CHAPTER 18:(Love in Air)
Ruquaiyya shouted jalals name and woke up from her dream...she was sweating profusely...
hoshiyyar came running inside her hojra and got her a glass of water and made her relax...
Hoshiyaar asked her
"begum sahiba did you see some bad dream, it may come true as its early morning.."
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The Rajvanshis force were together now, the whole Rajputana land stood together to fight against Jalaluddin Mohammed, the situation in Amer was going out of Raja Bharmals hand, he could not stop his son Bagwant Das to fight against Jalal, but Bagwant Das opposed his father and never thought of the consequences of the war...
Sujamal and suryabhaan took help form SD and AK this was opposed by Rajvanshis but they needed their help to defeat jalal, in the meantime SD and AK wanted to finish Jalal either with the help of Rajvanshis and in meantime wanted to show the sultanate that even in case of Jalals death, they both will remain as saviours of sultanate...
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Jalal called all the mughals subedaars whom he trusted from all over the hindustan and had got information against Rajvanshis that they are here to attack Agra any time...but he dint get any information against Amerians yet...
Jalal gave Atgah khan a signal to start attacking the Rajvanshis land one by one...
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the paigaam reached Agra, Maham read the paigam to Jalal...
Jalal reached her hojra, who was busy praying to her kanha...
"jodha begum, aapki amer se paigaam aaya hai, that your daadisa is not well and wanna meet you and Maan singh, i have already arranged for your journey you can leave for Amer tomorrow..."
she called out his name hesitantly
"yes Jodha begum, do you wanna speak anything with me"
she lowered her eyes...Jalal always loved his shy bride...
"the thing is...i wanna say "
"jodha begum i have much work today in DEk, pls tell soon, and if you still wanna speak than i will come in night to your room"
"no shehensha, nothing important, before going back to Amer"
"what Jodha begum before going to amer what"
"shehensha can you have lunch with me in afternoon, promise i will cook well"
"okie jodha begum, its my pleasure to eat food cooked by Rajvanshi begum, but i thought that you have made up your mind to give me salim..."
Jodha looked in to his eyes, and he looked in to her deer eyes,,...he smirked at her and took her leave to DEK
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😆 Moti bai could not stop herself from laughing...seeing Jodha busy in kitchen...
Reva and Moti helped her in cooking food...the news of Jodha cooking food in Kitchen reached harem...all the bandis, begumaien were discussing that...now Jodha wants to find jalals heart, so she has choosen a way to reach his heart through his stomach...
Resham heard the news and told it to maham...
maham immediately reached Ruquaiyyas hojra and informed the same...
Ruquaiyya burned in her jealousy,...
Jodha waited for Jalal for lunch...and heard foot steps and turned back to see Ruquaiyya begum along with Hoshiyyar...
Ruquaiyya fumed in anger...
"Jodha begum, how dare you..how could you think of snatching jalal from me...i will never let you do this.."
"Ruquaiyya begum, i cant snatch shehensha from you in my dream too...tomorrow i am going to Amer, and i wanted to cook food for him in my hand...as he has done so much for me and my Amer..."
"shut up you liar, i cant believe a Rajvanshi women, you ppl are not trust worthy...first you opposed to marry jalal, and married him in return of Amer, now you want him to eat your cooked food, i know the reason, you wanna kill Jalal, you have come here with some plan to finish jalal, you wanna take revenge on mughals..."
"ruquaiyya begum, i know i hated shehensha once, but now he is my husband and its my kartavya to safeguard his life, and i will fulfill the duties of wife to him untill i breath my last.."
"stop it Jodha begum, you gonna fulfill duties of a wife... first of all you dont consider him as your shohar, you have not even let him touch your body till now, and see who is talking about fulfilling the duty of a wife... you dont even trust him and you expect me to trust you... i will never unless i throw you and your Rajvanshis relatives out of this Agra i wont sleep peacefully."
Meanwhile Jalal entered Jodhas hojra where Ruquaiyya and Jodha were talking...he heard what did Ruquaiyya spoke to Jalal...he was angry on Ruquaiyaa for the first time..
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"'Ruquaiyya begum stop it... i dont want to listen anything against Jodha begum, its none of your buisiness to interfere in between me and Jodha begum, even she is my legally wedded wife like you...i want you to leave this hojra immediately:"
"jalal you are asking me to leave this hojra for this women who till today not fulfilled a single duty of a wife..."
"Ruquaiyya leave now or else you will see the bad side of me..."
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Jodha had confused look and had tears rolling down her cheeks...
"Jodha begum, may be i wont be able to eat lunch today since my tummy is filled...hope you wont mind"
"jee shehensha i cant understand.."
"jodha begum wipe your tears, i dont like my begums in tears"
Jodha wiped her tears and did pranaam to him
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Moti who has witnessed this came to Jodha
"Jodha shehensha is not that bad, he cares for you a lot, see its being nearly 6 months you are married to him, but he never forced you nor disrespected you, and he stood for you infront of Ruquaiyya begum, i think shehensha loves you..."
"moti i dont know whether he loves me or not, but i respect him a lot...i dont know why it is...tomorrow i am going back to amer, but my heart is saying not to leave shehensha alone here"
"jodha may be you started loving shehensha"
"moti tum bhi na kuch bhi kehthi ho.."
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Bagwant Das waiting for Jodha and Mansinghs safer return from Agra...Rani Mainavathi was more worried for Jodhas future...
she tried to convince Bagwant Das but he was admnanat...
here the war plan was ready Surya bhan and sujamal had a back up plan, Rana pratap had planned to attack jalal on the coming two days...
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here in Agra SD and AK had secretly kept spys near jalal and Atgha khan so that they will monitor each and every action of them, meanwhile sent a army support to Rajvanshis...
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Jodha could not sleep peacefully in her hojra, she just walked to garden area...and sat seeing the sky...Jalal came out of hojra and saw Jodha sitting all alone...he came down to talk to her...
"jodha begum, you here all alone what happened i can see you are worried"
"no shehensha nothing like that i was worried for Dadisa thats it so was not getting sleep"
"jodha begum i am sorry i could not eat the lunch with you..."
"its fine shehensha i can understand it"
"jodha begum, Ruquaiyya is my best friend we have grown up together, she dont like any women near me other than her"
'shehensha i just wanted to eat lunch with you thats it, how will i make Ruquaiyya begum understand that i will never snatch you from her not in my dream too.."
"jodha begum may be you have forgotten that you will be my childs mother as predicted"
"shehensha, i will be a loyal wife to you always but i will never be your childs mother.."
"jodha begum, when i see your eyes i feel that you are lying..."
"there is no need for me to lie"
"Jodha begum than why did you cook lunch for me, as soon as you heard that you will be going to Amer, i can see some sadness a baichaini in your eyes, which means you dont wanna leave Agra, which means you love me..."
"No shehensha you are getting me wrong yes i feeling something from inside but i dont know why..actaully i should feel happy that i will be out of Agra for sometime, may be since Daadisa is not well"
"jodha begum you are lying :"
"shehensha, tell me one thing can you love me, more than Ruquaiyya begum:"
"you better dont ask me that question jodha begum i dont have heart i dont love any women not even Ruquaiya"
"but shehensha, than why are you expecting me to love you and fulfill the wish of becoming father"
"because you are my begum its your duty..."
"i know its a duty of a wife to give birth to a child, but i want my husband to love me, and want my child to be symbol of our love... "
Shehensha i wanna take your leave now...
"jodha begum i dont have heart, i cant love you, never..."
he pulled her close to him and held her tightly near her waist...
"shehensha what are you doing, some one will come what they will think"
"we are married jodha begum, no one will question a shehensha and his wife...and i wanna show you that without love too a women can give birth to my child..."
Jalal tighened his grip on her more... he lifted her and walked towards her hojra...
jodha was scared little bit, but she had full confidence that jalal wont do anything on her forcefully as she knew him from so many days...they both had an eye lock jodha was lost in his eyes...
he took inside her room and made her lie on the bed and he too balnced on bed next to her..one hand beneath her neck one hand holding her waist...and continued to look in each others eye for a long time...
Moti entered the entrance and saw them both in awkward position lost in each others eyes...
moti without making any noise closed the curtains of the hojra and stood outside the room waiting for shehensha to come out...
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Maham was happy that Jalal carried jodha inside her hojra and came to know that Ruquaiyya had show down with jalal in afternoon because of jodha begum,...and now her plan of Vanishing Rajvanshis land had come to force...
she wanted Adham khan to win trust of jalal by defeating Rajvanshis in the war and wanted to win awaams trust and than wanted to use SD and wanted to tag SD in case of jalals death and create a situation such that... after jalals death she wanted Ruquaiyya sultana to marry Adham Khan so that adaham khan will be accepted as badshah of hindustan..since Adham khan was a son of bandhi accepting him as a king was a question mark...
but accepting husband of ruquaiyya as badshah was cake walk for adham to be king...
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they both were lost in each others eyes and jalal proceeded towards jodhas lips...jodha dint show any opposition...his lips proceeded towards hers...he softly pressed his lips against hers...he pressed it harder...she slowly responded to him...and welcomed his kiss..his tongue wanted to play with her lips...he removed his hands from her waist..and held her chins... and touched her lips and made her open her mouth ..he tasted her juicy lips... and he still deepened his kiss...it was first time for her... the pressure of passion was building in each others eyes...
his tongue played with hers...
Jalal now got on top of her without breaking the kiss... and put his legs on hers...held her hands both tightly by his...he pinned her against the bed... and started pressing her hands with force...
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Moti was guarding the room, meanwhile Reva called moti to have dinner as she had not still...she just went to Reva little bit far away from door of hojra and was telling her jodha is with shehensha inside and is standing to guard at doors...
meanwhile Rahim went running inside the room and while running he mde the vase kept on the entrance of the room fall...
Moti saw Rahim running inside the room...her heart skipped for a moment...and her eyes popped out...and both Reva and moti shouted...
"Rahim, rukh jayiye, andhar math bagiye.."
Jalal heard it and stopped his kissing and both jodha and jalal became alert ...and got up...Jodha sat on bed heavy breathing meanwhile Jalal noticed that Rahim is not inside yet they were too quick in breaking the kiss before Rahim entered...
Rahim came running inside and saw jalal standing...
"salaam shehensha..."
Jalal could not be angry on Rahim, who disturbed the most romantic moments of him with his begum,,,
he smiled at Rahim...
"shabba khair rahim, aap kahani suniye hum chalthe hai..."
jalal just looked at jodha whose hairs had become messy...and was looking scared little bit and she was looking confused as she dint know what has transformed her to kiss jalal and respond to him...
Jalal smirked at her and left her hojra...
He came out of her hojra and saw Moti bai and reva who were standing with heads bend down...but jalal was not angry with them as he was happy that his nakhchadi begum finally accepted him as her husband...
later inside room...jodha made her pallu proper and wiped her lips with her hands as the lips had beocme wet because of jalal.. she tried to correct her long hairs which were looking messy...
Rahim saw that his ammi jaan is not paying any attention to him
"ammi jaan what happend dont you tell me any stories..."
meanwhile Moti came inside and saw rahim asking jodha questions but jodha was not answering him anything as she had not come out of the shock that she was lost in his embrace...
"Rahim, jodha begum is not well she need rest today ..come tomorrow, now go and sleep with saleema begum..."she called reva who took rahim with her...
Rahim seemed not happy that he could not hear jodas stories tonight...
"jodha please forgive me, i could not come to know when Rahim came running inside i tried to stop him but,...i know shehensha must be angry on us, i was scared that he will kill me for not guarding the room, but he spared us today:"
jodha dint answer anything...
jodha asked moti to leave her alone and slept on the bed...
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jalal reached his hojra and cursed his luck that his beautiful night with his new begum could not be completed ..he went near the mirror and touched his lips...and looked at some hair strands on his jaama, which werre obviously jodhas ...he smiled thinking of his time with jodha and spoke to himself
"i promise jodha begum once you are back from amer i will make that night memorable one...there wont be anyone to disturb us...
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It was morning jodha did her kanha aarti reahced HB room and took her blessings, and wished all the begums and took permission of maham and jalal came to leave her near the gate...he held her hands tightly and made her sit in palkaein...and pressed her fingers tightly and smirked at her...once she sat inside the palkain the gulaams picked it up...jalal peeped inside her palkain ..and spoke to her...
"jodha begum, jo kaam kal adoori reh gayi, hum aapki wapasi ke baad poora karenge...adaab"
he smiled at her...
Jodha just lowered her gaze...
Maansingh was on his horse...
Jodha finally left to Amer...
Jodha was not feeling good leaving Agra... even jalal was not happy...he again turned back to see Jodhas palkain disappearing from his gaze
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Here Munim khan had attacked a local Rajvanshis land and mughals and rajvanhis had a fight at last mughals won the land...
the mughals started executing the plan before Rajvanshis could think of...
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RECAP: it was death of enemy...
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