Pregnant For The Royal Prince

THE two Princes were astonished, as they glanced at themselves.

“You were the one?” Rudra asked.

He nodded.

“Yes I was. You might not want to believe it, but trust me, it was me”, he said.

Zaina couldn’t believe her ears, she began looking the guy over and over. Rudra and Zashil tried their best in calming their nerves.

“Of course Siddarth, you don’t just expect me to believe any stranger who walks in here and claims he was the one who brought that baby that fateful night”, he said.

“Sure, sure, I agree”, Siddarth concurred.

Rudra sighed. How was he gonna do this now? Aarti wasn’t in, she was at work. Something came into his mind instantly.

“Okay, can you describe the basket, and everything you could remember?” He asked.

“It’s a brown knitted basket, a big one. The baby, I really can’t say anything about him because I didn’t really look, but I know he was covered with clothes and there was a little stain of blood on it”, he said.

The trio glanced at themselves again, he was driving somewhere.

“Okay. What else? Was anything hidden under the clothes?” Rudra asked.

“Yeah, a small sheet of paper”, he said.

“Hmm, this small sheet of paper, what was written in it?” He asked.

“Well, that the baby was rescued that night from the Queen of Shimla kingdom, and that she wanted him killed. And also, that the rescuer chose to remain anonymous, except he does otherwise”, he stated emphatically.

Rudra nodded. Now he was convinced he was the one.

“Which you have done exactly, you have done otherwise. You have shown yourself”, he said, and the others nodded in concurrence.

He snorted.

“Yeah. What about him? I mean the baby?” He asked.

“Oh! The baby is actually fine, and he has been kicking, all thanks to his saviour”, Rudra replied and pointed at him.

“Yeah, thank you so much”, Zaina spoke.

Siddarth smiled.

“I’m happy to hear that”.

“So, what is this message you have come to deliver? Is the Queen after your life now?” He asked.

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“Not really, it’s the gang. They have been trying very hard to get me since the night I rescued that boy, I have been on the run, no rest”, he said.

“Huh? You belong to a gang?” Zashil asked.

He nodded.

“Yeah, and that was how I was able to save the baby. He was brought to us, to our gang to kill. But I made up my mind to save him instead”, he explained.

Hmm, they all sighed.

“So, they are now after your life? What do you want?” Rudra asked.

“Protection My Prince, protection. I am tired of running and I have no where else to go, I have no family, these people have been my family”, he said.

“God forbids!” Zaina exclaimed, “they can’t be your family”, she said.

“They are. I have no where else to run to and that was why I decided to come here, and explain myself. Please Your Grace”, he said and made to lie on the floor.

“Oh no please don’t, get up”, Rudra said and he stood up, reluctantly.

“I am only pleading Your Grace, my life is at stake”, he said.

“Awwwn”, Zaina mouthed, shaking her head in pity.

Rudra sighed and turned to Zashil, who shrugged his shoulders, communicating to him with his eyes.

“This is risky you know. What if you have only come here to finish up the job, I mean kill the baby? Yes, you might have gone back to the gang, they find out he is still alive, and then they ask you to go back and have him killed, then you decide to appear this way, with this tactic”, he said.

Siddarth’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Oh Maharana, I can’t do that”, he said.

“Of course you can, you are one of the goons right? You have been with them, killing and killing people. A mere baby can’t just make you change overnight”, he insisted.

Siddarth sighed. Did he just say a mere baby? Well to them he was, but to him he wasn’t. That child wasn’t an ordinary one, he wasn’t mere.

Although, all the Prince has said might be true. What if? But he knew it wasn’t for him.

“You are actually right on saying I am one of them Maharana, but I didn’t became one of them just like that, something propelled me to”, he said, not really wanting to say what the something was.

“So, how can you make me believe you?” Rudra continued.

He sighed.

“My Prince, I don’t have anything to make you believe me, but you have guards, team of guards, they can help you investigate. The main reason they are after me now is because I killed one of us, just so I could save that baby”, he said.

“Huh!” Zaina gasped.

“You killed one of you? How?” Zashil asked.

“It was the two of us who had been appointed to carry out the operation that night. I opened up to him and told him exactly what I wanted to do, save the baby, but he didn’t budge in. So I was forced to put him out of the way, it was the blood from his wound that had stained the baby’s clothes”, he explained in detail.

They were all shocked and surprised, hearing from the guy speak. Zaina turned to Rudra to know what he had to say, his final verdict.

“Well Siddarth, I am not afraid as you well know. I’m gonna keep you but under scrutiny. You would be under the watch of my guards for a few days, until we think of what to do”, he said.

Siddarth smiled.

“There is no problem Maharana, I’m grateful”, he said, happy he was gonna be free from those goons for the now.

Then Rudra called at the guard standing by the door and asked him to take Siddarth away, to be kept under their watch.

The guard bowed, and took Siddarth away.

“Jeez! Wonders shall never cease to end”, Zaina said as they left.

Rudra sighed and took up his laptop, standing from his seat.

“Leaving?” Zashil asked.

He nodded.

“Yeah, I need to rest, I have been working”, he said.

Zashil nodded.

“Okay Maharana”, he said.

“Should incase my wife returns, and I’m still resting, please tell her about the guy, so she could go interrogate him as well”, he said and began walking away.

“Okay Maharana”, they replied in unison.

***

Prisha laid on the bed in her room surfing on her phone. She was at Kuru, they still were. Although school had finally ended for the session but, she instead went to Kuru to stay.

The palace at Shimla was boring, nobody to talk to, nobody to hang out with. Dad wasn’t in, neither was mom, nor bro. The house was just empty. So she decided to come to Kuru and stay.

Few days ago, she was told a certain man came claiming he was her nephew’s saviour. He had shown up, although they weren’t expecting it.

It was to wait for her bro to return that was the next, Aunt Aarti had done something concerning that though, but he still hasn’t returned.

She pitied the baby the most. He was just living on earth without a dad, without a mom. Although it wasn’t felt, because he had a lot of people around him, but papa and mama’s love was the best.

Suddenly, she remembered that she had promised to spend time with him once it was 12 in the midday. She checked the time on her phone, it was already few minutes past 12, she cussed and scrambled out of the bed.

Halfway to the door, it opened and she froze on spot, who the hell dare open her door without knocking, huh?

She waited and the door finally bursted open, revealing the least person she expected to see at the door.

“Holy shit!” She exclaimed.

It was Prince Raghav!