Vaidharbhi...

I was out of words. He said i am the queen to the desham and not just a small rajyam but to the biggest in the prithvi Darmadesham. I was still standing in the midst of the people who i think are the important people of the pradesh. I saw Mukundh who was looking nothing but to me. His eyes are showering with the love which i wanted to drown for ever. 

"How can i be the rani ?? I know nothing Mukun...  Maharaj..." i said but he never let me complete. "I dont want to be the maharani for the entire kingdom..." he said and i felt a heavy weight from my shoulder has been lifted. He looked at me and continued. I was too mesmerised in his peacock neck coloured eyes i didn't understand what he said the next. 

"I want to just rule me the way you always used to do, i will take care of the other things. I want you to be with me the way you used to be. Just the way you were with me back in your father's house. The way we used to be together. The only difference there and here are just you have big rooms not the one they used to be other than that there is nothing different here. Your Rama anna is here with you the same one and the same stupider..." he said making Rama give a small push from the back making me sniff a laugh. 

Pushing Mukundh Rama anna stood in front of me. "Little one i have no one in the name of my sister. The one here in the name of my brother is taking my life so will you please save me from this idiot brother of mine ??" he asked me in a pleading eyes where his amber eyes were begging for me to save him. I laughed at him. He was literally begging for me to save him from his own raja but not just a some small raja the maharaj of Darmadesham. I nodded my head with the ever lasting smile on my lips. He sighed and pulled me in to his hug. I felt home in my brother. \

"I missed you little one. I missed you every breathe i took. I thought i would never be able to feel the love i felt for you, i missed my sister around who would always be of my savior rather than one irritating annoying rakshas brother of mine and the worst my maharaj who does nothing other than ordering your brother. You will be my side and let us team you to make him run on his toes..." he said making me laugh all the way. 

"Well i am here only dont think you can complain to her. I can hear you." Mukundh said which made me to laugh more. I couldn't take it any more. I clutched my stomach and laughed for so long. I couldn't control. It is really good to have a family who would do anything for you and here i am blessed to have a brother who would do anything for me and the one i will spend my life with him will bring the chandra deva (moon) to my chamber. 

"So maharani !! will you rule me ?? i want you to do just that." he asked me and smiled at him giving a small nod. "You will always be with me right ??" i asked him in a small voice. He smiled and held my hand tight and saw my athma (soul) and said "until yamaraj (the god of death) is going to come for me i will be with you. I promise you that." I ran to him and hugged him tight. 

" I will never let yamaraj to take you away..." i mumbled. "Yeah only she has the right to take your life." came a voice. I pouted. It was my sister. Sangamitra. 

"You would never give me even a small appreciation will you ??" i asked her. She shrugged her shoulder and said "sibings are always are there to humiliate each other and i am doing my job.." 

I felt as if someone watching and i turned i saw my appa and amma looking at me with a smile which i never seen before. It is as if they are looking at me and i now feel i am back to the place where i rightfully belong.

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I was in the dark. The chamber where i am now is actually surrounded with darkness. There was a small lamp which was held by my light. He smiled at me while bringing the small oil lamp. I smiled back at him. He is here and suddenly a tug in my skirt made me realise that my vamsi is here as well. Giggling i picked him up in my arms and placed him on the silk netted bed. The other side of the bed had a moment. I saw that Mukundh has lighted the entire chamber of mine with the oil lamps and it was illuminating with its full prakasha. (brightness). It was not dark any more but this little prakasham from the lamp gave me a soothing feeling. 

"Maharani..." he bowed his head making me giggle again. He is behaving the same way he did back in my home. I smiled at him and was caressing Vamsi to sleep. There was a small cute sound from Vamsi which made me realise that my little son is in deep sleep. An ever lasting smile was tugging Mukundh which made me smile looking at him. What should i call him now. Soon i will be his pathni i cannot call him by his name that is something no woman would do. But i cannot call him swamy i fear even thinking of saying that word which i used to say when i was been sold. Pathi ?  no everyone knows he is my pathi. So what name should i need to use. 

I was in deep thought but i failed to notice that my priya Mukundh was resting his head on my lap. I smiled and caressed his hair now. His hair were even more longer than they were back then. No one spoke but that was something which was really needed now.

Silence. 

It was peaceful. After months i felt this heart content. I felt peace i felt i was where i should be. True to the words i am not maharani for this desam but i am just Mukundh's Vaidharbhi. I slowly realised my cloths are becoming a bit chilly that too something is dripping in my lap. A small gasp escaped from my mouth. My Mukundh is been crying for this long time silently.

"Hey mahadev..." i exclaimed and pulled his chin to look at me. Placing both my hands around his cheeks i made him to see me. His ever loving peacock neck blue eyes were now mixed with the swamp of tears of pain. I am here now. Why is he crying. 

"What happened Maharaj ??" i asked in a small voice. His eyes snapped at me and they had fire in them when the words left my lips. "To the prithvi (world) i am maharaj but to you my priye i am always Mukundh, your mukundh. Even after our wedding you should call me Mukundh not Maharaj or not Abhyankara. It is always Mukundh to you and i shall prefer them to stay the same way it was now. I nodded my head after listening to his one minute speech. 

"Now say me why were you crying." I asked wiping the tears which were absent mindedly leaking from his beautiful eyes. He blinked few times and cleared his throat. I slightly bend away from him to get some water which was a hand away distant from me. "No..." he yelled made me jerk in my place. "Don't leave me i don't want water. I want you priye." he spoke in his broken words. 

"After i came back to find you and when i heard that you went missing i lost it Vaidharbhi. I felt as if it was my fault that you were taken away from me. I searched for you for so long so many places but i couldn't find anyone in the name of Vaidharbhi..." he broke down and cried hard. I held him tight to me. It is his time to let go of all his pain. He spoke spoke and spoke everything which he had been carrying for so many months. I was crying silently listening to his pain. He was equally in pain as i was. 

"How could find me when i changed my name to ponni." i asked him looking at his now tear pooled eyes.

"Ponni ??" he asked me in disbelief. I nodded my head and said wiping his tears while his large warm hands were wiping mine. Smiling humorlessly i said "yes i named myself as ponni. " Even before he could ask why which i know he would i said "Vaidharbhi is the name which was given to me by my family and it would be known only to them. I don't want anyone to know who i was. But some how i had the hope that you will find me but it turned to be the ring made us together." I chuckled thinking how i was been dragged on the streets for theft which i never did in the first place. I want this to end. But will he listen to me ? He is maharaj not my Mukundh. I wanted to say this to him but i was yet again scared what he will say. So i bend down my head not making my face visible to him. But whom am i fooling ?? He reads me like an open book. 

"What is that my Maharani wants to say but gulping her words inside her throat ??" he asked me making me irritated. He knows me little too too much. I huffed and pressed my lips to a thin line making him chuckle. I smiled at that. I missed this. 

"Um.. Mukundh !?" i called him in a doubtful voice. "Yes priye..." he said encouragingly. 

Here in this pradesh there are many people who have been stuck in the name of dass and dasies (slaves masculine and feminine) I want that to end. They can be sevaks (servants) but not as dass and dasies. It is as if their lives are been always under someone's feet. Will... will you make sure that they all are safe and away from the naragam which they are now. Some are really good but many are really bad when they treat us..." i said making him sit on the bed. 

"First you are no more that" he said indicating i am not anymore of dasi which was few days before. He is not even using that word. I smiled and nodded my head. "And as you said i will make sure that this is been taken away from our pradhesh. As this is your first command i shall do it immediately." With that he stood up and gave me his hand. I looked at him in confusion. 

"Come let us do this immediately. Guide me..." he said making me smile in pride. I nodded my head and held his hand. Walking together gave me a sense of confidence. I felt powerful with him. I felt complete with him and i felt i am his queen when i am with him. 

With a determination to be with him i held his hand tight and as he said always look straight hold your head high i held my head high and smiled at him. He nodded his head and so did i. 

With the holding hands we walked to set things right in this desam. The desam which is ruled by Maharaj Abhayankara and the one where myself and my Mukundh lives. 

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Hello all... Am alive and back to business. Yup i am back. And here is the final chapter of book....

Kidding guys... 

We still need to see their wedding and their their kids. And one more news is that the kids are gonna rule the next book. I will make sure it is a stand alone but yeah we will see our favorite four as well there but more fun when Abhaya and Vaidharbhi's child takes the throne. The next generation of people and the problems which they will see...

So in a determination to finish this book and write that as well i am going to be back on track. The way it was once a week the book would be updated. The new book will be coming to life soon. 

So until next update which i promise next week...

Your love...

Shri...