Pregnant For The Royal Prince

? Kuru Kingdom ?

THE BAHWAN PALACE

THE door to little Alisha’s room opened and her mother, her grace, Lady Aarti entered. She halted, closing the door behind her and looking around the room.

It was all pink as usual, and there on the bed was her Alisha, flipping through a story book.

She smiled and walked up to her.

“Hi little princess”, she called.

Alisha for the first time looked up from her book, a big smile played on her face as she got down the bed and rushed to her mother.

“Momma”, she said as she jumped on her.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Aarti laughed and caught her, then carried her up.

“How was your night baby?” She asked, caressing her cheeks.

“Very fine momma”, she grinned broadly, “and yours?” She added.

“Great”, she nodded and then dropped her on the bed.

Alisha went back to her book.

“Have you taken your bath yet?” Aarti asked.

“Yes mother, nanny just left here now”, she said looking at her.

“And your breakfast?”

“Aww no mom, I am not hungry yet, I will tell nanny when I am”, she pouted.

Aarti sighed.

“So what are you reading?” She asked.

“Oh, a story book. This is the latest story book dad got me”, she raised it up for her to see.

“Alright, read well, because you are going to tell me the plot of the story, the characters and most especially, the lessons you learnt”, she winked.

“Sure mom, I know that already”.

“That’s my princess, have you seen dad this morning?” She asked, getting up.

“Yeah, he is at the training ground, he said he was gonna be heading there”, she explained.

“Alright princess, I will catch you later”, she began walking towards the door.

“Mom?” Alisha called back, and she halted, then turned to her.

“Yes baby?”

“Mom, have you seen her?” She asked.

Aarti was confused, what was she talking about?

“Seen who baby?” She asked.

Alisha sighed.

“Seen the kind girl from the tourist site?”

“Oh”, she mouthed, closing her eyes. She really hadn’t begin the search for her, it wasn’t the most important for now anyway, hence the delay.

“I am sorry Ali baby, we have more important things on ground now, we will surely do that later”, she said.

Alisha said nothing, she kept mute staring at her mother. Why has mom kept skipping this whenever she brings it up?

“Trust me”, her mom said, winking. She watched Alisha sighed and turned to her book, then she walked out.

She really understands why her daughter is so much bent on rewarding the kind lady, it was something any other person would just overlook, but for royals, it isn’t. Every kind gestures never go unrewarded… never.

She got to the training ground few minutes later, it was behind the palace building, close to the garden.

She began hearing sounds the warriors made as they got on with their training.

The training ground was a large spacious open ground, at the front was a huge raised podium, it was a roofed building and built with huge pillars.

There in the building, she sighted her husband, Prince Rudra, as he sipped coffee and watched the warriors train.

Four guards stood at different positions.

“I have told you Maharana, to tell the warriors to put back their swords in its sheaths, there is no war”, she said walking up to him.

Rudra turned to her and smiled.

“My lady”, he said stretching out his golden sceptre.

Aarti sighed and touched the tip of the sceptre with her right hand, then bowed her head.

“Good morning, Your Grace”, she greeted.

“Morning sunshine”, he drew her closer for a hug, then their lips met in a passionate kiss.

“You are stressing yourself baby, tell the warriors to go rest”, she said, turning to look at them.

Rudra sipped coffee from the teacup in his left hand.

“Hold it Aarti, you caused it”, he said, his eyes fixed on the training warriors.

“There you go again. I caused nothing, and besides, my nephew had taken care of it, there isn’t war anymore”, she said.

“How sure are you?” He asked.

She turned to him.

“Very sure. Raghav had taken care of that, there isn’t any more feud”, she said.

“Fine, we are training just to be alert, war can strike out anytime, from any kingdom”, he licked his lips.

One of the warriors suddenly left the training ground and began walking up to them.

“Huh? Who dares that?” Aarti asked.

“Oh, that is Zashil”, he replied shortly.

“Zashil? When did he return?” She asked as she watched the heavily built young man walk up to them and putting back his sword in its sheath.

“Yesterday night, you had already slept off when he entered Kuru”, he said and turned to him, he had already climbed up the stairs to the building.

“Huh”, Aarti said, watching him come up to them.

“Hi bro”, Zashil said stretching out his right hand for a handshake.

Rudra smiled as they shook hands.

“Seems today’s training is boring, hence you leaving just like that?”

“Yeah bro…”.

“Zashil”, Aarti called.

“Your Grace, may you live long”, he took a big bow in front of her.

“So it’s only your brother you could see?” She asked not smiling.

“I actually saw you my Lady, but I had wanted to pay homage to the Prince first”, he was still bowing.

Just then, the army commander came up to seek Rudra’s attention, they began discussing

“It’s okay Maharana. I heard you returned yesterday night?” She asked.

He stood straight.

“Yeah, so how are you and little Ali? I haven’t really seen her”, he said.

“I am fine. Ali gonna scream out the minute she sets her eyes on uncle Zashil”, they laughed.

“I know”, he cleaned the sweat off his forehead.

“So how are you doing? And your princess? You were supposed to come with her”, she smiled.

Zashil sighed and looked away. His princess? She wasn’t his princess anymore?

“What happened huh?” She asked, noticing his fallen countenance.

“Well Naavya and I aren’t together anymore, she is even the reason I came back”.

“What? But you were already talking about proposing to her right?” She asked.

“Yeah I was, but you see, Naavya doesn’t love me. She is only with me because I’m a Prince, a royal blood”, he explained.

“How did you know Zashil?” She folded her arms.

“I caught her red-handed cheating on me, the afternoon I was going to propose, that was yesterday. I couldn’t bear the pains anymore, I just had to return”.

“Aww, you must have really gone through a lot. Rudra says that you are always unlucky with love, now I see it. It really hasn’t been too long since you broke up with Saanvi, and now Naavya… it must have really been painful”.

He nodded.

“Yeah, very”.

“You just have to cool it for now Zashil, the best gonna come. Meanwhile, I can recommend for you if you wish”, she winked.

He let out a dry laugh.

“Recommend? Anyways, I will be glad to let you, I mean the ones I have been recommending myself are all a waste of time”, he looked towards the training ground, the warriors were still training.

Aarti smiled broadly.

“You know it’s in the tradition to recommend brides for our princes, it’s only now left for you to accept her or not”, she explained.

“I know”, he nodded.

“The lady is from Shimla kingdom”, she said.

“Shimla? The almighty Shimla kingdom?” He asked.

She smiled and nodded.

“I don’t expect you to know her anyway, I’ll send you everything you need to know about her, so you can make an approach”, she shrugged her shoulders.

“Alright my Lady, you just have to be fast”, he winked, and she bursted into laughter.

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?? Shimla Kingdom ??

|THE BHAGYA PALACE|

Rina together with Alina, her always team mate, were trimming the overgrown flowers in the garden that fateful morning.

Alina had finally learnt not to leave the work for Rina any more, why not? She doesn’t want to get spanked, the punishments were tedious.

Rina stood at one end trimming, Alina stood at the other end, also trimming.

This was the work for the gardeners, but as a general duty maid, they were asked to do it, the gardeners were off duty for now and the garden, really needed a new look.

They had worked for like an hour and Rina stopped, she looked around, they were just maids and guards as usual, patrolling.

Since she got to the palace, she had never for once set eyes on the King, and even the Queen was just once.

Hmm, she wondered what they looked like. Her thoughts drifted off to the prince, and she sighed.

She was still thinking when she noticed two men walk into the garden, she resumed working immediately.

With the corner of her eyes, she watched. Oh my! It was the Prince… and the other guy was Zoya, his personal guard.

Hmm, what were they here for now? She ignored them and focused on her work.

They walked further into the garden, discussing.

“Good morning Your Grace”, trust Alina, she was the first to greet.

Raghav turned to her and nodded, then walked up to the fountain with Zoya following.

Rina watched them from her position and prayed he doesn’t notice her yet, he hadn’t yet known she was in the garden as well.

“Are you the only one working here?” He asked Alina.

“Um… yes. I mean no”, she replied, stuttering.

Raghav instantly depicted she was there too, that’s Rina, he began looking for her. Zoya tried following him, but he stopped him.

“You thought you could easily run?” He asked on getting to her.

She was right there in the garden as well, working.

Rina sighed, why had he come? To make her cry again?

“Good morning Your Grace”, she genuflected.

“You still haven’t given me a reply Rina”, he said to her.

She slowly dropped the secateur on the carpet grass under her feet, then turned to face him.

“What exactly is your fear?” He asked.

“Huh? Everything, everything is my fear”, she pouted, looking away.

He exhaled deeply then took her left hand, caressing her palm.

“I love you Rina, and I’m down to protect you even with my life, you don’t have to be scared”, he looked into her eyes.

She felt her throat tearing up, was she about to cry again? Gosh! She’s so emotional, so so.

“That’s the bottom line Maharana, I am scared”, her voice gave her away, it was cracking up and so low.

“Don’t be”, he took her hand close to his lips, and kissed the back of her palm.

What! Jeez, he just kissed her huh? She looked at him. She wasn’t going to pretend anymore, she was gonna tell herself the truth, she was in love with him.

“But my Prince, why do you choose me? I’m just a maid, no educational qualifications, nothing I have to be worthy of being yours, why me?”

He smiled.

“You are just you, and I like you for being you. It’s a feeling Rina, and I just cannot comprehend it, I can’t”, he said.

A little smile played on her lips.

“I love you too Prince Raghav”, she said, the tears now slowly dropping.

“Huh?” He looked at her and she nodded.

“Yeah, I love you”, she whispered and he drew her closer for a passionate hug.