Pregnant For The Royal Prince

THE boss stood in front of the mirror admiring himself as he put on finishing touches to his dressing that morning. He was buttoning up his sleeves when the airpod on his left ear began making a beeping sound.

He immediately ransacked the dressing table for the other airpod, and placed it on his right ear, then he pressed on something in his phone and the beeping sound stopped, and someone who seemed to be talking, came on the line.

Just two days ago, Dylan had come up to him after dropping off Rina’s bag at the Prince’s chamber, saying the Prince had instructed him to come, that he had something for him.

He had nodded and taken him to his room, went into his wardrobe and took out a complete new set of the guard’s wears.

“This is your uniform, the Prince has instructed it should now be given to you, you are now fully welcome to being part of us”, he had said, smiling.

With face full of smiles as well, Dylan had accepted the uniform, all giggling and elated. Why not? Having the uniform now shows he is no more a newbie, and that he’s also been fully accepted as a guard at the palace, which means, full trust.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

He would no more be treated as just anybody, because the symbol was now with him. He thanked The boss immensely and left.

There was a plan after all, trust Raghav, an adroit prince, he had come up with this plan. He had earlier instructed The boss to place a chip in the uniform, and with that chip, connected to his phone and airpods, he could know whatever he was saying, just so they could beat him in his own game.

Today, as Rina had earlier said, Dylan was to bring her back from school, and just right now, the airpods beeped. A voice came on the line.

“He… hello there, can you hear me?”, it was Dylan, he seemed to be talking in a muffled voice, like he didn’t want anyone to hear him.

“Yeah, Dylan. It’s Priest”, a voice came, grumbling into the phone. The boss was listening.

“I wanna speak to Spider, is he close?”, Dylan asked.

“Woah! Is that progress I smell?”, the grumbling voice was now chattering.

“Give the damn phone to Spider”, Dylan shouted into the phone.

“Jeez, you gonna make me shout now, and I don’t want to”, he came again in a much calm voice.

“Alright, alright, hold on”.

Then there was a ruffling sound on the other end for a few seconds.

“Hey boy, it’s Spider”, a voice growled, then sniffed.

“Spider, it’s a done deal”, Dylan said.

“Oh really?”, the voice sniffed again.

“Yes, I will be the one bringing her home from school today, we need to plan how to launch an attack”, The boss simpered, he knew it.

“Bringing who?”, the sniffing voice asked, still sniffing.

“Jeez Spider, must you let that shit called cocaine get into you, have you forgotten our plan?”, Dylan asked, his voice a pitch higher.

“Wait…, his weakness? Prince Raghav’s weakness?”, he seemed to have gotten himself now.

“Yeah, that’s Rina. I’ve been able to make her like and trust me”.

“Wow, good, good. So, how we gonna do it?”.

The boss quickly picked up his phone and put it on record, then he found a seat and sat down, to fully listen to the devil’s plans.

***

Queen Arya sat on the iron seat in the hospital ward gazing at her husband as he laid helplessly on the bed, the King of Shimla kingdom just laid there on the bed looking like a vegetable.

He was placed on a life support machine, as he was still in coma.

A tear escaped her eyes as she placed her right hand on his right shoulder, this was her husband, the King, more tears flowed, she was in great despair.

“But why would our Creator choose to forsake the royal family like this?”, she rhetorically asked.

“Remember, a warning was given to you, but what did you do? You ignored and waved it away”, a voice in her head replied her.

She shook her head to wave it off.

Her hand was still on his chest when suddenly, she noticed a movement of his fingers, jeez, she thought she was hallucinating and so, she opened her eyes wider this time. The fingers moved again, this time she heard a low growl.

She became startled and got up immediately, heading for the door, shouting for a nurse.

She needn’t run too far, for two nurses immediately bursted out from the wards close by.

“What is it my Lady, are you okay?”, one of them asked, a doctor joined them.

“It’s my husband please, I’m fine”, she replied, making a u-turn and they all headed into the ward.

***

The boss walked briskly towards the parking lot where Prince Raghav was standing by the dark blue small Camry.

“All set?”, Prince Raghav asked as soon as he got to him.

“Yes my Prince, all set and ready to leave”, he replied.

Raghav gave a nod and he opened the front door for him, he lowered himself in and The boss closed it. Then he walked over to the driver’s side and entered.

As soon as he entered, the walkie talkie in his breast pocket rang out.

“The boss 207, what is it?”, he said igniting the car into motion.

“Already at the location scene waiting”, a voice came.

“Good, lay ambush as we planned and keep on eagle eyes”.

“Okay boss”, came the reply.

“Remember, capture them alive, especially him”, he reminded.

“Sure boss”, and the line went dead.

Raghav didn’t say a word, he just heaved a long sigh of relief as he glanced outside the car window.

Earlier that morning, Saheed had walked into his chambers to tell him the outcome of the call Dylan had made that morning.

It was Amaya all this while, his damn God forsaken cousin, he knew it, his intuition never fails him, he knew something was amiss, and it must be related to that cousin of his.

Well, they were to launch an attack on the car as Dylan would be taking Rina home. Then kidnap the both of them, and then take them to God knows where.

All these was just to get to him, Raghav.

For daring to lay his filthy fingers on Rina, he and his stupid gang, they were gonna pay for it. Sure, Amaya in particular, would be joining his beloved sister in jail, and they were gonna rot for all he cares.

He growled and fisted his right hand in anger. The boss saw this and sighed.

Few minutes later they got to a lonely street and pulled up, just few kilometers from there was the location scene. They sat in wait following their plans.

They were still waiting when they head a gun shot, keeping them on their toes.

***

Rina connected the pink coloured bluetooth headphone to her phone and placed it on her ears as she sighed and relaxed more comfortably into the seat.

Dylan was the one driving her home today, infact, this was his first day of taking her home from school. Well, she doesn’t mind, Dylan has really proved to be a trusted soul, even though Raghav had warned her to be careful of him.

She glanced at him and that was when she figured out he was trying to talk to her, the loud music hadn’t given her the chance to hear him out, so she removed it.

“Sorry please come again, didn’t hear you properly”, she said.

“Nothing serious my Lady, was only trying to tell you that we will be taking the other route home today, I need to… you know, need to ugh…”, he spluttered.

Rina just fastened her eyes on him and kept nodding as he spoke. Jeez, she was just so tired to argue with him.

“Fine”, she gave him a go ahead and rested her back on the seat, then closed her eyes, savouring the music as it soothed her soul.

It was a hectic day at school, a really hectic one. They had done three paintings, two of portraits and one of a beautiful setting sun beside a lake.

Then she, only she had tried her hands on a bronze sculpture of a race horse.

Woah! Hectic. But she has actually learnt a lot.

Suddenly the car screeched and jerked so violently that she sat up and opened her eyes, removing the headphone.

Gee! A group of hefty looking guys had surrounded the car, they were all putting on masks and holding pistols, chanting mean words at their highest voices.

One fired into the air and she instantly raised her two hands in surrender. She glanced at Dylan, he too was raising up his hands in surrender.

One of the guys opened the back door and shoved her out, she didn’t even know what to do, couldn’t even beg, shout or cry, or laugh. Only her heart knew what to do at the moment, the heartbeat increased.

God! What is going on? What if these dirty looking guys try to rape her? What if they kill her? What if…? These questions flashed through her mind in seconds.

“Sundar, go down”, the one who had shoved her out shouted, cocking his gun, and she went down immediately. She saw as they forcefully pushed out Dylan, and he was begging and pleading.

“Priest, tie them up, we need to leave here immediately”, someone gave a command and as the Priest rushed to obey the instructions, a gunshot from a close distance rang into the air, startling them all.

One thing, the gunshot wasn’t from them, meaning another gang was out there for them.

“Ambush, ambush”, someone shouted and the guys scattered themselves immediately, while Priest bundled her and forcefully began dragging her towards the Wagon they had come with.

She began shouting and pleading for help, biting and pinching at the hefty man bundling her.

Few steps to get to the Wagon, a bullet hit him, and they both fell, with Rina falling on him. She got up immediately and turned to him, jeez, she recoiled. The red substance was already oozing from his arm, where the bullet had hit him, he was grumbling in pain.

She looked up and saw one of the palace guards running up to her. God! What exactly was going on? She looked towards the scene, hundreds of the palace guards had arrived and were now firing at the other group, it was now a war of gun as gunshots scattered all over the place.

“My Lady, I need to take you out of here immediately”, the guard said.

Rina looked more befuddled.

“What’s the matter? What’s going on?”, she asked and looked again, she saw two of the gang boys go down.

“I’m sorry my Lady, His grace is in the best position to answer your questions”, he said and took her by the hand as they ran up to a car parked metres away.

Within a twinkle of an eye, the palace guards defeated Spider and his gang, they were immediately apprehended and handcuffed, their masks were taken off, including the ones on the ground and Dylan. Two escaped with bullet injury on their legs.

“Don’t go after them, boss and His grace would take care of them”, one of the guards said.

Few minutes later, they were all bundled into the palace Wagon, and driven away.