Page 17 of The Royal Beast & His Rising Queen

"What?? Who made you angry bhai??", Isha who just entered the chamber frowned seeing her calm brother with irritation...

"Who else??", Ranveer responded, and Isha smiled

"Rana sa called??", Isha asked and Ranveer nodded... "so, you are staying right??", Isha asked hopefully looking at Vikram... and when he nodded, she smiled... "I'm sorry for everything you had to hear earlier Vikram... please don't mind his words, he didn't mean them", Isha said

"What did he say Vikram??", Ranveer asked, and Vikram shook his head mouthing a 'later' and Ranveer sighed

"Ishu... don't think about things much... it's fine", Vikram said and this time, Isha didn't correct him to call her as 'Isha' as she doesn't want to be so rude when he is being so understanding...

"Okay then, I'm tired, I'm going to my room, call me if you need anything", Isha said

"Don't worry, sleep tight bacha... we are fine, I'll ask the servants if I need anything", Ranveer said, and Isha nodded

"Bye Aryan", Isha told in a loud voice to the kid who is busy playing video games in the room...

"Isha... you are here??", Aryan who heard Isha got excited...

"Yeah, she is here for the past 15 minutes, you are so busy with your video games that you forgot the world around you", Vikram reprimanded...

"Come on Vik... this chamber is so huge that I didn't hear her coming", the kid defended himself while walking to Isha...

"He is right... Aryan, go and play, we'll meet tomorrow, I'll show you around the whole palace, what's say??", Isha said and Aryan got very excited, from the time he came, he is hell bound by the palace architecture and wanted to explore the place badly...

"Wow Ishu... I love you, you are so cool, thank you", Aryan said

Isha smiles, talks for a while with them before walking back to her chamber...

"Now tell me, what did my rude and arrogant brother-in-law say to you??", Ranveer asked his best friend as soon as his sister left their chamber...

Vikram told everything Abhyansh told him except for the thing he and Isha are hiding from Ranveer, he just told him that he is talking to Isha about something when Abhyansh came and said all those things...

"It's clearly visible, that man loves Isha a lot, but I am still worried about her, considering Isha's soft mentality, can she put up with his dominant personality??", Vikram expressed his worries

"As much as I hate that man for hurting my sister, I had to admit, only she could handle him, I saw BEAST's other version when he is with Isha... now, I understand his sudden call...Ranawat has an ego larger than his empire, its very hard for him to call and ask you to stay here after what all he told you, by his words, its clear that he hates you, yet he got ready to have you in his palace, that explains how much he cares for Isha... he doesn't want Isha to leave to Rajput palace at this time and suffer...", Ranveer said analysing carefully the possible discussion between his sister and brother-in-law...

"Hm... I agree, he didn't want Isha to ask me to stay after what she told me, that explains the call", Vikram said and Ranveer nodded...

"Though that man loves her, I still can't stay at peace, I am not confident about him not hurting her... and I can't let that happen... if I could turn things back, I'll definitely stop the wedding...", Ranveer said holding his forehead, Vikram's face paled at the mention of Isha's marriage... Ranveer would never forgive him if he gets to know what he did... "what do you think I should do Vik?? Isha is not agreeing to divorce that man, even if she agrees, it's not only hard but impossible to escape from the BEAST's clutches", Ranveer said

"With the kind of behaviour you are displaying, I thought you liked him and accepted him as your family, but you still think of getting Isha divorced??", Vikram asked

"I care for Ranawat, you are the first and last person I'll be accepting this fact to, my care and respect is for him as a good king, I still resent him as my sister's husband, and I won't approve of him, maybe I never will", Ranveer said and that further made Vikram nervous, he thought of confessing the truth to Ranveer after he starts accepting his brother-in-law and love him but things seem to be far...

Both the men talked for a while before Vikram and Aryan dispersed to their chamber and slept.

Isha, after coming out of her brother's chamber, walked to her room, and changed into her pyjamas, before laying down on the bed, though she is tired, sleep is far away from her... she is still mad at her husband, but she couldn't ignore the fact that she is used to him beside her before falling asleep...

Just then she saw her husband coming inside with his MacBook in his hand...

"Rana sa...", Isha started speaking when he came towards the bed...

"Lay down, I'll change and come...", he said placing his laptop and leaving to washroom... A wide smile appeared on Isha's face... her husband usually comes a little later than today, he completes his work at his study and comes inside their chamber, he hates working on the bed, and he rarely brings work to their room... but today, since she is feeling very tired but couldn't sleep without him beside her, he brought his work there... his consideration made her heart flutter... she still remembered how he was at the start of their marriage, he was not the one to consider other's feelings, he never did that for anyone, but now he does, though only for her... he came back and sat beside her, opening his mac...

"Sleep now...", he said working with his right hand and his left hand ruffling her hair softly...

"You hate working on the bed", she said...

"Not anymore... sleep now... you are tired...", he said patting her head softly... she hummed holding his palm, and fell asleep in a few minutes, but sleep is far away from his eyes... every time he sees her in pain, it haunts him... he does everything with ease, he doesn't have to struggle for anything, he is pro at things, even loving her comes to him naturally, the only thing he tries hard is to control his anger and the BEAST inside him, so that they never hurt her...

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