Bride of Sultan ~ The Bleeding Rose

1 ~ Getting Married To Sultan Rafiq

All I knew was, I was ready to destruct the one who thought to kill my brother or get finished at all. He didn't know whom he married to. He didn't know about my behaviour. I was not the princess with a golden heart and a beautiful soul. I was a princess with the hate for all, I was the princess who was broken, I was the alive bleeding Rose.

"Ijajat chahte hai, Hamara kaafila sham tak uttar-paschim me pohuch jaega"

"I request your leave now, Our convoy will reach the northern-western plateaus by evening," Sultan said looking at my father and I could see the helplessness on my brother's face.

I didn't know where my life was taking me too and neither I could expect better because I chose venom by myself.

I met everyone and I knew it was the time to leave my home, my Bhai saheb and everyone. After some time, we all walked towards the huge entrance of our Palace and there I could see so many people and attendees ready to departure. While sultan and his friend were only one. I wasn't sure if his family and empire knew about his marriage or not. This was something that happened very sudden and unexpected. All our fellow kings and empire was unhappy because an inter-religious marriage but they didn't have any right to be so because no one wanted a bride like me either. Sultan married me because he was checkmated in his own game and Little did he knew about me was nothing.

"These all will accompany you till you meet your convoy," My father said in his rough voice signalling towards a huge crowd of attendees, servants and soldiers.

I looked at sultan from the corner of my eyes as he nodded. His face was proof of his disagreement in this marriage and somehow it was making me happy. He wanted to kill my brother and here he had to marry a disaster.

One last time I met everyone and moved with our convoy towards the destination. I didn't know the destination, I didn't know where my life was taking me. I knew my life was at risk with him but I was ready to take any kind of risk for my Bhai Saheb. For me, this was the only way to protect him.

We all started walking and I was asked to sit in the palanquin. I sat comfortably and at the moment my mind was stuck on the safety of my Bhai saheb then the wedding. For all, I was a wedded princess and wife of the King Sultan but inside I knew I was on a mission.

The convoy started moving and I washed my leftover tears away. It was a bright sunny day and I knew that the destination was about a month away from us. My heart was feeling heavy and I was afraid because I was away from home and family. No one would be around me familiar to me. I didn't know what would be my life with new people, new place and with an evil King.

I haven't seen him yet properly. All I saw was his dark eyes with dark eyebrows. He had a small mole over his jaw and a dangerous smile that was hard to predict. What I liked about him was nothing.

I didn't expect anything from him, neither a relation of husband and wife nor love. Love was something that ruined me and I didn't have any emotion left in me.

Thinking and reminding all my life the day almost came to the end. We had covered a long path in the day and I shivered suddenly when I heard someone calling my name. I parted the curtains of the palanquin and looked outside.

The sun was dawning and the darkness was flooding over the surroundings.

"Come outside, your highness" I heard his rough voice again and I stepped out of the palanquin. I was wearing the veil and because of it, I couldn't see his face. He was very tall than me and I was like a small frame in front of him.