Chapter 269 - Someone To Take Care Of Him.

Ch-268

Present…

Henry doesn't know why suddenly this memory flashed in his mind. But this reminded his past rude behavior towards his elders and his behavior towards Esther. He closed his eyes as he tried to ignore the pain in his head by the sudden flash of memory at an unexpected time. He massaged his head slightly as he tried not to show his discomfort to Esther. 

"Why are you scared?" Henry asked. 

"I don't know…" Esther's truthful reply came out of her mouth. 

"Shall I tell?" Henry asked. 

Esther nodded her head still burying her head in his chest not intending to raise her head. Henry could feel sharp shooting pain tremors passing in his head, but he bore them with his clenched teeth. 

"Because… he only showed his fierce side to you. Do you know how much he loves you? In your past life… he has to do that because of my mistake. If I hadn't defied him, he would not have chosen you as the ruler. And as a future ruler you should be decisive and prone to act based on the facts, but not based on the emotions. Like me… I was trained for five years and just because of a year -long relationship with you, I made your father unable to lift his head in the court. 

"You are in your shoes while you saw him. Be in his shoes when you see him once. You will know why he was like that. He is the reason for your decisive attitude which you have right now. You are going to be a queen… decipher people in the right way," he said, putting her head like she was a cat. 

"My hair brother," she said with a pout. 

Henry thought she looked cute when she did that. Esther doesn't know that whenever she pouts her lips, Henry always has the urge to pinch her cheeks. But he knew that would hurt her. So he held his urges back. But… if Esther gave this same pout to Cyrus… then he would throw everything aside and would kiss her pouty lips! 

Well… a husband is a licker while brother is a doter. That's a fact.

"You still act like a child," he said ruffling her hair, further irritating her further. 

"Brother! I will take legal charges on you for this!" she said as she stood up suddenly while pointing her cute little finger to his nose as her nose flared, while her cheeks puffed and her ears were emitting the invisible red smoke. 

Henry has a big urge to squish her face like a jelly. "Little Twerp… I have an urge to squish your face," he said with a chuckle. The headache he felt earlier was thrown out of the window just like that. 

Esther's eyes widened in shock! 

"Since, you can joke like this! I am leaving! Imma rest now! Hmph!" Esther went out as she huffed and puffed. 

"Don't forget what I said," he reminded her when she opened the door. 

"I don't suffer from amnesia or Alzheimer's!" she huffed and looked around not before giving him an aggrieved angry, fake and scrutinizing gaze to him as he covered her cheeks. Esther thought her look was intimidating but only if she knew that was a weirdly cute reaction to Henry, she would die from agitation. 

How could he do that!? Her cheeks have no safety!? Sobs! She should protect her cheeks! Ahh!! 

Ahhh!!! Wait!!

He didn't eat anything in the morning! She should take some food to him. She took divergent from her room to the kitchen. 

Henry let out a heartful chuckle after a long time seeing her leave with her weirdly cute reaction. Henry tried to imitate her look but he couldn't do it. Only his little twery knew how to make things funnier and weirder. She just looked like a monkey when it scrunched his face at a fly flying near its face. 

Seriously! Monkey! 

God! 

If Esther knew that her brother compared her to a monkey, she would die from shock! But a poor soul wouldn't know it just like many millions of worse comparisons of her brother. Sigh… 

The headache which left him a few minutes ago… found it's way back again. He placed his left palm and rubbed his skull slightly as if to ease his pain. But nothing worked. With a heavy sigh… he leaned his head back on to the head rest and closed his eyes in an attempt to sleep. But his growling stomach and his aching head were not allowing him to sleep. Henry felt this would be a sleepless night for him today. He slid down and lay down softly as he tried to sleep again. But his stomach growled again. He wanted to go down and serve himself some food to eat. His condition didn't let him get up. He sighed at his helpless situation. Earlier he wanted to ask Esther to get some food, but remembering her sleepy state, he didn't have the heart to make her do work for him. He wanted to call maids… but there would be only one female maid in the night. He doesn't want to disturb her. Henry decided to suffer by drinking water. He got up and took the water jug only to find it empty. He let out a frustrated sigh… and slept down ignoring the rumbling stomach. 

He neither wanted to disturb his mother. He chuckled at himself for being in such a helpless situation for the first time. Only… if he has a person who could take care of him, how good it could be. Suddenly a figure in a blue saree flashed in his mind. He could only see her smiling lips, not her face. Rana doesn't know that the person who could take care of him and the person in the blue saree were his wife. His… future wife. Who has stronger headedness than Esther. 

He rubbed his head feeling the pain in his head increasing at the thought of this unknown woman in his memories again. 

"Who are you, Sweety?" he muttered under his breath, feeling the restlessness in his heart at the memory of her. 

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Author's Notes: 

What do you think of Henry's wife? Who could she be?