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Posted: 19 years ago
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Chapter Twelve

"Tell me more about your parents," Angad said later in the evening as he and Kripa stepped out onto a balcony for a breath of fresh air.

Kripa smiled as memories assailed her. "Every anniversary, my father would buy my mother a little trinket from a different country. One year it was a package of Russian tea, the next a bell from Holland."

"My mother always gets a new diamond of some sort from my father on their anniversary," Angad said.

Kripa smiled, trying to ignore how utterly handsome Angad looked in his formal dress. "Daddy couldn't afford diamonds. But, he'd promised mother the world and so each year he gave her a momento of some far away place."

"What did your mother and father do for a living?"

Kripa sat on one of the wrought-iron benches that decorated the balcony. Angad joined her, his thigh warm against hers as they sat side by side. "Daddy was a simple man, a car mechanic and mother was a schoolteacher. He met her when she took her car in for repairs and three months later they married. Their love for each other filled our house every day."

Angad frowned. "I know my parents respect one another, but they spend very little time together."

"When I marry, my husband and I will spend lots of time together," Kripa said fervently. "We'll share meals and our bed, we'll share our hopes and dreams. We'll even argue occasionally, but we'll always make up and our love will simply grow stronger with each passing day."

She looked at Angad. "That's what I want from marriage, what my parents had." She felt the burn of unexpected tears. "And had they lived long enough, my father would have given my mother the entire world." She swiped the tears that had begun to fall. "I'm sorry," she said and forced a small laugh to hide her embarrassment.

"Don't be," he murmured softly.

"It's just my father died a year ago of a heart attack, and before I had a chance to mourn for him, my mother became terminally ill. She passed away a month ago." To her horror, as much as she tried to suppress her tears, it was useless.

He gathered her into his arms and she went willingly, grief for her parents welling up inside her.

She pressed her face into the front of his shirt as he stroked her hair tenderly. Even as the tears flowed, she was intensely aware of the strength of Angad's arms around her, the attractive masculine scent of him.


"Sweet Kripa," he murmured. "Try not to grieve for your parents. Just think, now they have all of eternity to spend together."

In his sweet words, in the tenderness of his embrace, Kripa knew she was treading on dangerous ground. She was vulnerable to the fantasy he held out. After the dreadful year she'd just spent, it would be far too easy to fall into the fairy tale of becoming a princess in an exotic, foreign land.

Yes, she was vulnerable, and if she weren't very careful, she'd fall in love with the Playboy Prince who appeared to know nothing about love.


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Posted: 19 years ago
#62
Chapter Thirteen

"You like children." It was a statement rather than a question. Angad and Kripa had been walking in one of the lovely parks Wynborough had to offer and Kripa had paused to watch a group of children playing on the swings.

"I love children," she replied. "That's why I became a teacher. When I was younger I told my mother I wanted at least a dozen of my own."

"A dozen? Then you definitely would need a castle to hold all of them."

She laughed, that musical laughter that affected Angad deep in the pit of his stomach. "Or an old two-story rambling farmhouse."

Angad watched her as she looked at the playing children. He found her face utterly fascinating, full of expression and animation.

Two nights ago he'd held her while she cried over her parents and her grief had resonated deep inside him. Since that night they seemed to have become more comfortable with one another.

She turned to him suddenly. "If you weren't a prince, what would you want to be?" she asked.

They continued their stroll through the tree-lined sidewalks of the park. "Oh, I don't know." He grinned at her. "Perhaps a farmer with a two-story rambling farmhouse perfect for a dozen children."

She nudged him in his side and laughed. "I'm being serious."

This was one of the things he enjoyed about her. She challenged him, made him think of things he'd never thought of before. "I don't know it's difficult to think about options when you've been raised all your life for the role you will undertake." He smiled at her. "What about you? What would you have been if not a teacher?"

She shrugged and a light breeze caused her hair to dance bewitchingly on her shoulders. "Maybe a social worker. I like people as much as I like children."

"And that will make you a perfect princess," Angad said.

"Angad, the only reason I agreed to spend the last few days with you is because Aaliyah told me it would be better if you made an announcement to the press that you'd dumped me instead of me dumping you."

"But, I'm not dumping you."

"Angad you aren't listening to me." Her eyes flashed with anger.

"You have a temper," he said in surprise.

"Yes, I have a temper, and I probably sometimes chew with my mouth open. I eat crackers in bed and if there are more than two forks next to my plate I don't know for sure which one to use. Face it, Angad, I'm not princess material."

For the first time Angad wondered if he'd jumped too fast, if maybe she was right and this was all a big mistake.

Had he only chosen her because of the fight with his father? Because he knew his father would disapprove but would be unable to do anything about it?

"Ah, I see I've made you think." She laughed suddenly and in that sweet sound of her laughter, in the sparkle of her eyes, any doubts Angad momentarily entertained disappeared.

"I'm only wondering how difficult it is to sleep on cracker crumbs," he replied.


She started to speak again, but he stilled her by placing a finger on her lips. "You know, most women would think what I'm offering you is a magical fairy tale."

"But I know better," she replied. "It isn't a fairy tale at all."

"Why not?" he asked curiously.

Her eyes lost their sparkle of laughter and instead became somber. "Because everyone knows fairy tales always end happily-ever-after and we aren't going to have that ending."


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Posted: 19 years ago
#63
that was a double treat and it was the best one ever! i just love this ff! cont soon 😊
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Posted: 19 years ago
#64
your fanfics just sooo sweet 😳
continue soon 😛
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Posted: 19 years ago
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omg i jsut read the whole fan fic!!!>..its great plz continue i lov it...sooo magical!!!!! 👏
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Posted: 19 years ago
#66
Chapter Fourteen

"So, today is the last day you're officially Prince Angad Khanna's fiance," Aaliyah observed. She and Kripa were seated at the breakfast table, lingering over coffee.

Kripa nodded. "I gave him a week and the time is up.That gives him two weeks before his birthday to find an appropriate bride." Kripa tried to ignore the ache that shot through her heart.

The past week had been like a dream. She and Angad had spent nearly every waking hour together. They'd taken long drives into the country, eaten at wonderful restaurants, and walked through Wynborough's many parks.

Kripa had accepted each day as an exciting gift, like a reward after a particularly heartrending, difficult year. It had been easy to get caught up in the fantasy of it all. But now it was time for a dose of reality. And reality was that Angad didn't love her.

With each day that passed, Angad seemed to open up a bit more, revealing pieces of himself that she suspected he'd never shared with anyone else. As he'd spoken of his childhood, she'd gotten the impression of a spoiled, indulged, but lonely, child who saw more of his nursemaid than of his parents. It was no wonder Angad didn't understand love. He'd had plenty of duty, of responsibility, plenty of pomp and circumstance in his life, but very little love.

"So, what do you have planned for your swan song as Angad's intended bride?" Aaliyah asked, pulling Kripa from her thoughts.

"I'm not sure. Angad told me to be ready at noon and that he had a surprise for me." Kripa took a sip of her coffee, then sighed. "It's been a wonderful week."

"It doesn't have to end," Aaliyah said.

"Of course it does," Kripa countered. She wrapped her fingers around her coffee mug, then looked at Aaliyah once again. "I'm afraid if I don't stop seeing him then I'm going to do something incredibly stupid."

"Like what?"

"Like fall in love with him," Kripa whispered.

"Would that be so terrible?"

"Yes." Once again Kripa focused her gaze on the coffee in her mug. "Angad is charming, and sexy and handsome. He's obviously well educated and has a wonderful sense of humor."

"But??" Aaliyah prompted.

"But, he didn't choose me as his fiance because he loves me. I'm not even sure he's capable of loving the way I want to be loved." Kripa reached across the expanse of table and grabbed Aaliyah's hand.

"I want a man who looks at me like Pritvi looks at you," she exclaimed fervently. "I need a man who needs me, one who wants to share my thoughts, my life, my dreams."

"So, what are you going to do?" Aaliyah asked softly and squeezed Kripa's hand.

"Tell Angad goodbye." The words caused an ache to sweep through Kripa.


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Posted: 19 years ago
#67
awesome part!!!!!
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i luv ure fanfic!!! 👏
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Posted: 19 years ago
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noooo not good-bye!! lol ur bound to fall in love with him anyways just face it lol! cant wait to read more!
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Posted: 19 years ago
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theyre bound to fall in luv!!!!!! now its ur job to make them!!!!!!!! 😆

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Posted: 19 years ago
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awesome part
no no way no good-bye
just giv him a few more days and he'll fall in luv wiv u 😆 😆
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