in-law console him ?? It was an act of Consolance right ?? Ranveer is about to open his mouth to ask him if it was what he is thinking but Abhyansh glared at him, daring him to say a word about it which shut him up.

"I didn't know Ishu was treated so badly, one day, I returned home from the police station, I saw Ishu cutting vegetables at midnight... she was barely 13 at that time... when I asked her, she said she couldn't sleep so preparing for the next day's breakfast and lunch. Then I didn't know my mother used to slap her for getting late in preparing breakfast that my sister had to sacrifice her sleep for it. I thought Ishu cooked because she liked it, I let her as I thought she chose it as a distraction for her pain of losingher parents and Dadi. She loved cooking since she was a child, she used to spend hours with bhabho in the kitchen cooking bhabhosa's favourite food, so I imagined she was trying hard not to miss her parents but I was so wrong... my mother made her cook daily and my father made her work like a maid in her own palace, he used to punish her even if she got a minute late", Ranveer said gulping his pain...

Abhyansh clutched his chair handle tightly to stop himself from breaking everything in the room. The fury he is feeling is unimaginable, he so wanted to kill Kailash and Sheela Rajput as well as himself... he too had hurt her badly right ?? That thought diverted the fury to himself...

"How are you different ?? You did the same to her, in fact, worse huh ?? Remember ??", Ranveer taunted Abhyansh with fiery eyes...

"I didn't forget Rajput, and will never, the fire of regret will burn me for life, I won't talk about this regret or apologize to your sister frequently, you know why ??", Abhyansh asked looking at Ranveer who stared at him, now with soft eyes... "your sister would try to soothe my pain and remove my guilt if she gets to know about it, but I don't want it, I deserve to burn in regret for my whole life, I chose this punishment for myself", Abhyansh said, Ranveer felt his pain, living in regret is 100 times painful than death and what more can be a bigger punishment than feeling this pain for every second of your life ??

"I thought my mother treated Isha like a human, if not a princess, how wrong I was... my sister got her first period, and she was denied basic things like sanitary napkins... hell, no one was even there to tell her how to use them or why she was bleeding, she felt extreme pain and fear, that cruel woman didn'teven let anyone help my Ishu till 2 days...", Ranveer's voice cracked, with two tears slipping from his eyes...

Ranveer couldn't even describe how the lady described the incident, Isha was clutching her stomach and rolling on the floor in pain, screaming for help but no one came to her rescue, Sheela Rajput didn't allow anyone to help until she felt maybe Isha would die if none helped her...

Abhyansh's heart ached hearing all of it, the pain was too much and he didn't know what to do to hold his fury, he clutched the pocket knife tightly, to inflict pain within, to hold the anger...

"Every month, my mother made Ishu her slave for a week, for access to the necessary things during that time... ", Ranveer said and Abhyansh shook his head in fury... "not necessary things too, only sanitary napkins, just a few... my sister used to cry in pain, yet she had to cook, clean, and take care of every chore while managing her pain... she didn't even have access to hot water", he added making Abhyansh tighten his grip on the knife, his hot blood dripping drop by drop...

"I bought new clothes for Ishu from time to time but after I moved outfor my college and then to London for masters, she was never allowed to buy clothes for herself, when she asked my mother for her old clothes, since all her clothes are worn out, Sheela Rajput forced the female servants to give their old clothes to my Ishu...", Ranveer said, his blood boiled thinking about that incident. "After that incident...Ishu learned stitching from a female servant and used to collect all the remains of the cloth the Royal designer left and started making her clothes out of them... how did I not notice all these ?? I was the biggest fool, my sister pretended to be fine and I believed it, no one can be more stupid than me, I couldn't find out despite her being a very bad liar",Ranveer said, regrets filled his tone and this time Abhyansh didn't bother to make him feel better, neither did he want him to feel better, he was furious at how stupid Ranveer actually was and his foolishness led to his wife's sufferings...

"Rajput...", Abhyansh called, his tone too cold, it got chills to Ranveer who looked up... "Out", he said too calm for his demeanour... Ranveer didn't argue or say a word, he just got up and left knowing his brother-in-law's temper...

Isha's phone vibrated again after an hour, Abhyansh sighed seeing Ragini's name... he cut the call to send her the message, and looks like she got it as she didn't call back.

Looking at the time, Abhyansh got the lunch ready before walking to the room to wake his wife up...

As soon as his eyes fell on her, he was remembered of all the pain she had gone through...

"I will give them so much pain that they will wish for a hell rather than being in my den, I promise you...", Abhyansh said kissing her forehead... he sighed looking at his right palm, which was now wrapped in a white bandage, the fear of his wife got him to get it treated immediately after his fury went down to some extent...

How would he hide it from her ?? He can't even lie to her, he didn't want to... it's better to avoid her thought he. Abhyansh walked back to his cabin and arranged the lunch in the room for her before waking her up...

"Rani sa... I have got your lunch arranged, just have it and go back to sleep, I'll see you in a while...", Abhyansh said and she hummed sleepily...

"Aap nahi khayenge ??(won't you eat ??)", she asked in her sleepy tone, her eyes still closed... a small smile formed on his lips at her concern even when she was half asleep...

"I will, just a little later... get up and have food my bacha... please", he said kissing her forehead and she opened her eyes to stare at his beautiful face, after hearing his endearment... her heart does a somersault every time he calls her that...

She pulled him by his collar wanting to sleep in his arms for some time... he understood what she wanted, so silently half lay on the bed, and she hid herself in his warmth, hugging, pulling him as close as possible...

"Should I cancel the meeting ??", Abhyansh asked softly ruffling her hair all the while hiding his injured palm from her eyes, thankfully she is half asleep still...

"No... you can go, I'll have lunch in some time, let me sleep for 5 more minutes, I don't want to get up", she whined and he kissed her hair nodding.

"Okay... I'll call you after 20 minutes to remind you... okay ??", he said and she nodded her eyes closed... he chuckled at it... "you are too cute for your own good, know that ??", he said but she was too sleepy to respond...

He slowly detangled himself from her, and put her phone on sound mode, before walking away to his meeting. And exactly after 20 minutes, he called her.

"Rana sa, I am awake and having lunch, you can concentrate on your meeting", she said as soon as she picked up his call.

He sighed in relief and hung up making her smile at his relieved sigh. Now, she could even sense her husband's breathing pattern and figure out his response.

After having her lunch, she freshened up, and feeling fresh, she got back to work and called her husband after some time to remind him of his lunch. He gets very grumpy if he skips his meals or it gets delayed. A grumpy Abhyansh Singh Ranawat is dangerous for society, she thought giggling to herself...

"Yes, Rani sa", he said into the phone in his serious tone and she got he was doing something very important and regretted disturbing him immediately...

"Sorry to disturb you, but have lunch, it's almost past your lunchtime", she said softly and he hummed before hanging up... he then realized half of the reason for his irritation, though everything is perfectly alright in the meeting, exactly how he wanted...

"Let's resume this meeting in 15", he said getting up, everyone got up, and bowed down. Abhyansh had his food and returned exactly in 15 minutes, after messaging his wife about it.

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