" Will you be the mother of me and Hukumsa's child?" Vartika hold her hand.

Nandini numbed on her place, she feels like someone has remove her heart from her.

She quickly jerked her hand from her hold. Vartika was looking at her hand.

" W.. What are you t.. talking R.. Ranisa? " She gets up from her seat. Fortunately Vartika booked for them private corner.

" Pl.. please just listen to me, I will expain you everything." Vartika also gets up from her chair and try to hold her hand.

Nandini was still in that trauma, she didn't believe on her ears. It was like a nightmare for her.

" I.. I am sorry, b.. but I have to leave." Nandini was about to go but she come infront of her to stop her.

" Please don't say no, You are my last hope, I.. I really want to be mother, I have only this option, every door is close. Please help me, please I beg you." She joined her both and infront of her and pleading to her.

Nandini was shockingly looking at her.

" R.. Ranisa, I.. I can understand y,. your state of mind, b.. but I can't do this, I am sorry, I respect you a lot, you are our Maharanisa, b.. but I can't help you." She was denying.

" Please don't do this to me, I will give you everything, I will give you everything you wish, money, car, bungalow, servants, everything. Your life will change completely, you will never have to spread your hands in front of anyone, you will be able to live your life comfortably without any problem. Trust me. Just give me one year of your life, after that I will not make waste your even a second, I guarantee that after this you will not lose a second of your life, you will spend your life in a normal way, in future you will never have a problem because of me. " She was begging to her.

Nandini was moving back to avoid her touch, she was feeling so weird and creep.

"R.. Ranisa pl please d.. don't do this, you are a very respected woman, it does not suit you, pl.. please get up. " Vartika hold her both feets.

" N.. No please help me. Please give me my baby to me. I will be grateful for you all my life, please have mercy on me. Please try to understand my pain, I just want to be a mother. " She was pleading to her.

Nandini was helplessly looking at her, The Queen of Udaipur was begging in front of some random servant of her palace, and only just for a child. Her head was blasting, she was frightening of Vartika now.

" Enough." Nandini screamed and pushed her angrily. Vartika scared from her heavy voice.

" What do you think of yourself? If you have money and power, will you get anything? Can you do anything with anyone? What do you think, poor people like us do work in your palace, then it doesn't mean, you can order us to do anything. You cannot buy me, if I want to earn money, I will earn on my own, but with the help of someone, or I will not choose the wrong way. For my existence I don't need you. " First time she raised her voice, in front of anyone, in fact on not even Manik too. But she was the Queen of Shish Mehal.

Vartika was shockingly hearing her every word.

" If you want surrogate for your baby, then find someone, but spare me, I am not the one, don't expect from me anything, I can't do this, already this place and Palace has snatched from me my everything, now I don't have anything to give you, Rajmata and Yuvaraj had made my life hell there and again you want me to make me suffer, only because of you, My grandmother was absolutely right, she used to tell me, that you royal people are heartless, they think that they can get anything on the strength of power, they can exploit helpless people, Use it for as long as you want and later throw it away like garbage, you Rajwade considered as garbage, you have no heart feeling for anyone, you only cared about yourself and your throne. All you people are greedy and disgusting. " A small tears rolling down in her eyes.

Every single moment spent in Shish Mehal was coming in front of her eyes, whatever happened to her till date, she suffered a lot, but she did not share it with anyone. But today someone came to buy her, was she really so helpless and lonely, that anyone could come and bid her price and buy her for their purpose? Today her self respect was hurt more than her heart.

" N.. Nadinini I.. " But She cut her off.

" First Rajmata, then Yuvraj, all took advantage of my and my grandmother's helplessness, she lost her life, but she lived honest with your shish mehal till the last breath, just because my future could be better. Rajmata did with me that even the enemy does not do this to anyone, she punished me, but even after leaving that palace till date, I am still serving this punishment. She ruined my life and the rest of the Yuvaraj did. You have no idea what he did to me. They are both responsible for my terrible childhood. For which I will never forgive Sheesh Mahal. Don't you think it's too much, leave me now. Stop using me, I want peace in my life, I'm fine, I don't want to look towards my dark past. Please." She joined her both hands in front of her.

Vartika was looking down in shame. That innocent teenage girl had shown her their dark reality. Their original identity. Their truth is very disgusting, those people are false, she proved this today.

" Throughout her life my grandmother kept protecting me from this dark world and this truth, but in the end she too gave up and left me alone in this greedy world. Everyone here is ready to eat my flesh, everyone just wants to use me, but nobody wants to know how I am? What do I want? You all the royals are same, Some are seen from the front, some are masked, but inside are all the same, demons in human form, selfish. Everyone has their own dark secret and to hide this secret, they can go to any extent, for which even a six-year-old girl is not spared. " Her heart was bleeding, It seemed to her that what had been buried in her heart for so many years, finally came out today, she felt very light, as if she had dropped the burden off.

She takes a deep long breath, slowly sits in the chair again, both of them silent, tears were flowing silently from her eyes, Vartika stood beside her in guilt. She did not have words to say anything in his justification. Because everything was true, she was also like them.

" It is better to ruined the life of an innocent, that you remain childless, because that child will also do what you have done in your past. " She was saying all this in painful tone.

Vartika gasped in fear, her both hands automatically reached to her mouth.

" I can't help you anymore, find some other Nandini, you have money and power, you can buy anything but not this Nandini." She gets up and put the check again on her hand.

She left from their. Kabir was watching all this from the door, she come to near the door, both looked at each other, he joints his both hand and tilt his head to down for an apology. She gave a last glance to him and left from there.

Kabir slowly entered in the room, where Vartika was looking at that check sadly. She looked at him and he slapped her.

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Nandini was running, she doesn't know where to go, what is her destination but she was just running like a hell, breathing heavily but not stopping, she just wanted to run away from this greedy and fake world. There was a lot going on in her mind, she just wanted to run away from these, and stay in a place where there is only peace. She was not in her senses, tears were flowing from her eyes, she did not care about herself.

Suddenly she collides with a bike,and that biker immediately pressed the break, she falls down. But still there was no difference in her state, she was looking somewhere with an empty eye. The bikeman gets down quickly, where her hands and feet were bleeding, but it seemed as if she could not feel anything.

" N.. Nandini." That boy bent down and held her hand.

Tears were still flowing from her eyes.

" I.. I am sorry." He was apologising to her.

But she was siting like a full on the road. People going by the way were watching her, but no one was approaching her, perhaps everyone was thinking that this could be their personal matter.

There was not even a scream of pain in her mouth, both her knees and hands were badly scratched, but she didn't realize this. So did her body stop feeling the pain now?

" Nandini." He patted her shoulder but there was no response from her side.

He was scared, when he looked at her in that such condition. But this was not the time to think, he quickly stands up, and tries to stop the taxi, a cab stops, he picks it up in her arms and seats him with it in the taxi.

The doctor bandaged her, and prescribed her some medicines. That guy tells him the whole incident.

"It looked like she was running from somewhere, she was only running, and suddenly came in front of my bike, fortunately my bike was not much in speed. But as soon as I stopped the bike and went to her, she was still sitting like this on the ground, she was not reacting to anything, what has happened to her? " He was worried for her.

" Do you know her? " Doctor was looking at Nandini's face, she was in trauma.

That guy said yes.

" Umm.. She is m.. my friend." The boy.

" I think you should inform her family, only they can handle her, she has been deeply traumatised." Doctor suggested to him.

" Sorry Doctor, but there is no one in her family, she is an orphan, she studies here and lives in a Christian hostel. " He was pitying on her.

She was lifelessly lying on the bed.

Doctors discuss some important things with him.

" let her stay here for few hours, if she feels stable, you can take her back, but she is not in this condition right now." He said in caring tone and left from their.

He slowly sits near her, she was unconscious due to the heavy dose, seeing her pale face, he feels very bad, he caresses her hairs gently and hold her hand.

" It all happened because of me, I should have told everything to Grandma before. But you did not even recognize me, as I was recognised you, that you are Nandini, so why did you not recognize your best friend. " A small tears drops fall on her knuckle but she didn't feel anything.

" Nandu, please wake up, I really want to talk with you, I missed you a lot in all these years. Bhaisa's ( Brother) wrists are still empty, they never allowed anyone to tied up raakhi after you left. Everyone misses you a lot. " He said emotionally.

" When I told you, I am that guy who used to be your best friend in childhood, then why did you refuse to recognize me as well. Nandu you can't forget me and Bhaisa. " But she didn't give him any respose, as she was in deep slumber.

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About two hours later, her eyes opened, she was a little confused to see the environment around her, she felt some heaviness on her hand. She slowly turned his head, she saw someone holding her hand and sleeping with his face hidden in the mattress. So she could not see his face.

She scared and stirred little to free her hand from his hold.

He felt some movement in his hands, opened his eyes, saw that Nandini was standing on the bed, she was shocked when saw him.

" Thank God, Nandu you wake up. Are you fine?" He asked in worried tone, she jerked his hand and was about to run from their but he hold her hand.

" Nandu, what happend? Where are you going? You are not well, you need rest." He was trying to stop her and she was struggling to free herself from him.

She hissed, her bruises were hurt.

" Aaah" A painful sigh escaped from her mouth. Her both legs were badly scratched.

" please don't go anywhere, you will hurt." He was trying to touch her.

She pushed him forcefully, and slapped him, but her hand hurts, and starts bleeding.

That guy was shocked, but when he sees her crying in pain, he turns to her again.

" Nandu." He

" Why did you take so long? Where were you?" She again slapped him.

He frozen on his place. He was looking at Nandini, who was shattered completely.

" Tell me, tumne aane me itni der kyon laga di? " She was sobbing but angry too.

He looked down, as he had no answers from her any questions.

" You know how much I have waited for you, but still you have not come, nor from your family. Do you all know how lonely I had become, after the death of the Amms, but even then none of you came. I waited for all of you because my Amms told me that, your father and grandmother will come and take me with you. You all lie, I have lost my Amms, so all of you have turned away from me, all the selfish people live here, they only knew how to use only innocent people." She was hurt.

" N.. Nandini, no, we did not know anything about all this, and everyone came to know about Amms because of Ramu Kaka. And as soon as they came to know about it, Baba and Dadi went to the palace, but they came to know from there that you no longer live there. The only place where we could find you, but still Baba tried, but in the midst of all this, one day the doctor diagnosed that Dadi had a brain tumor, and everyone forgot you there. After so many years when I saw you in Mumbai, but I have no idea, that you are my Nandu. Because, the last time the two of us met, you were six and I was eight. And you really think that even after eleven years, I could recognize you, we were kid, when we separated. " He was trying to explain her.

She was sobbing badly, her hand was still bleeding.

" You tell me, did you recognize me at first sight?" He hold her hand.

She nodes her head in no tone.

" So how can you expect all this from me?" He cupped her face.

" But the day I came to know, I was on the top of the world, I was very happy that I finally found you. You may have recognized me, but I did not know at that time that you also know me. I wanted to surprise you, but instead, I was surprised by your answer. So tell me, what would I tell them, that you are the one whom everyone has been looking for, because I knew you didn't want to see me since that incident. That is why I did not want to hurt you more because of me. And then... " He was about to complete his words but she interrupt.

" A.. And what a.. about that letter? " She asked.

" L.. Letter?" He asked in confusing tone.

" Don't lie to me again, don't behave like that you don't know anything." She was angry on him.

" Nandu, what are you talking? What letter are you referring to? Which letter?" He questioned.

" My Amms wrote that letter to your Dadi." She said.

" What? Neither Dadi nor any of us received that letter." He replied.

" No, it is not possible, Amms told me that she sent this letter to your grandmother. " She nodes her head in no tone.

" What was written in that letter? " He asked in serious tone,

" After Amms passed away, tumhari Dadi mujhe apne saath le jayein, and..." But She stopped in middle and looking here and there, within a sec. her expression had completely changed.

" A. And." The boy.

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At Manik's penthouse

" I refused you, yet you went, why? Today you let me down in front of her. " Kabir was scolding her.

Vartika was crying.

" P.. Please I am s.. sorry." She asked him to forgive her.

" Now I regret on my decision, I should have agreed with Dadasaheb long ago. If you continue to take this kind of chip things, then I will definitely divorce you and get married again. " He threatened her.

Her heart skipped for a beat.

" Manik is waiting, get ready asap, we are getting late for the award ceremony. And show your smiley face to in front everyone, because I don't want to spoiled my brother's special day." He hold her chin tightly in his hand.

" Remember it." He greeted his teeth angrily and with jerk left her chin.

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1:- Who liked this new avatar of Nandini? She has raised her voice for the first time, against injustice.

2:- Who is that mystery boy? What else would have been written in that letter? Any guesses.

Tell you one thing, sometimes what you guess is also true, some people are somewhat correct in the earlier chapters. But what they guessed, this is a secret, but in which chapter they did it, they might not even know, so keep doing your job through your comments.

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