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So if you have decided to read the story, I promise you will not regret it. Thank you for choosing my story to read. I will not take much of your time, so I present you the First Chapter of “In the Shadow of Love’s Throne.”

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‘Katha‘ is a word that means a story, but what of the girl whose name is Katha? Does the name itself have any origin? Is anything about my name related to me at all?

The answer to all these questions is a yes.

I was given this name by my mother even before I was born. She always wanted a daughter and had wished to have one for years, as her old ladies frame it. I was told, that my mother prayed to God, “I want a daughter like the untouched snow in the North, a daughter who possesses a beauty that captivates the senses. Her radiant lips, as red as the sole rose blossoming amidst that snowy expanse, evoke a striking contrast and a sense of rare enchantment. Her hair cascades like a lush jasmine garden on a moonlit night, delicate and fragrant. And her body, sculpted with grace and purity, resembles that of a Greek goddess, a manifestation of timeless elegance and allure. A daughter, the princess who embodies a celestial beauty that leaves one in awe, a harmonious blend of nature’s wonders and divine artistry.“

That’s all she asked for and these are the words written on one side wall of the beautiful garden with a pool adjoining my room.

I am talking about all of this, my mother and the ladies around me in the past tense because the name also states that it took my mother years, and many miscarriages to have me and when she finally did, she couldn’t even see me, because she had died while delivering me and that is the saddest part of my life. I may have lived up to my mother’s expectations of being a beautiful, strong, fearless, and extraordinary daughter but I am the same gift she never learned about. My father never loved my mother because of her dark complexion and the fact that she never looked like a queen and also never lived up to his expectations.

My mother was my father’s first wife and also the only one among the three of his wives to have provided him with children. She was unloved by my father and always regretted not having been able to keep him all to herself, she did not like sharing what was hers, a trait I have inherited from her. I have an elder brother who is my everything, a friend, a mentor, a tutor, and of course, the only man who loves me enough to make up for all the other members of the royal family.

My brother Abhay Singh has taught me how to overcome challenges, he has taught me everything he learned from his tutors, including swordsmanship, archery, using javelin, and other weapons. But the weapon that I have learned to be a master of is being a silver-tongued person. Even bhai-sa is not at all a master of it but I have always been praised by the royal priest who himself is the most intelligent person as people phrase it. He is also a master manipulator and the very tutor of bhai-sa.

My father never loved me and I also don’t have any desire to be loved by him. All I desire is being loved by someone who only desires me in return, whose love is not bound by the fact of how many heirs I produce for him, who understands what I want and fulfills every single desire that I have within myself be it royal, mental, or physical. I don’t want a man like my father who loves through complexion and physical beauty, I want someone who doesn’t see what I look like from the outside but sees what I am from the inside.

All this might make me very different from other princesses but I also have talents that are common among all the princesses of the country – the art of knit and sewing, the art of singing beautifully, the art of making people lose senses with just a single action. These are the very activities that I do in my own time, because the time when I need to use my other skills of manipulation and warship, has not come yet but will when I will be married off to King Mrityunjay Rathore of Vajrajanapur.

I have heard stories about him being a strongly built tall and handsome man who never breaks his promises, but is he the man who is arrogant about his beauty or is he the man who respects inner beauty? Will he give me everything I want or will he snatch the freedom I have had in my entire life of 21 years? Only time will answer the questions arising in my mind and only time will tell what it has got in store for me…

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Hi People, the First Chapter ends here. So, what are your views on the start?

I hope you all liked Katha’s character so far. I will soon be publishing Mrityunjay’s POV as well with the poster.

See ya fellows soon…