Heya everyone! Sorry for the lesser interaction. Life has been tough recently. But thankfully, I can write to ease out my worries :):) thank you so much for giving your time and patience to this work of mine. I will ensure that it will turn out to be a masterpiece.

The next day, Aaryawati woke up but Aaryaveer wasn't sleeping beside her. That would rarely happen whenever they shared chamber. He would, like a loving husband stay with her until she would wake up and then they would have typical conversations that every husband- wife would have. Out of curiosity, she headed to Aaryaveer's chamber.

Aaryaveer who was too busy to assemble his army uniform.

"Wh..what happened, Your Majesty?" Something didn't feel right. She could sense that something bad was going to happen.

"I apologise my love, there is an emergency. The King Sanketsingh has sent his army to attack our remote villages. I need to go and check out the destruction by myself." Said Aaryaveer as he hid a small dagger in his pocket. The same dagger that she had gifted him in past.His face looked determined. As if he wanted to end the reign of terror.

She had seen her husband participate the wars many times. However, this time the womanly instincts of Aaryawati weren't helping her. Panic gripped her as her thoughts took the turns into the worst possible outcomes.She loved and cherished her ever-gentle and caring husband. The thought of anything happening to him, made her heart shatter into countless pieces.

She grabbed Aaryaveer by his shoulders and used her strength to pull him to her. She moulded her lips with his. Aaryaveer was shocked by her behaviour. Never before she had initiated such move. Agreed that she loved him and always responded positively to his smallest effort of lovemaking or affection. But she had always been the submissive one. Always knew his moods and behaved according to that.

"Your Highness! This is rare." said Aaryaveer, pleasantly amused despite of the urgency of the situation they were trapped in.

Aaryawati mentally cursed herself for the move but decided that it would be the last time she would get out of her character. She knew that there was tension in the air.

She sucked his lower lip by trapping it between both her lips in a slow delicious and dreamy way while his hands managed to grab her waist, enjoying the delicious sensations that his wife was showering upon him. Things were going well, until she gently bit his upper lip.

"What was that?" Aaryaveer was too amused to continue the kiss. He separated from her as he carefully scanned his wife, who was pink from head to toe. It was the first time in his life he realised that his wife too had some unspoken wild desires which she never dared to speak to him. It only made him sad. She could always tell him whatever she wanted from him, as a wife. And his mind went to the urgency of her tone of the previous night. His exhaustion made him underestimate her desire to be active in social and political life. It made him sadder. He wondered if he could have assured his wife to be more open in front of him. He was always ready to ensure her happiness by fulfilling his desires.

Aaryawati didn't know what to explain. She always wanted to try that with her husband but was taught that "men don't like it when women make the first move... be it on bed or life in general."

"I..." Aaryawati tried to explain her sudden urge to kiss him. Actually, she always wanted to grab him and kiss him in that fashion. It was today when she gathered the courage to do it. She couldn't stop her emotions. After she was certain that maybe it would be the last time she would see her husband. Tears rolled from her eyes.

Aaryaveer put her head on his shoulder and gently whispered into her ears.

"Don't worry my love. I will be back soon. And once I am back, I need to know more about my wife's hidden desires." And he winked.

He gave her a look, stating that the subject was far from over.

She left the room, worried about her husband's fate and then worried, if he guessed her real face.

She decided to go to her In-laws and ask them about the King Sanketsingh. Maybe... maybe she could help her husband.