*Alastair Pov*

I walked outside my Chamber to put the dishes away and saw Tina lurking around the corridor with a stress expression making me frown.

"What is it?" I questioned her unexpectedly to which she got a little startled but composed herself.

"It is nothing, Your highness." She replied looking down.

"It is ok! You can tell me your problem." I assured her.

"My Mother took ill today afternoon and I just got to know about it few moments back through a guard." She mumbled.

"I am sorry to hear that. Why don't you leave and be with her?" I questioned her frowning.

"I want to! After a few moments I have to go inside to help her highness and leave taking her permission." She replied glancing at Bhairavi's chamber door.

"Do not worry about that. I will inform her and you should leave this moment before it gets more dark which would be not good for you." I assured her to which she left reluctantly.

I walked downstairs to put the dinner dishes away, ignoring the protests from few maids and returned to my chamber only to hear Bhairavi calling for Tina.

Then I remember that I need to tell her about Tina leaving for a few days and rushed inside her Chamber to see it empty, but I can hear her callings coming from the bathing area.

I stepped inside to inform her about Tina but only stooped seeing her lying in the tub with her eyes closed. I cannot look away even though her body is covered with the water from the neck.

"Where were you Tina? I have been calling for you. I am a little bit tired, so can you add few oils into the water?" She requested without opening her eyes.

I contemplated for a few moments and did as she requested to before standing little away from the tub. She slowly put her hands outside and frowned.

"Can you give that brush to me? I am feeling a little itch on my back." She requested and forwarded her hand.

I took one from the table and placed it on her hand, but my leg slipped making the brush fall into the water and her eyes opened with a frown only to widen with shock.

"What are you doing here?" She questioned after coming out of shock.

"I... Tina's mother took to illness so she left for a few days and I am here to inform you that." I replied staring at her face.

"Oh! I hope she will be fine and Tina will be strong." She whispered sighing, but moved little away pushing her legs to her chest.

"I already saw you so many times. So, you need not hide like that." I whispered teasingly.

"Walk away right this moment." She mumbled frowning at me.

"Why? I would love to assist you with any help." I mumbled stepping near to her and put the hand inside the tub making her shriek a little.

"Brush!" I replied, pulling it out.

"Thanks!" she whispered forwarding a hand.

"Turn around!" I mumbled kneeling a little.

"What?" She questioned frowning.

"Turn around!" I replied with a stern look and she did after moving her hair away.

I started brushing her back, making her chuckle in between and she slowly said "You need not do this. I can do it on my own like all the time."

"Let me be here to help until she returns." I offered in the smallest sense but stated in large sense.

"My Maid do not do all these things. She just passes the things and today I forgot to take them with me." She mumbled.

"A maid do not do all these things, but a Slave will do right?" I questioned after finishing her back.

"Slave? You? For me?" She questioned blinking at me.

"Yes! So it is decided that I will be your slave until she returns and if you like me by that time, then we will extend the time." I replied in a serious tone before brushing her arm.

"Let me atleast take a bath by myself." She whispered, feeling awkward with all these.

"No! You cannot stop me from these duties." I uttered smirking at her.

"Husbands do not assist the wives. I have never heard it from anyone." She mumbled frowning.

"I never thought you were the type to say those things, Bhairavi. You are a big change for the ever going traditions. So why not let this be a new change, but we will keep it between four walls like many must have done." I uttered staring at her and she stared at me in shock.

"You are giving me one after the other shocks with your words and actions." She whispered before offering her other arm and put her legs outside making water fall on my apparel.

After brushing her legs with the brush, she took the brush away asking me to leave as she can do the remaining. I walked out to see a cloth which is used to cover the body and stepped inside holding it as there is nothing in the bathing area.

When I entered I saw her stepping out of the tub and glanced up only to get startled and was about to fall back but I held her hand passing the cloth.

"Why are you scaring me these many times?" She questioned after covering her body with the cloth.

"I need to wear my apparel so you may leave my chamber." She mumbled staring at everywhere except my face.

"No! I will be assisting you even in that." I mumbled, walking outside to take out her apparel as Tina didn't and she followed me.

"Do not touch them." She squealed when I held her chemises in my hands, and she pushed them back into the racks.

I turned to see her breathing away from rushing behind me and with irritation at me. I tried until this moment to not look at anywhere except her face, but now I couldn't anymore.

I glanced at her from the face to toes and to her face with which she started squirming with gulping a little. Moving my hand a little I placed it over her face and waited for her to push me away.

When she didn't, I leaned down and pressed my lips to hers, kissing her slowly with a feel of having all the time in the world waiting for her reactions.

She encircled her arms around my neck slowly after which I increased the slow kiss into a passionate one making her clutch my hair with her fingers.

I pressed my hand all over her back moving them away from her face and pushed her to the wall slowly before tracing the lips to her jaw and then to the neck and all the while she didn't leave my hair.

Pestering the kisses to her bare shoulder I moved them more and kissed at the bulge from the bossom exposed from the cloth. She started tugging my tunic and I helped her removing it.

I pulled my lips away and asked "Do you want this?"

"Yes!" She replied in an out of breath way.

"Are you sure?" I questioned again.

"As my slave you need to take care of my needs." She replied getting vexed with my questions.

I chuckled and pushed her near to the bed and made her lay on it before slowly removing the cloth from her flesh while she stared at my face without blinking.

"I love you!" I whispered laying over her after removing my breeches.

"I love you too." She whispered and I stilled while kissing her after hearing her words.

"You do?" I asked in surprise tone.

"What do you think?" She questioned back, pulling my head back to her kissing me.

"You do!" I stated in a whisper before kissing her back.

*Bhairavi Pov*

I opened my eyes blinking a little feeling the sun beams and turned to see Alastair sleeping soundly with his arm around me.

I smiled pecking his lips before removing his hand and moved away from the bed and walked inside the bathing area.

Walking outside the area I saw that he is waiting for me to come. I smiled at him and started walking near to the racks for the apparel, but he stopped holding my hand.

"I already got them outside. Now let me help you in wearing it." He uttered gesturing the clothes on the bed.

"Tina only tightens the strings for the chemise. I wear it by myself inside the bathing area." I pointed out.

"We already cleared that I am not your maid and just your slave. Now be quiet and let me do the work." He uttered removing the cloth around me like it didn't matter me being bare before him and he wearing just breeches.

He made me wear it with his assistance and tied the strings pulling them not tightly as I asked saying I need to let the skin be free for my comfortness.

After getting me to wear whole apparel with his assistance, he walked to his chamber to get ready and ordered me to not leave the chamber. He is very bad at this! I thought, chuckling and started removing my apparel's from the racks and walked inside his chamber before placing them in an empty rack.

I need to get two more here for all my apparel's but for now these are sufficient. After that I got my other things and waited for him inside his or our Chamber.

"I thought I asked you to stay in yours." He mumbled when he stepped out.

"I thought slaves do not get to choose to order." I retorted to which he chuckled and stopped seeing the changes I made by placing my things in the chamber.

"I do not want to shout for you everytime I need help with so I decided to shift to this Chamber." I uttered smiling at him.

"We can lock that chamber?" He asked, gesturing to my former one.

"No! If you do any stupid thing, then I will stay there." I replied smiling back.

"What are we going to do now?" I questioned him.

"I will ask for the food and feed you with my hands." He replied.

"I would never get a better one for this work than you." I mumbled faking the wonderness on my face making him glare at me.

"Why did she return?" Alastair complained after a week time.

"Her mother is fine now." I replied, snuggling more into his warmth.

"But I miss being your slave." He whined with humor and I chuckled shaking my head.

"I know! You had such an experience being one." I whispered near his ear.

"Yes!" he whispered, still not liking that Tina returned and drifted off into sleep in our chamber.

"This is the first wedding ceremony we are doing. I am terrified by the thought of being undeservable for doing this." I whispered to Alastair smiling at the people of Nadir.

"You are a Queen and the ruler. And you are a loving person which makes you more than deservable." He whispered back, making me smile staring at his face.

We have concealed together in every way before past two months, but each day he makes me smile and says something which would make my heart flutter each time.

"I love you!" I whispered and turned to see Colton and Jacey walking near to us.

"Before this I would like to say something." Alastair uttered stopping me for starting the ceremony.

"From this moment a marriage will not be cancelled with just the words to each other or by a single party. They should place their situation before both of us or the minister and get the permission from them." He ordered making everyone go into silence.

After few moments everyone accepted nodding their heads and I started the ceremony along with him. I smiled at both of them to see the love which is genuine in their eyes.

"I want to go to our Kingdome soon and rest. I am tired more than the limit." I uttered leaning on the rail of the ship.

"Do you trust me?" Alastair asked in a serious tone making me glance at him.

"Yes!" I replied, smiling.

"Let me bind this to your eyes." He mumbled showing a small cloth which is soft and will definitely not hurt my eyes.

After he tied it, I waited for a few moments and frowned. I patted on the railing for his hand, which he offered in a second and asked "We should have reached Agatha by now. Why didn't we? Is Captain not feeling well?"

"Everything is fine and do not worry about a thing." He assured me and I nodded frowning before concentrating on listening to water and his words whispering in my ear.

After so much time I felt the ship stopping and he pulled me with him helping me to climb down from the ship. I can feel the sand before my feet, which is not a surprise as the ship stops near a shore.

"Where are we?" I questioned him still frowning as we continued to walk making the sand go away.

"We are here!" he finally mumbled after some time.

"What is here?" I questioned patting his hand with which he is holding my one hand and the other is around my waist.

"Bhairavi!" he replied, making me frown.

"I know my name." I mumbled frowning more.

"It is not the time for you to show your humorous side, even though I enjoy it, Bhairavi. We are in Bhairavi." He uttered.

"Look who is showing their humorous side. I do not even know what you are saying." I said, getting little irritated with this cloth covering my eyes for such a long time.

He removed the cloth understanding me and I slowly opened my eyes blinking a little to adjust to the light and saw that we are standing at all to familiar land.

"Why are we here?" I questioned him frowning.

"We are in Bhairavi." He replied.

"Where are we in, Alastair? Why are we at old Nadir?" I questioned, turning towards him.

"I won the war over the people who took it into their hands. Because of which the Council gave the land fully to me with no one to protest it." He started saying.

"Ok! That is a good thing." I mumbled.

"Then I thought of renaming it as there is already a place called Nadir which was renamed from Palmer and which was again renamed from some other name." He mumbled.

"What is the name for this land?" I questioned him even though already understanding his words.

"Bhairavi! I named this land as Bhairavi and this will be only ours as a get away whenever we want." He replied.

"Why?" I questioned him trying to push down the happiness.

"This is the place where I behaved wrongly towards you more than once but we also got together on this land. How can we leave this behind? We will make many new memories that will make you forget the bad ones." He explained.

"I love you! This is the best gift anyone has ever given to me. A land named after me? You are the best husband." I mumbled before pressing my lips to his and hugged him tightly.

"I am always the best at everything." He said becoming pompous.

"I have a gift for you and then tell me who is best at giving gifts." I challenged which he took.

"I am with child." I mumbled and he stared at me for a few moments before crushing me in his hug.

"You are right! You have the best gift in this whole world anyone ever could give to me." He uttered hugging me more.

We strolled around the land over the places where so much has happened and he explained that the burnt land is being made good with which the growing can be done soon.

And then he took me to a place where there seems to be a cave where we could stay. Even the warriors who came to our safety can never know about this and they will be staying at the huts he got built around the area where we should stay to protect us.

"Why didn't you show me this before?" I questioned, looking around the cave.

"I wanted to but one after the other some things started happening and then you always distracted me when we were alone." He replied teasingly making me chuckle.

I leaned on his shoulder with his arm around my waist and a smile over my face. I snuggled more into his hold and caressed his hand with mine.

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just an epilogue to go which will be pretty small i guess... as i still need to write it...

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