My eyes fluttered open as I felt warmth surrounding my whole body. I looked down and an inaudible chuckle left my throat as I saw my wife.

My wife was sleeping peacefully, her head was resting on my clothed chest and her hands were circled around my torso. I lifted my hand to brush the little hair falling on her face, as my harsh fingers touched her soft skin,I realized that she was burning with fever.

I instantly lifted her face and kept it on the pillow and encircled her hand from my torso, even though I liked the feeling of her hands around me but this is not the right time.

I stood up from the bed and took my phone from the night stand. I unlocked the device and saw that it was 5 in the morning and I know everyone is still asleep now. I internally nodded my head and made my way downstairs.

Reaching downstairs, I entered the kitchen and took a bowl out from the cupboard to fill water in it and then I went back to my chamber. I kept the water bowl on the nightstand and went inside the closet to get a white cotton cloth.

I sat on the bed and dipped the cloth in the water and then kept it on her forehead. I repeated it for a few times until I felt her temperature decreasing. Relief washed over me as I saw her still sleeping soundly.

If anyone from my family or friends have seen me doing this, they will be stunned.

Me caring for someone is something that no one saw in years.

It's been years since I have felt this.

I looked at my wife, fuck. My wife — she is finally my wife and this thing didn't settle in my brain till now. It was just like a dream. Her marrying me was a dream, the dream which I saw not while sleeping but being wide awake.

When dadu told me that I am getting married, I was stunned for a moment. I know that I am turning 30 soon, and I need to take over the throne and for that I need to get married as soon as possible.

I didn't know who kept this rule which is totally absurd.

I was furious and tried to reject the proposal though he was hell stubborn as he put a condition in front of me ‘ if you want to become the king then get married to the girl i choose or else forget about it.’ That's what he said. I was furious and left from there knowing that he can never agree with me.

I needed to become king not to rule the kingdom but to hunt down our demons. Becoming king means inviting problems, and I know if I become the king that person will surely come out from his little hole and will surely try to attack me.

And that's what I want, so I simply said yes to this marriage without seeing the girl.

This marriage was supposed to be nothing but a namesake relationship for me, everything was ready, the divorce papers, hefty money everything. The day I met Jiya — the girl I was supposed to be married to. Jiya told me that she loved me and wanted to marry me, I didn't believe her. judging her character, She is not a person who will marry for love and I got to know that after I saw her with my Bua.

Eventually I prepared myself to divorce her once I got married but things took a drastic turn as she ran away from the wedding. Like seriously, that girl said that she loved me then why did she run away. I know she never loved me, she wanted something else, which is still a mystery to me.

However my thoughts changed when I got to know that I am getting married to her. never in my fucking life i thought that she was Jiya's sister. I was truly shocked after knowing that she was a Mehrotra.

Noor never mentioned her surname. Not when she came to give the interview, nor in any certificates. I tried to get to know everything about her but there was nothing about her at that time.

After Noor got to know that her sister ran away and now she has to marry me the color of her face drained out and my heart clenched at the fact that she is not happy. But I was way too selfish to let her go when she herself came to me and for some reason dadi, dadu and pandit ji too asked her to marry me and their behavior felt odd.

The people who forced me to get married to Jiya wanted me to marry her sister after she ran away. I know that something is fishy and I will soon find out.

Soon, we were husband and wife. And I felt like I achieved something that day. One thing I hated most is tears in my woman's eyes.

But that's what I've been seeing since the day I got married. Mom was continuously crying and I don't know the reason why .

no worries I will find out soon.

And about my wife, I know why she was crying. But I can't do anything about it. It's her matter to solve. That motherfucker cheated on my wife. He cheated on a girl like Noor, a girl who is so pure and precious. But i am very thankful to him for that,if he didn't cheat on her then how will she become mine.

I hated piyush for years because he got something which i couldn't .but now he lost the diamond and I am extremely happy that the diamond reached its right place and that is here with me, in my palace.

✧

“call Rajat to my cabin” i ordered Sameer,he nodded and left my cabin.

After a few minutes, Rajat the palace security head walks into my cabin, he bows down as soon as he sees me. I nodded at him

“Didn't I tell you to seal the d wing?” i asked him, his eyebrows join together as he uttered “we did seal it hukum, yet in the morning we find the doors open and we found out that the cctv camera of that area are not working from the day of your marriage” i took a deep breath as his words sank in.

Who dared to enter inside?

Noor?

Nahi, i followed her last night and she isn't.

“ And did you find something fishy near the needles?” I asked as i striked out Noor's name from the list.

“ no hukum, except for your and ranisa's blood we found nothing” i nodded my head and he left the cabin, as he left the cabin Sameer along with jai entered inside.

“What happened?” Jai asked as he saw the seriousness in my face, i relaxed back on my chair,kept my both elbows on the arm rest as I joined my fingers together.

“ The gates of d wing were opened last night” i said and silence followed for a minute though Sameer broke it.

“ How can this happen? No one can enter there without a security check up then how?”

“ Looks like someone broke my barrier” i said as my jaw clenched

“ Last night, I followed Noor and she unknowingly went to the d wing, to my luck it was dark and all the lights were off or else she would have seen it.” I said, as I stood up from my chair and walked up to the large glass in the cabin.

“It was crystal clear that someone broke into it” i voiced out

“ Did you find out who it was?” Jai, who was silent all the time, asked me. I nodded as i turned to look at him

“ Someone from my family and i think I know who it is” i said and he thinned his eyebrows

“ Why would someone from your family do it?” Jai asked and I shrugged not wanted to answer his question.

“ Wait, koi purane paane kholna chahte hai ?” Sameer jumped in,I shook my head as i said

“ puraane paane kholne keliye unhee band kar na padta hai” jai and Sameer looked at each other then me as they asked in union

“ Matlab?” I smiled, walking back to my chair.

“ Matlab, vo purane paane kabhi band nahi huye the. Sab bus bhool gaye hai.

sab kuch hamare aankhon samne hai bus hum dekh nahi pare hai, sab kuch mere samne hai phir bhi kuch nahi dikh raha” i singed as I sat on my chair.