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Rudra POV

I climbed the horse and was all set to leave. Agastya joined me while I asked Ranvijay to look at the Kingdom when I was out.

We both, with a small convoy of the army started hailing towards the direction of the Pratapgarh.

As soon as we reached the borders of the territory which was all bordered naturally by small hills. We all stopped and I stepped down my horse.

I looked at the army behind my back and asked them to stop too.

"We will stop here,"

I said in my loud voice so that all could hear

They looked at me with surprise and Agastya asked me all of sudden.

"But, Bhai-sa, we are still away,"

He informed and I nodded.

"Yes, I know. But, I will go alone from here,"

I said and his expression changed to worry and fury.

"No, what are you saying?"

He tried to question and I looked at his furrowed eyebrows.

I inhaled a deep breath and looked at him.

"Yes, I will go alone from here and you will all have to wait for me,"

I said with a clear voice and he exhaled with a little frustration.

"YOU ALL WILL WAIT HERE FOR ME UNTIL I COME BACK, UNDERSTAND,"

I asked and he just looked at me with anger but nodded.

"Words, Agastya,"

I said in the loud voice and he frustratingly looked at me and said.

"Yes, Bhai-sa, we will wait here for you until you come back,"

I nodded and climbed my horse again. Looking at them for one last time, I headed forward.

The horse started climbing the hills, the forest started getting dense and the path difficult. The air turned thin and cold as I was riding at the fastest speed possible. There was a whole hurricane of thoughts, guilt and anger on myself bubbling up in me.

A fear was twisting my gut as I was going to face Abhinandan after a long time and there had been a drastic change between us since we last met.

I was riding through the dense forest that would connect me to the territories of Pratapgarh. I had chosen the forest as the roads would take longer than desired.

I was riding so fast and suddenly I felt a sudden shift in the situation. My horse neighed insanely, lifting both his front legs up high in the air and almost falling backwards. My hand tightened on the reins and but the lift was so sudden and high that I lost my balance and fell off the horse with a loud thud and a noise of a bone breaking caught my ear followed by a wave of intense pain in whole of my body, especially my hand. The horse too fell on the ground and my eyes shut for a moment with a sudden pain and a deep cry escaped my mouth.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh,"

And, before I could understand what the hell just happened I saw a lot of soldiers in the maroon coloured dresses showing up. Their hands were holding naked swords and their eyes holding utter hate.

I lifted my hand up to show my surrender. I was riding without any sword just with a knife and there were so many that I could not fight them with just a sword.

"Take him to the Prince,"

A strongly built man with a dark complexion and tall height towered over me and ordered the soldiers behind him.

And, the word 'Prince' he muttered immediately struck my mind with Abhinandan.

I felt a group of them pointing their swords at me and I blinked to understand what the hell was happening.

I stood up despite the fact that my elbow was hurting insanely.

"Who the hell are you?"

I asked and the man just stepped closer pointing his knife right into my chest, piercing it slowly and muttered right at my face.

"Your death,"

I chuckled hearing him and said.

"You came uninvited,"

He pushed the tip of the knife into my chest even more strongly and I inhaled a deep breath to puff out my chest and looked sharply at him.

Taking my hand close to his wrist, I held it tightly and tried to press that pointy end into my chest more. His confidence loosened up a little and he blinked confusingly seeing how I was to hurt myself and was not reacting at all.

"Whoever you are, my death or whatever. Do not mess with me today. I have something important and head back to my wife, understand? We will play this game -- some other day,"

I said and he irritatedly gritted his teeth and looked at his soldiers who might have understood his signal as they started coming closer to me suddenly one of them screamed as he was about to attack with his sharp, naked sword and I immediately reacted by stopping his sword right in the middle by pressing my palm against it and holding it with my fingers tightly.

He looked at me and now they were making me mad.

"Now, you all leav-,"

But, before I could finish, I felt a heavy object against my head and a loud thud and my head immediately started to spin with the pain. Suddenly, everything started fading away and in a matter of few moments, I fell unconscious on the ground.

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My head was hurting as I inhaled a deep breath only to realise that my head was hurting insanely. With the darkness all around me, I tried to bring my head close to my head but it felt bound and caged.

"Arrrghhhhhh,"

I cried with the pain.

And, as soon as I managed to gain my consciousness back and tried to open my eyes. I noticed the darkness, the painful silence, a kind of warmness not healthy at all and my body was sweating.

As I lifted my lashes a sharp ray of light pierced my eyes and immediately made me whimper in the pain.

Where the hell was I?

I tried to open my eyes again and looked at my hands each tied with a thick rope on either side of the bricky room to the iron handle hanging on the walls.

I tried to rake my eyes around but could not find anything.

And, suddenly my ear heard the slightly faded noise of footsteps approaching. I tried to turn my head only to realise that it was not a random room but a room in the dungeon. Dusty floor, insects, spider webs and mosquitoes were everywhere. And, I was locked.

The footsteps stopped and I could hear the rustling of iron chains and then the door opening.

I inhaled a deep breath and looked at the same person I met in the middle of the forest.

"Seems like I am kidnapped?"

I said with a chuckle and his irritation intensified.

He walked closer to me and held my hair in his fisting, twisting my head insanely while gritting his teeth.

"You are alive just because the Prince wants to kill you by his own hands,"

I chuckled and laughed a little.

"Your PRINCE -- definitely is a coward. Do you even know who am I?"

I said with a smile and he grinned lifting his eyebrows.

"Of course, a bastard son of a sex-worker,"

And, this was it, his words sent a wave of anger all over my body. 

But, wait.

How did he know?

That could only mean one thing.

Surgami Dev Singh.

And, instead of killing him, I chuckled.

"Ahh, yes, that I am,"

And, his irritation increased and he punched my face.

 A group of soldiers came in running and he asked them.

"Open his chains to let the Prince slaughter his skin out of his bones,"

I inhaled a deep breath and waited for the soldiers to open my chains. They kept the sword right at my face, around my neck, at my chest and in every place possible where the death would be near.

"Come with us,"

He said and I rolled my eyes to follow him. My hand was hurting feeling the weight of the strong chains hanging to my wrists.

My eyes scanned all the way through the small gallery of the dungeon and the way to the exit.

The sun rays fell on my eyes as I raked my eyes all around to the abandoned Castle and the labourers working on its rebuilding.

"By the way what you did do to the Prince that he wants to kill you so desperately?"

The man with the horrible face and I exhaled deeply.

"That depends on who is your Prince?"

I said and he rolled his eyes at me.

"Keep your attitude low, Boy,"

He said and I chuckled.

"I am not a boy like you. There is a difference between a Man and a boy,"

He irritatingly looked at me and slapped the back of my head.

"What did you say?"

He asked gritting his teeth I just tried to calm myself down from piercing his body just with my finger in two as I had to learn which place was this and who exactly was the 'Prince'.

I just smiled like a fool and continued walking with them until we reached a place like an open area.

My sight fell on a tent and the noise of strong moans and screams of a girl came from inside.

"Aahhhhhhhhhhhhh, Prince,"

Another scream filled my ear and I wondered who was this girl and who was this Prince.

The screams and moans intensified and I walked closer a little.

"Wait here, until the Prince finishes his business,"

I gulped as the thought of that Prince being Abhinandan and doing all this shook me to the core.

If this person was Abhinandan, then I could not believe how much he had changed.

And, when the moans stopped, I inhaled a deep breath, waiting for a man to come outside.

And, after a few moments, my sight fell on the tall, young man, moving his fingers into his hair, half-naked, wearing the loincloth that was hanging low on his waist revealing all the fine abs and muscular body.

And as soon as my eyes reached his face and focused my sun-blinded eyes on his face, the earth swept through my feet.

It was Abhinandan Mahabalesh.

He walked towards a vessel that was placed nearby and washed his face with the water.

Wiping his wet face with the dry cloth, he walked towards a wooden bench placed there and sat on it, spreading his arms wide on the bench and putting one foot on the thigh of another angling it.

"Aao aao Rudra, tumhara hi intzaar ho raha tha,"

"Welcome Rudra, we were just waiting for you,"

The soldiers left me and pushed me forward to him.

"Abhinandan, what is all this?"

I asked pointing towards the tent and what was happening there.

He smiled and stood up from the bench with a smile.

"This is all, what I call having fun. Do you want to meet the girl? or maybe...,"

He said and his 'Maybe' at the end made me grit my teeth in anger.

I turned my face to look towards the tent and the moment my sight fell on the girl who just walked out of it a terrible shock ran over my face and I looked at him in anger.

I fisted my fingers and was about to punch right at his face.

"Bastard,"

I cursed and stopped my hand in the middle just by remembering that I promised Nandani that I would protect him and not hurt him at all.

But.

He just chuckled and laughed and stepped closer to me and looked into my eyes.

"This is just the beginning of your end,"

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