Abandoned wife

Bonus Chapter 2

"Common Smita hurry up" Akshay wish to leave as soon as possible

"coming" she brought their picnic bags and put in car.

"You know there will be crowd gathering in Tajmahal as time pass." he complained

"I know but we already have arrangements for tickets and its dawn, we are not going to face traffic." she assures him

"Whatever."

Akshita demanded to go on school picnic with her classmates. Smita was hesitant at first but allowed at the end. After dropping her to school they decided to visit long due visit to Tajmahal. They reached to the Tajmahal early in the morning and as expected its less crowded than afternoon. They have no words to praise the monument in words. The monument constructed by white marble is symbol of love for many. Its location, structure, carving, style, design everything is in sync and looks perfect. After exploring the place for more than two hours, they moved to the the bank of river Yamuna. They spread the mat on ground and sat there peacefully. Its late morning but sun rays felt pleasing in chilling weather of Agra. Smita brought some snacks from home and they buy two cup tea. Its one of kind of experience, sipping hot tea at bank of Yamuna while admiring The Taj. Company of your lover is cherry on the cake.

"So Shahjahan - Mumtaz is your favourite love story." Smita asked

"Nope, mine favourite love story resides in Delhi." Akshay replied calmly

"Really, which one?"

"Its a long story."

"and I am here to listen."

"You know I told about Amir khusrow."

"Yeah, the poet who wrote in Persian."

"He wrote Ishqiya /Ashiquan. He described love of Deval devi and khizr khan in a way that I fell in love with them."

"So you admire love story of fictious characters." Smita was curious to know.

"Nope, they were as real as you and me. Infact that was first Hindu Muslim lovestory exist in history of India "

"Really, I am excited to hear about them. Its a shame, I'm being a Delhite didn't knew about them."

"The story starts with Alauddin khilzi."

"That cruel ruler whom everyone feared ?"Smita asked.

" Yup but its not about him but his son. " he said and Smita gave him full attention." In 1296 Khilzi won war against waghela king Karan deva of Gujrat. His wife Kamladevi married to khilzi and Karan ran away to deccan with his kids. After few years Kamladevi start missing her daughter Deval. Sultan Khilzi send his eldest son and crown prince Khizr to win war against decaan king and brought Deval devi to Delhi "he paused to see her reaction.

"Their love is forbidden." she whispered

"Yes but they didn't knew about being step sibling at the time they fell in love. Gorgeous princess and handsome prince the combination is deadly. Attraction towards each other is most natural thing. In the journey towards north from south, a connection formed between the duo which is not easy to break. "

" You are right when your heart wants something its not easy to suppress the desire . "

" In palace complex their meetings proceeds further and soon the matter came in limelight. King, queen and other courtesan opposed this relationship. Their meeting is prohibited, khizr fell terminally ill. At last king allowed their marriage but disowned both of them. "

" So finally its a happy ending. "Smita chirped.

" I wish it was. Khizr gave up an empire for her and happily accepted being a mere soldier. Later he was accused of treason and prisoned. Deval stayed at his side in prison and she was companion till the end. A crown prince became powerless and that is his biggest mistake. Coup happened, Sultan was killed. They killed Khizr too. Deval wasn't ready to leave his dead body, her hand was cut. A Waghela Rajpoot princess transferred from man to man. She died in dark corner of palace. "