SIX MONTHS LATER
AJMER
"Mallika.....Mallika?!" A utterly broken and quivering voice of the queen Samadri broke the short slumber Mallika had fell into during the last hours of night.
"Umm...." she sat up on the bed rubbing her sleep deprived eyes when her mother broke down into sobs in front of her.
Her mother was a fighter she knew! Tears and weakness weren't her qualities. In hardest of times she had seen her mother standing straight with her head held high, proudly and here her tears were the alarm that something was in grave danger.
"Maa? " she slipped out of her covers hurriedly to embrace the queen. As a whirlwind moved into her own mind, pondering on the situation. Something was going to happen! But what? She wanted to ask her mother but watching her condition she kept the sil
