FF: Royal Pain Season 2: link pg 140 - Page 56

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Chapter 9

Now We're Getting There

"Goddamn you're beautiful", he tiptoed behind her right when she was ready to her eye liner. You know what that means: an angry woman.

"I was blind but now, I can see", he held her by the waist waiting for her to calm down.

"Well I can't because clearly his majesty was too inconsiderate to wait for the queen to finish her makeup. Now the ink is my eye. Look what you've done".

She forced open her red eye and flashed it dangerously closed to his face.

"I love you", the King the blew his warm breath near her hoping to get out of this grave trouble he had unknowingly stepped in.

"Yeah, yeah. Let me splash some water on this mess. So much for early rising".

With those words, Madhubala also splashed water all over our King's bubbling desires.

"I love you as well. Perhaps a little more than you. Afterall, I did you save you from dying twice", she pulled on his fingers as he prepared to walk away with shattered hopes.

"You are never going to let that go, are you?" He smiled as the realization dawned on him: the feelings were mutual.

"Not in this lifetime, no sir".

"Did you love me then?"

This was a question she had no answer to. Did she love him then? If yes, that would mean she had loved him all his life. That is what she was taught anyways.

"You shall marry the crown prince one day", her mother would serve up the same sermon along with the night's meal.

"Stop filling her head with propaganda Padmini. There is no way I am letting my daughter anywhere near that hen house".

"Rehne do Malik. My Madhu will be the queen, you just wait and watch".

(Leave it alone Malik).

"I wish you would stop kissing up to that naagin. She will take the monarch down. Mark my words".

"Vazeer saheb aapki biwi shaatir dimag hai, I will never let the queen walk all over me".

(Mr. Prime Minister, your wife is a clever one).

She witnessed the same conversation take place in the family dining room for five years until one day when mum did not show up to dinner. Seventy two hours of rescue operations later, the dreaded queen made an entrance.

"Padmini knew too much for my liking. She had to go", the woman snaked her arm around Malik's shoulders. "Give my regards to your hopeful little daughter. The queen? In her dead mother's dreams", she scoffed.

Madhubala watched her father transform from a loving family man to a devoted follower of the king. He caped her behind closed doors, hidden from the scorching eyes of the witch who killed her mother.

Little Madhu would lock herself up in the attic and for hours on end, watch recordings of her mother training her how to become the perfect queen. She learned her table manners, her dressing sense, the makeup expertise: all from unsupervised video viewing. Of course, with time, her priorities shifted. She became her brother's primary caretaker and the carrier of her father's political legacy. She was destined to serve as the king's right hand woman; if not as the queen then, as the Prime Minister. Her first meeting with the crown prince was not to please his masculine sensibilities. Rather, to impress a future employer. She had even served her teenage brother a good lecture on making her miss out on the rare chance of governing the nation.

"Thanks to you, the new king will get a moronic idiot to order around. That Sikander is good for nothing. You know it, I know it, we all know it Kesh".

"You might want to look behind you", Kesh used his all too infamous line.

"Did you just call my son a bum?" The demonic woman from her mother's funeral was back.

Madhu immediately knelt down like her father had taught her to perfection.

"I apologize for my rude slip of tongue. This will never happen again. I shall happily accept your majesty's punishment".

That is when her dignity was burned with hot wet along with her flesh melting away from the queen's cruelty.

"This is your punishment for life. You will amount to nothing. Your career as a queen hopeful is over before it began Madhu Bala".

She would never see this proud woman again until today. How could Madhu answer such a complicated question asked by her husband? She had hated him as much as she had dreamed of a life with him. She didn't know how she felt until now. And that was all that mattered. However, that was not what she told him.

"I love you now and I loved you then. I just didn't know it yet".

What she did tell him was her mother's tragic ending, the queen's notorious confrontation and their shared pains. Together the royal couple set on a journey to right all the wrongs of their genetic past.

Originally posted by: mytinypaintings

this is getting interestin and even more beautiful...now I want to trample that queen under my foot...😡

Originally posted by: mytinypaintings

I was here even before you sent out the PM...have I become a stalker or what

Originally posted by: DonnaHarvey

fine I missed you. are you happy now?😡

Wheee! Very much! Btw I missed you too. I was waiting till I get happy to read stories. I was grumpy and sad. I don't read stories when I'm in a bad mood. Sorry all right? Huggles to you! 🤗

K. clearly my head was somewhere else😆

Oh control it! 🤔 You drink too much!

Originally posted by: RuthlessQueen

Wheee! Very much! Btw I missed you too. I was waiting till I get happy to read stories. I was grumpy and sad. I don't read stories when I'm in a bad mood. Sorry all right? Huggles to you! 🤗

Excuses, excuses

Oh control it! 🤔 You drink too much!