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Chapter 24
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~CONFESSION!~
It was night now, the darkness have spread everywhere and he was still waiting for Princess Swara inside his room. Deciding to take some fresh air, he walked out of his room and saw few guards passing, he immediately went to them. “when will the Princess come?” it is the same question he is asking from the morning but still he was not tired but was really frustrated with their answers when they kept saying that they don’t know! “the Princess has returned long before”. He was surprised listening them, he thought Swara will definitely come to meet him after she came here, but was she so much angry with him to not talk to him? She might be tired. Convincing himself with numerous answers, he walked towards her room. Though he don’t know the whole palace, he was somewhat getting adjusted to the directions now. The doors of her room were wide opened but he couldn’t see her inside, confusion engulfed him. it was the time to sleep, if she was not in her room, then where was she? Thinking to once check in the garden, he moved out of the castle.. he was all ready to go back inside and check the King’s room once not finding her there but then his gaze caught her sitting on a swing. He sighed in relief finally getting a glimpse at her.. his eyes shined with happiness and he felt he was no more alone. Moving towards her, he was just right behind her but she seemed to be lost in her thoughts.. happiness has so much overwhelmed him finally seeing her, he finally found words in between his choking happiness and whispered, “where were you Princess? I missed you!” he saw her flinching a little hearing him but after few seconds, she turned back at him. and by seeing her pale face and her red eyes, he knew that she has cried a lot.. “Swara?” he whispered slowly seeing her, what has happened to her? He saw her standing from the swing and coming near him.. “are you fine? What happened to you?” he asked but got no response from her, he frowned seeing her silent and then she caught his wrist and started walking. He could do nothing but just follow her, they reached near the swing again.. he was looking at her keenly, something really bad has happened. it hurts a lot to see her like this, tears brimmed in his eyes too. She made him sit on the swing and sat near him.. so much close to him! A tear rolled down his cheeks seeing her lying her head on his shoulder and then she wrapped both of her soft hands around his arm tightly.. “I need to talk to you something..” she took her head and looked at him completing her sentence, “something important!” he nodded to her. Her hands were still holding him tightly, she released his arm from her grip and cupped his face brushing away his tears. “why are you crying?” she asked slowly. “because you look so sad! You look beautiful with your smile Princess!” a smile curved her lips hearing him, even between these soul snatching guilt she is suffering from, his presence and his words seems to be so much soothing.
Her hands moved from his cheeks to his back pulling him in a hug as she hugged him tightly letting her tears flow again.. she closed her eyes whispering, “I went to Prathap Palace today!” as soon as the words escaped her lips, she no more found herself in his embrace.. she was jerked out of the hug by him as he caught her shoulders tightly and he was looking at her in horror. “Swara? You..” he stammered feeling fear embracing him as his hands moved from her shoulders and cupped her face. “you should have not gone there.. it’s really so dangerous. How can you? Are you fine?” he asked hugging her tightly making her close her eyes and burst out in tears. she hugged him back tightly, he was thinking about her but what she have addressed him there? “Sanskar! listen to me!” she said in between her cries giving strength to herself to not fall weak which she already is now! Breaking the hug, she looked at him staring at her worried with his tears. she moved more closer to him gaining a little courage.. “King Prathap has a lot of respect for this country. He will believe me! So I told him everything..” she stopped looking at Sanskar crying, he was not telling anything but was just listening to her as she asked him to! “will you forgive me?” she asked whispering looking at him with so much guilt. He kept looking at her.. what has happened to her suddenly? Was it necessary to inform the King? And now, she is safe and sound even after going there for which he was thanking god. But forgiveness? From him? For what? “Swara? What happened? why are you crying?” he asked trying to wipe her tears while she held his hands stopping him and locked his hands between her hands.. “please forgive me Sanskar!” she whispered crying more making him confused as she continued, “while telling everything to the King.. I said in front of everyone that Prince Sahil sent his..” her words remained incomplete as she could no more control her loud sobs and again hid herself in his chest murmuring a ‘sorry’ while he understood what she would have said there.. A SLAVE!
Breaking the hug, he wiped her tears making her more guilt seeing his emotionless face. “that’s fine Princess!” she pressed her lips in a thin line as he addressed her as Princess. “that is my reality. No one can change it!” he said standing up, she saw how hurt he looked, he turned to go and she caught his wrist. “I am sorry!” she whispered and he turned back to her.. she cried as he freed his wrist from her grip. “no need of that”. He looked away saying this wiping his lone tear hating his reality. “I am sorry.. I want to be alone!” saying this he started walking, she stood up, her hand almost reached to stop him but then she stopped herself and looked down whispering, “I will not stop you!” he stopped walking and looked back at her, his soul broke to see her so much broken. She closed her eyes remembering her father’s words when he said that she can give Sanskar his happiness only by giving him freedom. Opening her eyes, she looked at him and said, “I have already forced you a lot! I will not stop you now. Do whatever you want Sanskar!” she looked at him, tears were flowing from his eyes making her more hurt.. moving towards him, she wiped his tears whispering, “I can’t even breathe properly if you get a small hurt!” saying this, she went from there wiping her tears that failed to stop. He gets shocked hearing her words.. he looked down blinking his eyes unable to get over her words that had touched him so much.. He looked at her retreating figure with tears and confusion. What happened to her? And her words that she will not stop him, her forgiveness to him, the words which she said just now had managed to make him shiver. She disappeared from his sight but he was unable to move his eyes from that direction, he was still just looking there with the hope to see her again!
He can’t understand anything, she looked so hurt and her words.. she forced him? when? He sighed, why was this so complicated.. staring at the sky, he again sat on the same swing trying to understand what she meant.. but then suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head as his hands immediately went to his head,
“I can’t even breathe properly if you get a small hurt!”
She had said this to him even before this.. but when? Few blur images appear in front of him making him more frustrated as he caught his head tightly.. that night.. when she came to Prathap Palace and treated his wounds.. that night when he fought with the guards and the royal assistant for her.. that night when he found himself in her embrace when he was actually expecting death to consume him, she came like an angel and saved him!.. those words.. she said it that night to him when he was unconscious because of his wounds..
“I can’t even breathe properly if you get a small hurt!”
“you have really gone mad!”
“you have hurt yourself this much? Who did this?”
He caught his head more tightly closing his red teary eyes feeling extreme pain finally remembering everything.. her soothing caresses on his wounds.. her tight hug.. her soft kiss on his hair.. she held his hands and asked whispering that night,
“who told that you don’t have right to hold me, Sanskar?”
Tears rolled down his eyes to remember her words..
“do you even know what you mean to me?”
His eyes wide opened finally feeling the pain vanishing and remembering everything! Yes! She was getting mad at him for not taking care of himself, she scolded him.. she hugged him.. she kissed his hairs.. what does he mean to her? He remembered how she got promise from him to take care of himself while coming to the Mithra Palace, she was so angry and told him that he broke his promise by not taking care of himself. Whenever a thought comes to his mind, that maybe Princess Swara loves him, he always brushes away those thoughts by convincing himself that she will not love a slave, but today he couldn’t just do that.. he whispered slowly, “what do I mean to you Princess?”…
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She walked inside the large main court of the Palace which was empty now. ‘The Sword of Power’ was placed right above the royal chair of the King. It was glowing and shining beautifully in that place adding pride to this Palace and her country! She moved towards it, this was her only dream before few days but how her life has suddenly changed so much! Her father has fallen ill, she has fallen in love! Life has turned to be so much unpredictable now.. she doesn’t have any idea what to do further. Everything seemed so much miserable, don’t know whether this powerful sword has given her any power but the mission of achieving it turned to be the most beautiful phase of her life with Sanskar. The Sword has actually united them! She was just floating in a pool of guilt and miseries now. The guilt that she was unable to choose between Sanskar and this sword.. yes! That guilt is still inside her, but today, Sanskar’s silence to her words, when he said that it is his reality. She palmed her face breaking down, she turned out to be such a loser now who had insulted the whole Prathap family just for one single person’s fault, who had forced her love and now she don’t know how she was going to make everything right.. taking the palms from her face that was wet with tears, she caressed the sword in front of her remembering the moments she spent with Sanskar in the place of competition. She stood there for hours gazing at the sword with tears when suddenly she felt a very familiar shiver.. Sanskar is here! She soon heard his voice too, “Swara?” she turned back forgetting to wipe her tears before seeing him.. she looked at him looking at her with so many questions which she can’t understand. He came near her and stood in front of her, she was just looking at him, waiting for him to say something.. his shivering hands went to her cheeks wiping her tears. “what happened to you Princess? What do you want?” he looked at her as more tears formed in her eyes, she looked down closing her eyes and then she looked at him opening her eyes, “are you so much angry with me that you are not calling me Swara?” she asked innocently making a slight laugh escape his lips with tears. “I am not at all angry with you Swara!” she can see that he was genuinely telling it but she cannot forgive herself.. keeping her hands on his hands that were on her cheeks, she asked looking in his eyes, “do you want to go from here, Sanskar?” he just looked at her with shock and confusion. Was this question necessary now? But he had no answer for this, he can’t take a proper decision.. whether to become a slave and live his life alone following the orders of his master and live in the memories of this Princess or.. become selfish and live his life with this Princess whom he madly loves!.. “I don’t know!” he whispered slowly crying, he cannot lose her but this reality.. her grip on his hands tightened at the fear of asking the next question, the fear to lose him. “do you want to marry me? Answer me truthfully, Sanskar!” she whispered not leaving his hands, fear engulfing her and choking her to death.. will he say no? with all the moments they had spent, is it only she who loves him? does he not love her? Is he fearing for his reality? Sanskar could do nothing but stare at her.. truthfully? Then he loves her.. he wants to marry her! But.. he closed his eyes, tell the truth?.. He opened his eyes moving more close to her, “first tell me why do you want to marry me Swara?” she shivered at their closeness when she felt his breathe right above her face, she took her hands from his hands and cupped his face too moving more and more closer to him. “I have nothing! I am nothing!” she felt him coming more close to her saying those words in a bare whisper, he joined his forehead with her, even at such a moment when she doesn’t know what he will answer to her question, she could feel heat rushing upto her cheeks.. “I am nothing but a slave!” she didn’t dare to open her eyes but just tightened her caress on his face while his tears drenched her face.. “why do you want to marry me? Why are you doing this? Do..” she opened her eyes hearing him stammering, she saw his closed eyes, she didn’t fail to notice that he was gulping his tears.. “do you love me?” that escaped his throat in so low sound making her forget the world.. she never confessed him! just asked him to marry her not telling him the reasons! She again closed her eyes feeling his tears unable to say anything.. while he was so much desperate to get her answer not knowing how she will react, he heard nothing but still felt her closeness.. few minutes passed with silence until she spoke, “first you answer me Sanskar!” he departed himself from her and turned his back to her. Taking a deep breathe, he finally goes in a flow that.. this moment is the time for a slave to confess his undying love for the Princess! “I do want to!” he whispered closing his eyes, her hands reached to his shoulder but stopped listening his next words, “I do want to marry you.. live with you happily. But I don’t have any right!” he turned to her and caught her shoulders pulling her close to him. “reality cannot be changed, right? Then how can I wish for you? How can I marry you? How can I love you?” she looked at him shocked hearing those words and kept looking at his red eyes as he released her from his grip and looked down crying.. “reality cannot be changed!” he looked at her hearing her whisper.. “but we can fight with it Sanskar.. we can live happily, if you want to!” she said and forwaded her hand towards him, he looked at her hand and at her with moist eyes.. the last ray of hope and the last ray of light to finally unite with her! “but why do you want to do that?” he whispered and saw her frowning, she was about to take her hand back when he immediately caught her hand making her shocked with happiness.. “do you love me like I love you?” he asked immediately not wasting any more moment.. her lips curved widely hearing him, he loves her! That was enough for her, before he can speak anything, she placed her lips on his and cried in happiness kissing him happily. Her arms wrapping around his neck as she threw herself to him kissing him soundly and passionately washing away her guilt and proving her love for him. He wanted this! He had became selfish and now wanted to live with her, the decision was finally taken as his hands held her waist and his thirsty soul forced him to clasp his lips with hers gently making him feel the magic of love!…
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Precap: ~The Victory of love~
[EPILOGUE]
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A/N- so.. here ends my story..
just an epilogue more to solve all their problems..
i know that my story never depicted much happiness or any light hearted scene or much of romance..
i wrote this fully with only pain..
but i just felt like penning an absolutely painful and intense love story.. i hope i succeeded in it..
i am sorry if i have disappointed anyone by not making them enjoy and always writing about the pain of swasan..
and thanks a lot who have always supported me..
do mention in the comment box if you have any favourite scene in this story..
thank you all..