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As soon as she entered the room, she remembered that she had left her luggage in Kartik's car. Because that time she was so much excited to meet Reema as she had completely forgot.And she can't contact Maya now as her phone was broken now, and she didn't even remember her number. So how will she contact her for her luggage? Maybe Kavya has Kartik's contact number and she remembers her number well so she immediately called her with the landline.
"Hello Kavya."
"Ruhi, where are you and whose number are you calling? I tried to call you so many times but your number is coming switched off and your husband's is also not attending the call. Gauri aunty was also very upset as she was not able to contact you. Will you speak now?" She asked in single breath.
"Let me speak, please!"
"Okay, tell me...."
"Kavya, my phone is broken."
"What? How?"
"I will tell you that later, first tell me, do you have Kartik's number?"
"Kartik's number?"
"Yes"
"Why?"
"Kavya, please give me his number."
"Uhmm, write it."
"Okay," Ruhi quickly notes down his number in the notepad lying there on the side table of the bed.
"Now tell me the whole story from the beginning and where is that evil husband of yours? Have you reached London safely?" kavya asked when Ruhi wrote down his number.
"Yes Kavya, and don't take too much tension, I have reached safely and have also met Choti Maa. And as for Karthik, my luggage is left in his car and I have to contact him for that."
Further she told her everything about how she met Maya, his sister and how she came to know that Kartik is her brother.
"Means your husband was not with you and where were those two bodyguards when the flight landed?"
"He was with King Edward and ..."
"So you too could have traveled with him, right?"
"But..."
"Ruh, Don't favour him. God bless kartik's sister as she was there to help you otherwise how do you manage in an unknown country? Has he lost his mind? You are his wife so he has to be with you! Where are you now?"
"Kavya, here I am in the guest room and don't worry I am alright."
Meanwhile, she heard the knocking sound on the door.
"Knock - Knock
"Kavya, I will call you later," She said and disconnected the phone call.
As she opened the door, she found the man with food trolley.
"Mr. Suresh sent you here?
"No, Ryan sir."
Saying this, he was about to leave when she asked, "Can I talk to him?"
"I don't have his contact number," he said and walked away.
As Ruhi was about to close the door, she saw Rachel standing there with Bruno.
As soon as Bruno saw her, he ran towards her and stood on his two legs near her.
She squatted down, and he started licking her face, "Bruno, I missed you so much," She said holding his face.
He started woofing as he heard her, as he also missed her.
"Rachel why are you here?"
"Ruhi, I wanted to tell you something very important and I have been trying to talk to you for a long time."
Hearing him, she stood, "What's the matter Rachel? Are you following me before? "
He nodded, "Ruhi, I wanted to tell you about Queen Meera. Can we talk inside?"
She shook her head, and made space for them to enter.
Rachel sat on the sofa in the corner of the room and Bruno sat on the bed and lay there.
Rachel was rubbing his hands in nervousness looking down and Ruhi looked at him and said giving coffee to him, "Rachel, you can tell me what it is that you want to tell."
He took that mug, "I know you are not at fault because you did not tell anything to Queen Meera."
Ruhi's eyes got wide looking at him and asked, "Do you know?"
He nodded and said, "Because I told her everything."
"What?"
He added, "Actually, I am not just Ernest sir's driver. Rather, I work for Queen Meera, actually I am a private agent."
Ruhi was hearing him quietly as she was shocked.
" I know how Sir has treated you because Mrs. Meena had told me everything as how he used to question your character and how he treated you, and even you were doing that job under compulsion because he had taken your signature by deception.
Queen Meera had called me that day as soon as she left your house and told me to tell her everything because your family had told her that you were doing a job with Ernest sir on condition not with your wish. "
"My family?"
"Yes, and she was very upset after knowing this, and I had no idea that she had left your house that time and she was driving alone. I told her everything as she was insisting on me several times that I told her the whole truth, due to which she became so sad that she disconnected my phone.
Later, I came to know that her car met with an accident and since then I am suffering from this guilt as I was the main reason behind her accident.
And when I saw Ernest sir dragging you, I understood everything that he must be blaming you for the accident but I did not have the courage to tell him anything," He looked at her as tears were rolling down from his eyes, "I am very ashamed of my actions, please forgive me."
Tears welled up in her eyes, "Ruhi you can tell everything to Ernest sir, I am also ready to accept everything, because there is no fault of yours."
"Rachel, I'm not doing any such thing, do you have the slightest idea what he will do to you?"
"But Ruhi, he will make your life miserable, he loves her mother very much."
As soon as he said this, he looked at Ruhi, who did not seem shocked at all.
"Do you know about Sir Ernest and Queen Meera?"
She nodded and smiled, "Yes I know he is her eldest son, Ernest Edward Arthur."
His eyes were wide, "Who told you this?"
"Ernest sir himself told me when he was blaming me for her accident."
"Ruhi, I am really sorry whatever you had to endure because of me but now you can tell everything to him."
"No Rachel, let Meera aunty get well, and you don't need to live in guilt, as she had to come to know about this sooner or later, so she got to know but yes, I agree that the timing was wrong. Now, you go and rest. You and Bruno will also be tired from the long journey."
He nodded and turned back as he was going, "Ruhi, you are truly a gentle and innocent soul so thank you so much." He bowed before her, "From today onwards you are Crown Princess Ruhi Arthur to me," He smiled looking at her and added, "Welcome to our country England."
"Woof woof," Bruno also started woofing looking at her
She smiled while looking at them and he went from there with Bruno.
"Rachael, I am not the right choice for crown princess," She said seeing his retreating figure and later, she called kartik for her luggage and found out as he was already downstairs to give her luggage.
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As soon as Suresh came into Reema's room, he saw that she was talking to Gauri.
"Gauri Didi, you have taken good care of my Ruh, right?"
"Why are you asking this, Reema," Suresh asked while coming.
"I don't know why but I felt that Ruh was hiding something from me, you didn't do anything wrong with my daughter, right?" She asked with gauri and suresh as she was now talking with Gauri on speaker.
"No Reema, we have not done anything wrong with her and don't worry, everything is fine, you didn't meet her for months that's why you will feel like this, and she was very excited to meet you," Gauri said.
"Didi, if it is so then it is fine because I left my Ruh there in your trust and I expected you to take good care of her."
"Everything is fine Reema, just focus on your recovery and come back soon," Gauri said with a pale smile because she knew the truth how the susheela treated her in Reema's absence.
"Yes, you are right, I want to get well soon, there should be no hindrance in my daughter's education because of me,"
She said with determination and smiled.
Suresh and Gauri both of them now worried as how will they tell her the truth.
Because Reema will not leave both of them when she comes to know that in her absence they got her married.
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"Kartik," Ruhi called him when he was sitting in the reception area and scrolling something in his phone.
Hearing her voice, he stood up and immediately hugged her.
Seeing this, even Ruhi was shocked for a second.
"Ruhi, where were you? I called you so much," He said while hugging her and felt she was pushing her.
He broke the hug and looked at her, who was now looking somewhat uncomfortable, "Sorry Ruhi, but why have you switched off your phone, I..." He paused, "I mean, me and Kavya have called you a lot but your phone was coming switched off."
"Yes, my phone has broken, that's why. Thanks for bringing my stuff," She said taking her luggage.
"Ruhi," He kept his hand on her hand when she was holding luggage's handle, "let me help you."
But seeing them together definitely lit a fire in someone's heart. And it was none other than Ernest who was just entered into the hospital.
"What the f*ck do you think you are doing?" He yelled, glaring at him gaining everybody's attention.
Hearing him, he hurriedly removed his hands and thought, maybe he is her husband.
Ernest came towards them, staring at him, "who are you?"
"I am her friend and you?"
Ernest looked at kartik and then Ruhi.
"He is my former boss, I used to work under him," Ruhi replied.
"He is not your husband?" He asked Ruhi.
"No!" she said looking at Ernest who was glaring at her.
But kartik was looking happy and this happiness did not escape from Ernest's observation.
He stretched his hand towards him to shake his hand with a smile, "Myself kartik."
But Ernest stared at him and his hand for a while and ignored him completely, as he was thinking as he met him somewhere before.
"Ruhi, then let me help you. " Kartik said and was going to hold her luggage when she was going towards the lift.
Ruhi looked at Ernest who was looking like he was going to swallow both of them, and said looking at Kartik, "Don't worry, I will manage."
Just then Karthik's call came, which was urgent so he picked it up.
He got to know after attending the call that he has to leave for his office now as he is doing his internship here along with his studies.
"Ruhi, I will meet you later and yes, if there is anything urgent then call me, and you have my number, right?" He asked with a smile.
She nodded and looked at Ernest who was now clenching his fists at the sight of them.
"Okay bye," He said and went from there.
As Ruhi was going to the lift, Ernest said looking at her, "Come with me."
She ignored his words and was about to enter the lift when Ernest pulled her luggage from her hand, and hold her hand, "Don't make a scene and let's go."
She looked around as some people were staring at them.
"Leave my hand. People are staring at us," She said while trying to remove his hand.
Ernest couldn't care less when she was screaming to leave her. They reached the parking lot and he said, "Now sit in the car quietly. We have to go to Arthur's Palace."
"I am not going anywhere. Choti maa needs me," She said and started to leave from there.
He held her wrist and pulled her, "Ruhi,
Don't force me to pick you up from here and make you sit in the car, so sit quietly in the car yourself."
"You can't do this to me."
"You forced me to do this with you," He said and shifted her luggage in the car and went towards the driving seat, on the other side Ruhi was staring at him.
"Hurry up! We are getting late," He said while looking at her.
She nodded and sat in the car as she didn't want to argue with him more.
As he started the car, he asked, "Take off this overcoat, the heater is on in the car."
She didn't respond to his words, and took out her broken mobile from the pocket of her overcoat and started trying to switch on again.
As Ernest looked at her broken phone, he asked, "How did it break?"
She didn't again reply to him, and put her phone back in the overcoat's pocket.
Seeing her behavior he said, "Ruhi, I am asking you something, how did it break?"
"I don't have to tell you anything," saying this, she looked outside. Meanwhile Suresh called on Ernest's phone.
"Hello Davis Sir,"
"Say Mr. Suresh."
Hearing Suresh's name Ruhi looked at him with gleaming eyes.
"Sir, is Ruhi with you?"
"Yes, why?" He asked looking at her.
"She wasn't actually in the room and she is new in this unknown country so I was worried about where she was. In fact her phone was broken so I called you."
"Don't worry Mr. Suresh she is alright and we are going home."
"Okay sir, but can Ruhi stay here with us for a few days, actually Reema needs her."
"No," he said looking at her who was continuously looking at him and hung up the phone, while tears welled up in her eyes as she listened to him.
Later, they arrived at Ernest's penthouse, and he went inside leaving her alone.
She herself took out his luggage from the car and started to drag inside.
As she came inside, she looked at Bruno who was woofing around in the house, carrying his ball in his mouth and Ernest was sitting on the sofa with his laptop.
When she was dragging his luggage, she broke the vase near the table by mistake and looked at Ernest who was looking at her with evil smirk.
"Do you know how expensive that was?"
"It was broke by mistake, sorry."
"No, sorry won't help you, you should be punished," he saw something on her forehead and his smile disappeared, but after some time with an evil smile he asked, "Do you want to live with your family??"
"She nodded her head repeatedly with a broad smile, "Yes..."
"Okay then you can go but on one condition...."
To be continued...
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