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THE evening arrived so fast as the maids primped Rina up for the date, she was sitting facing the mirror as the maids worked.
As you know, Raghav had promised to take her out on a date that evening, and had also asked her to dress royal, which she was doing.
As she was getting prepared Zaina came in, little Reyom was in her arms.
“Good evening My Lady”, the maids greeted her, and she replied.
“Prince’s heartbeat”, she called and Rina smiled, “every other heartbeat is fake, so fake”, she said and Rina laughed out.
“Don’t start today please”, Rina said.
Zaina turned to Reyom.
“Reyom, look Mummy is getting ready, getting ready for a date with Daddy. Wish them well”, she said to him.
“Dada… da da da”, he said, playing with his hands.
They laughed.
“Good, but so sorry you won’t be going, you would be staying home with me. Mum and Dad are going to have fun, it’s an all adult thing”, she said.
“Leave my son alone”, Rina said and laughed out.
“If I leave him now, who would hold him? He is my son as well, my godson”, she said.
Rina laughed again.
“Whatever, just take care of him for me”.
“Good, that’s what you should have said, and not leave my son alone”, she tried imitating her.
“Silly bestie”, Rina said. Just then, her mother entered.
“Daughter? How is it going?” She asked, walking up to her.
“Good evening Mrs Doween”, Zaina greeted, smiling.
“Zaina dear, you are here”, she said and Zaina nodded.
Rina smiled.
“Going smooth”, she replied.
“Good evening My Lady”, the maids greeted as soon as she got to them.
She turned to them, smiling.
“Good evening dears”, then she turned to her daughter.
“Oh my! You look sweet honey”, she said.
“Thank you mother”, she replied.
“You are really blessed Rin, a blessing to our family”, she caressed her on the cheek.
She smiled.
“I’m happy I am mum”.
“Go on and have fun okay, you deserve the happiness you are getting now, you really suffered for it”, she said.
Rina heaved a sigh of relief and nodded.
“Thank you mummy”, and she got up and hugged her.
“You are welcome. I think Raghav must have left, quick you have to hurry”, she said to the maids and they doubled up.
Then Mrs Doween turned to Reyom on Zaina’s arms and played with him a little, then headed out of the room.
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Rina was led into an upstairs balcony few minutes after she arrived the location. Raghav had already gone before her, she arrived later.
She got in and saw Raghav standing by the rails and overlooking the environment. She smiled and joined him.
“Babe?” She called.
He turned and saw her, his mouth fell into an ‘o’, he couldn’t believe his eyes. Rina was looking so beautiful before him.
She instantly noticed him gawking and she hugged him. He hugged her back.
“I love you Rina”, he said.
She smiled, so broadly.
“I love you too Raghav, I love… love you”, she replied.
He smiled and disengaged from the hug.
“Remember I told you to tell me what you want, so I can properly say sorry to you?” He asked and she nodded.
“Yeah, but I also remembered saying I wanted you. Oh, please let’s forget about that”, she said and turned away from him, looking at the houses in the distance.
Raghav joined her, and they watched the beautiful scene. It was already dark, so it was just different colors of lights that shone from the houses in the distance, coupled with the stars and moon in the sky.
Rina was mesmerized. It really looked beautiful.
“As beautiful as you are”, Raghav said without looking at her.
“Huh?” She turned to him, her mouth flew open.
“The environment is as beautiful as you are”, he turned to her this time, then kissed her mouth close.
“I promised to give you a gift, we the royal family promised to reward you for no one helps the royals and goes unrewarded”, he said, and she looked at him, her eyelids flickering.
“Rina, I have gone to so many places, I have seen so many people, I have read so many books. Even in all my years as a Medical Doctor, we were never taught in school that our heartbeat can be human, and the pretty angel standing right in front of me seems to be my heartbeat”, he went down on one knee and took out a ring box, glittering.
She gasped and looked up, looking around, that was when she met her biggest shock. The whole family was already there, gathered at one end of the balcony watching them. Huh? When had they arrived? Besides, she thought they weren’t coming.
Then flashes of light lit up the place at intervals as the press recorded. God! When had all these arrived without her knowledge?
She turned back to Raghav, he had gotten out the ring from the box and was staring at her. Her right hand was cupped over her mouth.
“Rina Doween, the mother of my son, the heartbeat I never knew I had, my world, please say yes to me”, he said to her, in the softest voice she had ever heard.
She gasped again. Jeez! This was Raghav, the kingdom’s best, the Prince and heir apparent to the throne of Shimla kingdom, asking her, a mere maiden, once a palace maid, once a pauper to be his wife? Huh? Who does that?
Out of shock, she looked up again at the family. She could sight Zaina, she was videoing and signaling to her to say yes.
She could see Prisha as well, nodding her head vigorously and her mouth saying yes.
Others were nodding their heads as well.
Hahaha, she laughed inwardly, was she a fool? Why on earth would she say no? The devil that was gonna make her say no hasn’t even been created.
She looked down at Raghav again, he was waiting patiently for his woman to accept his proposal.Belonging to NôvelDrama.Org.
Without ado, she took up her left hand, and stretched it out to him.
“Yes!” She exclaimed, “yes baby, yes, yes!” She continued, chuckling.
Raghav smiled and wore her ring, then got up and they hugged, then kissed so passionately.
The family now came forward, clapping and cheering. Some of the maids which had come with them, began throwing shimmering confetti at them as they stood, still kissing.
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Good evening people, and welcome to News At Eight.
The female newscaster on the television started.
She read out the news in detail as Vidya watched on from her prison, where she sat.
In the prison, they were made to always watch the news, especially the one at eight.
Reluctantly, a lot of them had begun watching. As the newscaster read out the details, she listened and then, one of the news headlines attracted her attention, and she listened keenly.
“Rina Doween, a maiden of Shimla kingdom has just said yes to His Grace, the royal Prince of Shimla kingdom, Prince Raghav.
“What!” Vidya gasped, her eyes widened in shock. The newscaster continued.
This evening at Bivan Hotels, Prince Raghav proposed to his lover, the mother of his son, and she said yes to him.
The whole of the royal family was in attendance including His Grace, King Neel and his beautiful wife, Queen Arya. Everyone…
“No ooooo!” Vidya shouted out at once, startling everybody. Then she became violent, tearing at her clothes and pulling at her hair.
Immediately, the prison wardens rushed forward and packed her away.
So much for a prince’s betrothed.
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Bellarmine sat on the sofa in the living room surfing through the internet, and scrolling on Raghav’s wall on instagram.
Infact, for some days now, she had suddenly started doing that. Visiting his social media handles and scrolling through his walls.
Although, she was now married. Forcefully married to Lawson, her manager, but that didn’t deter her. She still lusted over Raghav.
So as she sat sipping wine and scrolling through his page, she stumbled over a video, updated about two hours ago, and the caption, the caption got her.
“She Said Yes To Me”, it read.
What! Immediately, she tapped on the video to play, and it did. It was actually his engagement video.
In the video, Raghav was seen proposing to a lady and the lady, she didn’t know who she was, she had never seen her with him.
She watched as he said sweet wordings to her, and the lady, blushing real hard and looking around, surprised.
Hold on, he even called her mother of his son. So that means, he already had a child with the lady in question. Jeez!
She continued watching and then, she couldn’t continue anymore. Angrily, she flung away the phone and then sprawled on the floor crying hysterically.
So much for a model and social media influencer.