Page 152 of The Royal Beast & His Rising Queen

"Hm...", she hummed in irritation in sleep frowning...

"Okay, sleep, I won't disturb you", he whispered ruffling her hair... after she completely dozed off, he kissed her forehead and went to freshen up... he offered prayers to his Shiva, Abhyansh never wished for anything from him, he just prayed to his Mahadev, he is devoted to him, his devotion is not a part of give and take policy, he believed his Lord knows what to give, whom to give and when to give, he never questioned him, never asked him anything, he just performed his duties and did what he felt is right. But from the time his wife entered his life, there was always this unsaid and unthought plea in Abhyansh's head tokeep his wife safe and happy. He can't even imagine something happening to her, it scared him a lot. He never expressed his fears to anyone, not even to his wife but how could he hide it from his Mahadev ??

After he was done with all the prayers, he walked back to his room to see a lady servant entering the room to clean the coffee that was spilled on the floor. She greeted him bowing her head down and that's when Isha entered with another cup of coffee. She fumed seeing her husband half nak*d with just his red shawl barely covering his upper body.

"Ratna... please leave, I'll clean it", Isha said sternly, and that made her leave immediately...

"Next time, you come out of the temple, put a pin over here", Isha said holding his shawl together covering his whole upper body. Abhyansh who understood his wife's jealousy smirked at it, his heart warmed at her possessiveness but chose to tease her.

"Why should I ?? It's not like they have never seen me like that...", he said mentioning the Pujas and yagnas he does at the main temple every year in front of thousands of crowd for the benefit of his people.

"That's before I came into your life, now it's different... I don't like any woman seeing you like this", she said, now, he remembered how she pinned his shawl during the last Maha Shiv Ratri Puja they both performed together. She observed his shawl kept displacing due to the heavy winds. He thought she did it to make it easy for him but now he understood her possessiveness.

"Why ??", he asked pulling her by her waist...

"You know why? Now have your coffee and get changed", she said taking his hands off her, before walking to clean the coffee, he put his coffee cup away and walked to her pulling her away.

"I'll ask someone to clean it", he said, he couldn't see her doing all this stuff...

"Why ?? To show off your body ??", she taunted him, he is amused at her choice of words, he never thought about women finding him attractive or not, it never crossed his head, his anti-social attitude never let him think about it, only after marriage did he start looking into mirror to make sure he is looking fine. He just wants to look good to his wife. He knew he was extremely good-looking but never thought about putting his features into use until marriage.

Isha knew her husband was far from doing all that but she was angry.

"Fine then I'll clean it, but not you", he said bending down, when she stopped him.

"Leave it, I'll ask someone to do it later, go and have your coffee, this is the second time I'm bringing it, I won't do it again... I can't come all the way here for the third time", she said and he cupped her face in concern.

"Why are you bringing it from the main kitchen ?? You are supposed to make it here right ??", he asked mentioning their kitchen in their chamber... after they got the kitchen in their chamber, she mostly prepared his coffee and some basic snacks there as its easily accessible rather than going all the way to the head kitchen in the central wing of the palace.

"We don't have milk here, and today I woke up late, so couldn't bring them from the main kitchen, now stop with your questions and have coffee Rana sa", she said handing him the coffee. He sat on the couch having his coffee, she is about to leave when he pulled her to sit beside him. He enjoyed having his coffee with her beside him.

"Why are you bringing milk and other things yourself ?? Usually, servants drop it here no ?", he asked and she sighed.

"I'm not a queen to have servants at my service Rana sa, and it's better this way, I like to do things on my own", she said shocking him. He just thought she refused to respond when someone was addressing her 'Rani sa' but now by hearing her he understood she is actually putting it into action by doing things that a queen is not supposed to.

"Are you serious right now ??", he fumed

"Ab subha subha jagda na kare humse(Now, Please don't fight with me early in the morning)", she got up and quickly left, as she knew her husband was extremely mad now.

He freshened up and walked down to the breakfast table

During breakfast, he kept glaring at her and she looked the other way trying to ignore his glares. She is very afraid of the consequences, her husband would tolerate her every disrespectful act to some extent and her rebellious attitude for the sake of his extreme love for her but causing discomfort to herself isn't one of them. Isha is thinking all of this while serving her husband.

"Rani sa... it's very hot, you'll hurt yourself", the servant who is serving the other family members cautioned Isha when she saw her about to touch the hot soup vessel instead of the ladle. Isha who was busy in her deep thoughts didn't hear her, Abhyansh held her hand before she hurt herself.

"ISHA... what the hell is wrong with you ??", Abhyansh shouted scaring everyone, he thought she purposely did that to show how unresponsive she could be when she is addressed as 'Rani sa'.

Isha came out of her thoughts when she heard her husband's loud voice. Looking at him holding her wrist, she understood the whole thing.

"I... I didn't see", she fumbled looking at the furious look on his face, but his anger is unmatched now. She could do anything but cannot hurt herself, that's unbearable for him.

Abhyansh got even angrier at her answer. She didn't see ?? How can she not, He got up from his chair making everyone else too get up... this never happened, he never got up in the middle of having food, it's considered disrespect to the food and he strictly followed all these traditions, but looking at him doing it, the family expected a heavy storm. Isha literally shivered anticipating what's about to come.

He pulled her with him to the main hall holding her wrist, she is so scared that not even a single word left her mouth.

"BHAIRAV", he shouted for Bhairav, who rushed to the king... "make the amendments to change the system... the changes RANI SA wanted... should be effective 30 days from now", Abhyansh declared shocking Bhairav and the whole family. "All the responsibilities that were handled by Rajmata DevyaniDevi and Mrs. Amruta Ranawat till 2 decades earlier will now be handled by Rani ISHA ABHYANSH SINGH RANAWAT", Abhyansh said coldly, stressing on 'RANI Isha' making his words loud and clear for everyone, especially to his crazy wife.

Amruta cupped her mouth in shock while Avyan and Pratap for a second forgot to breathe, they couldn't believe what was happening there. They never thought Abhyansh would again trust anyone else with these responsibilities after the mishap that happened almost 2 decades earlier. Devyani Devi was the only member in the family who has a comparatively better reaction, she is definitely surprised but it was a pleasant one. She did expect this, but not this soon. Her grandson sure loved his wife more than she thought him to.

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