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?? Shimla Kingdom ??
|THE BHAGYA PALACE|
THE whole family gathered once again in the throne room of the Bhagya Palace, all looking exquisite and good in their royal robes, pertaining to their royal positions.
Rina and Zaina were dressed as a Princess, even though they weren’t one yet.
The King was seated on the throne, and his wife seated beside him, on her own throne as well. Then the others scattered around on the couches in the throne room.
Some dignitaries and Elders In Council were in attendance as well, looking all glamorous.
Guards and maids scattered around, waiting to be called upon whenever their services were needed.
Baby Reyom was with his nanny, they were also present and little Alisha sat close to them, playing with Reyom.
The King was just so happy and elated, he couldn’t ask for more. One big family, wow, it was a great reunion.
He cleared his throat and began to speak, everyone turned to him.
“I’m indeed really happy at this moment, seeing you all as one big family. I can’t ask for more, I’m grateful to my Creator”, he said and they nodded, smiling.
“Although I have been told of the whole lot which happened during the period I was languishing on the hospital bed, and I must say, a lot really happened, and I thank God for everything, it all happened for a reason.
“I have my beloved beautiful wife back to her normal self, I have my beloved sister and her family back as well, I have my children, most especially my son, who just welcomed his first son, my first grandchild, the young Prince Reyom.
“I also have his beloved, his joy and happiness fully here with us, in the person of Rina…”, she turned to Raghav who sat by her side, smiling, and he kissed her.
“… I also have her mother, and her long lost brother, Siddharth. Thank you for saving our young Prince boy, you would ever remain his hero”.
Siddharth smiled and stood up to bow, and then he sat down. The people clapped their hands.
The King continued.
“I have her best friend here, Rina’s best friend, Zaina, together with her fiance, Prince Zashil. Hmm, I just can’t ask for more”, he concluded and a round of applause erupted from the people, they smiled and rejoiced.
The King nodded satisfactorily, smiling. The clap died down and he spoke again.
“I would like to use this opportunity to say a big sorry to Rina and her family, and all so called paupers in this kingdom that have been humiliated.
“With the powers vested on me as the King of this great kingdom, I hereby abolish such practice. Nothing like pauper again in this kingdom”, the people rejoiced and clapped their hands.
“It was because of this evil and unjust practice that Siddharth here, fled his home, and went to find solace in a gang of goons, it is abolished as from today.
He cleared his throat again.
“I would like to invite my son at this juncture, to tell us what he said he has to say”, he said everyone began clapping.
Rina turned to Raghav curiously, what was it he had to say? He ignored her curious looks and got up, then walked over to meet his father on the throne.
He got there and bowed.
“May your days be long on earth Maharajah, and to you too Rani”, he said.
“And to you as well Prince of Shimla”, his father said.
Prince Raghav with his face full of smiles, turned to the people, cheering and clapping. How was he going to begin this speech now? He sighed deeply. The cheering died down and he began.Material © NôvelDrama.Org.
“Well, first and foremost I wanna begin by thanking you all for making it a priority to be here today, I’m grateful. I have just a few things to say and before I start, I would like to call up my woman to join me. Rina?” He called.
What! Rina was gobsmacked. God! She wasn’t used to all these things yet. Anyways, she got up and walked up to him.
As soon as she got to him, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on her lips, everyone cheered and clapped yet again.
It happened so fast that Rina couldn’t even reciprocate. Damn! She really needed to be used to this.
“Well, this my beautiful Rina here, is indeed a blessing to me”, he turned to his parents, “dad, mom. Rina here was the person who saved Prisha, your daughter from her abductor in the woods, years ago”, he dropped the bombshell.
“What!” They exclaimed in unison. A hush fell on the room as everyone kept calm, trying to assimilate the info they just heard.
“She was the one that did what?” King Neel asked.
“Oh my God! She saved my daughter? Holy Moly!” Queen Arya exclaimed.
Rina on her own part was speechless, she wasn’t expecting Raghav to say it at all, at all. She looked at the faces of everyone, they were all surprised.
Her mom, her brother, Zaina, Lady Aarti, the King, the Queen, everyone. Gosh! This was becoming too much.
“Yeah, she did, and her abductor was Amaya mom, your most precious nephew”, he dropped another bombshell.
“Jeez! Holy Moly!” She exclaimed again. She couldn’t believe it, he tried to abduct her daughter, his cousin, for what exactly?
Raghav continued.
“Reason being that he wanted the throne, and wanted to take it from me. He had wanted to use Prisha as bait to get to us, but my beautiful Rina saved her”, he said.
Arya was so moved that she didn’t even know when she stepped down her throne and walked up to Rina, shedding tears of mixed emotions.
She got to her and gave her the biggest hug she had ever had. Rina was shocked.
“Thank you daughter, thank you so much”, she said.
“You… you are welcome Your Grace”, she stuttered.
Then she walked back to her throne and sat. The King on his own part was more than speechless, he was lost for words.
“I am not done yet”, Raghav said and the murmurings and chattering in the room died down.
“Few days after I returned from the States, I visited the Tourist Site together with my personal guard, Zoya. Actually I got a tip off earlier that my BabyAli would be visiting as well, I had wanted to see her, and that’s why I went. I went there disguised.
“We got to a certain place and parked our car and I began looking around for her, only to see her afar off running happily and then she tripped. A girl had tripped her and another girl quickly ran forward to pick her up.
I was marveled and the urge to get down the car and see this lady came, so I did. I waited for Baby Ali to leave, then I got out of the car.
I got to these girls and truly speaking, they were all sweet young girls. I then stopped to ask for directions, and the one who had tripped Baby Ali, began yelling at me and calling me names, together with her friend, the other who had obviously helped Ali when she fell turned to me, and showed interest to help”.
The people began murmuring and chattering. Raghav continued.
“By then I lost interest and asked her not to bother, so I left. As I turned to leave, I tripped myself and I fell. These two rude ladies began laughing and jeering at me. The other lady didn’t, she instead ran up to me and offered me help, then water to wash my hands.
“I could remember vividly the name she called us, I mean the rude lady. She called us paupers”.
“Jeez! Holy Moly!” They began exclaiming.
“That rude lady was Vidya, my supposed betrothed”.
“What!” They exclaimed.
“And that kind hearted lady was Rina, my heartbeat”, he added.
The people were so flabbergasted and dumbfounded, they all exclaimed in amazement. Rina didn’t even know what to do, she just stood, looking gobsmacked. So he still remembered all these.
“Well, for those asking, Rina captured my heart that day, I began looking for her since then. I remembered asking for her name, she couldn’t tell me. She just ran and left, after helping me out”, he said and Rina turned to him, and smiled.
“She captured my heart with her beauties, her innermost beauty and her outer beauty. She is so kindhearted, and this is the kind of person we want as a Queen in this kingdom”, he said and they began nodding their heads in concurrence.
Zaina on her own part was more than surprised, Rina didn’t tell her all these, and so was her mom, Mrs Doween.
Then Raghav turned to his parents.
“So you see mom, Amaya and Davida aren’t the people you think they are, they are devils and deserve to be punished”, he said and Arya shook her head in disappointment.
“As for Vidya and her mom, Amaya’s gang boys, and the goons, they have all been captured and will be handed over to the police, that is all I have got to say. Thank you”, he said and walked out, holding Rina as he went.
The round of applause which followed suit was a deafening one, they cheered and clapped until they got tired.
“Was all that really necessary?” Rina asked as soon as they settled down on the couch.
He smiled.
“Whether it was necessary or not, is not the matter here. This evening, we are having a date, just you and I”, he said.