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“… AND since then, I have been living hell”, Rina concluded her story. Raghav was pained, he felt so pained, he felt her pains, he really felt it.
All that she had gone through because of him, in the hands of his mother, jeez!
“You mean my mother did all that to you, all because of me?” He asked, vibrating.
She put her arms around him, calming him down.
“It’s okay babe, at least you have found me now, and our baby is safe”, she said.
“You have really been through a lot baby, I am sorry, so so sorry for putting you through that mess”, he said, “please forgive me”, he said wrapping his arms around her and resting his head on her chest.
Rina was stunned, she smiled and used her palms to rub on his head.
“It’s okay, I have forgiven you, I have nothing against you. The only thing here is, it would still be difficult for your mother to accept me”, she said.
“Don’t let that bother you okay? You have me, you have Zaina, you have Prisha, you have Aunt Aarti, you have Prince Rudra and Prince Zashil, and most importantly, you have our son”, he said and she smiled, so broadly.
“Thank you”, she said.
“Rina?” He called sitting upright.
“What do you want? Just name it, anything, tell me what you want as a proper way to say I’m sorry”, he asked.Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org
“What?” She laughed, “I want nothing. What I wanted was you, and you are here already”, she said.
That was her talk, as for him, he was really gonna find something to gift her, and say sorry properly.
“We need to be in Kuru now, where is mom?” He asked.
“She is out for job hunting”, she replied.
“How we going to do it? I really need to take you with me, I can’t afford to leave you one minute again”, he said.
She laughed, pouting.
“I will just send her a text, she would join us later”, she said.
“Good, go in and get ready, I will be waiting”, he said.
“Okay”, she made to get up and he held her down, then planted a kiss on her lips and freed her. She laughed and stood up, then went into the room.
He was gazing at the drawing she had made when she came out, ready to go. Together, they left the house and into the car, and straight to Kuru.
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They got to Kuru about two hours later and Rina just couldn’t wait to set her eyes on her baby. How was he like? Who did he resemble the most? Was he a small baby or a big baby? She just couldn’t wait.
As soon as their car parked at the parking lot of the palace, a guard opened the door and Raghav alighted, then helped Rina to.
She looked around as the soothing breeze of Kuru kingdom soothed her to the bone marrow. Awwn, how she has missed this place.
They entered the palace, and he led her straight to the room where the baby was.
Arya was in the room as they came in, sitting on the bed beside the cradle and she got up in utmost astonishment.
“Rina! Oh my!” She exclaimed and ran to the door to hug her, hugging her so tight that Rina feared she gonna choke.
They remained in a hug for some seconds.
“Welcome dear daughter, welcome”, she said, disengaging from the hug.
“Thank you My Lady, I have so missed you”, she said, smiling.
“I have missed you too, we have all missed you. Come… come”, she held her hand and led her to the cradle.
Rina looked into the cradle and tears of joy filled her eyes, immediately, she put out her hands and carried him.
“Dear me! God bless you sweetie, God bless you”, she said and planted a kiss on his little lips.
Aarti and Raghav watched in happiness, smiles all over their faces.
Rina then held him to her chest and cried.
“I am really sorry honey, I am sorry for leaving you, I am sorry”, she said, “just know I love you baby, mummy loves you”, she said.
Raghav went closer and put his left arm around them, looking down at him.
“We love you. Dad and mom loves you”, he said, then pecked Rina’s cheeks.
“So would you like to see the guy who had saved your son? He is with us”, Aarti asked.
Rina surprisingly turned to Raghav, he didn’t tell her the baby was actually saved by someone, and she didn’t even asked.
“You didn’t tell me that Raghav”, she said and he sighed.
“Actually, I wanted you to know about that after you must have seen the baby”, he said and then went ahead to explain in detail how he was saved.
Rina was stupefied.
“Oh my! I would like to see him please, I would like to see the person who singlehandedly decided to save my joy, please”, she said.
Aarti smiled.
“You will”, then she went out to talk to the guard who stood by the door and she returned.
Rina now sat on the bed, rocking the baby, Raghav sat beside her. Then she turned to the nanny who had been there watching them in awe.
“You did a great job for my son, thank you so much”, she said to her.
The nanny smiled.
“You are welcome ma’am”, she replied, smiling.
Soon the door opened and the guy who saved the baby, entered and walked further into the room.
Rina looked up from her baby and saw him walk up to them. On seeing her, he stopped in his tracks, surprising everyone.
“Jeez!” Rina mouthed softly and handed over the baby to Raghav, and slowly got up.
Was she really seeing well? Or were her eyes playing tricks on her? She cleaned her eyes with the back of her palm to be sure they weren’t playing tricks on her. But they still revealed the same person.
Everyone became shocked as they watched the little drama before them.
“Rina?” The guy called.
Now, she was sure, there was no doubts.
It was Siddarth Doween, her long lost brother!