One day Abhyansh called Isha to bring him cold water from the refrigerator within 3 minutes, normally she would have gotten but her feet are swollen after he made her stand under the hot son barefoot for the whole afternoon... so she couldn't run, and got late...

He got ice-cold water in a huge container and asked her to step into it, where she is deep into the water to her neck, he made her stand in it for 3 hours and when he asked her to come out, she dropped into the floor numb... after a while, she realized her position, walked to her room, changed into warm clothes and slowly went to the place where she fell before and cleaned the wet place before he could punish her more...

That night she slept but shivered a lot, at one point she shivered so much, that she pulled all her clothes and dumped them on herself to cope with the cold but nothing worked, with each passing second, she felt colder and her life leaving her... she didn't want to die... Even after facing so much torture, she didn't want to die, she wanted to experience the beautiful life which everyone keeps talking about, a life that she never got to experience, she knew she couldn't take medicine without his permission, she has to report even before she has her food now though he didn't respond or glance at her ever, she informed him following the rules, but today she can't follow rules anymore, she took the medicine but that didn't help with the cold, she looked at the bed, and the heavy comforter placed on it... 

She immediately jumped on it and covered herself with the blanket, but the cold didn't stop, and after an hour more, consciousness left her completely...

The next morning, when Amruta didn't see her daughter-in-law come down even after 10 minutes of her usual time, she panicked, she went to her son's chamber, and what she saw made her dread in fear...

She rushed to her daughter-in-law who is shivering under the blanket...

"Isha... Isha... what happened to you ?? Why are you not responding ?? Isha...", Amruta kept slapping her cheeks but nothing worked, she can feel the high temperature on her skin, luckily the medicine worked and the temperature came down a little but still, the temperature is high... 

Amruta tried to wake her up for some more time before walking down to prepare breakfast as she knew her son gets very impatient if he didn't get food on time... Amruta served the breakfast shivering, praying to god that he wouldn't ask about her daughter-in-law but luck is not on their side now like always...

"Where is she ??", Abhyansh asked in his steely tone which sent shivers to his family... He hardly spoke but when he did, it is always either to punish someone or to get a reason to punish.

"Sh...She is running with fever, so... So sl...sleeping", his mother, Amruta Pratap Singh Ranawat spoke fumbling with words... She knows her son's anger and cruelty. She doesn't want her daughter-in-law to face it, so she tried to wake her up in the morning before he arrived but that poor girl is running on high fever, so couldn't even get up, she thought to tend to her after her son leaves for work, but to her bad luck, the man who doesn't even glance at his wife is asking for her today...

"and Who gave her the permission ??", he asked in the same tone...

None of the family responded, all of them are hell scared of him, he is about to get up when he is stopped by his grandmother, Rajmata Devyani Devi, the only woman who is not afraid of Abhyansh, at least not when he is normal, and not in his beastly form...

"Finish your breakfast Maharaj, and then you can go, please", the woman said softly, hearing her plead at the end, Abhyansh's ego is satisfied and decided to follow her words, he had his breakfast and then moved to his chamber, where his wife of 5 months is sleeping, going against his orders...

His mother followed him, she is hell scared for her daughter-in-law. Her younger son, Avyan Singh Ranawat tried to stop her as he didn't want his mother to get hurt or punished by his cruel brother but she didn't listen to him. She loved her daughter-in-law, the only woman who cared for her and took care of her after her younger son Avyan...

Abhyansh wanted to punish his wife, the one woman who he hated more than anything in this world, but what he saw made him furious bringing the beast form out... The woman is sleeping on the bed, how dare she disobeys his orders not once, but twice at the same time...

Abhyansh knew his mother has followed him to save her daughter-in-law and his brother tailed his mother to save her, he smirked...

"Avyan... Close the chamber door, all the servants, out now", He commanded before walking back to his bedroom, within seconds the doors are closed as the servants rushed out of the chamber, hearing his tone, Isha woke up shivering...

The huge chamber of the king consists of three bedrooms, a huge study, a magnificent hall, and a gym room...

Her mother-in-law's several shakes cannot wake her up but his one scream did it, she is hell scared of her husband... Her eyes widened in shock seeing herself on the bed... Her whole body is paining like hell but she tried to wake up and lay on the floor before her husband could see her using the bed, but the poor girl didn't know that he has already seen it...

He walked inside the room like a devil, and his form is enough to scare the hell out of her, she tried to move her limbs but couldn't due to weakness, she crawled to the edge of the bed, and suddenly fell down due to lack of balance, Avyan despite hating his sister-in-law felt bad for her, Amruta rushed to help her daughter-in-law but her elder son's one look stopped her from going any forward...

"Why ??", Abhyansh asked in a cold tone which is enough to scare the sh*t out of her...

"I...I... I don't know how it happened, I'm sor... sorry Maharaj", Isha whispered trembling in fear and cold...

"Your first mistake is to sleep beyond your permitted hours, and the second mistake is to sleep on the forbidden place, you deserve the floor, only the floor, you are my slave... UNDERSTOOD ??", Abhyansh raised his tone in the end... Isha trembled in fear and started sobbing... all these days, she thought she is over his torture and there are no tears left in her but she is so wrong...

"Punishment is you won't come out of this chamber for a whole week and will have only one meal per day", He declared without any emotions... The girl slowly nodded still sobbing and trembling heavily... Amruta couldn't control herself anymore and rushed to her daughter-in-law...

"Abhyansh... beta, please, she is running with fever, high fever, she needs to have a proper meal... please... I beg you", Amruta Singh Ranawat folded her hands and requested him... Without paying any heed to her words, he left the chamber followed by his brother...

Amruta hugged her daughter-in-law crying about their fate, thinking how her one mistake has turned her son into a beast... He was a beast from the start, but then he at least respected his mother's words and didn't hate her...

Amruta laid a blanket on the floor, made her daughter-in-law sleep on it, and then started rubbing her whole body with cotton cloth, and after a while, brought a lot of food for her, and made her eat some since her son gave permission to give her only one meal, she took a lot and decided to feed her daughter-in-law the other two meals from the first meal itself, since no servant comes inside the chamber, they wouldn't know... Well, that's what she thought but what she didn't know is her son wanted the same... 

The last night when he came to check on Isha, he found her on the bed with blankets wrapped, anger coursed through his body, and he went to pull her down, but when he held her arm, he realized she is running with a high fever, he saw the medicine she took... he knew she would survive till the morning, so he left from there, he felt a strong urge to help her and he hated that part as much as he hated her... he walked out of there...

Abhyansh intentionally gave her a punishment to stay in the room for the whole week as that would get her proper rest to recover and bear his tortures, well that's what he thought to himself, but the thought that she could have died if she didn't take the medicine or take the bed disturbed him more than he would want... He didn't want to soften on her, so he punished her with just one meal a day and that satisfied him and his raging heart for even thinking about softening on her, but his brain countered about how he knew his mother would do something like taking the meal for her that's sufficient for the whole day yet he pretended to overlook it... And just like that, his fury returned and he banged the table in anger...

A week passed by, and Isha recovered completely though a little weak, she started doing her duties, Abhyansh stayed away from her to give her time to recover before he begins with his torture again...

After breakfast, she went to her office after a whole week...

"Thank you Ragini, for the leave, I needed it badly", Isha said with a small smile...

"No problem dear, you are fine now, that's all that matters, now get started with work, you have a lot of pending orders", Ragini said

Isha nodded and started with her work...
Ragini requested her to finish at least one of the pending orders by the end of the day and Isha nodded, she is thankful to Ragini for granting her the leave of one week despite the hectic schedule and Isha thought she could do this much at the least...

Isha knew she would get late, she tried hard to finish the work but couldn't... She called and informed Amruta about it, Amruta asked her to come as soon as possible leaving work afraid of her son punishing Isha but she has already promised to Ragini so she couldn't...

Isha finally reached home 2 hours late and her mother-in-law has done all the work Isha is supposed to do except for cooking as The Beast would get to know the taste of the food... Isha thanked her mother-in-law and started cooking, they thought Abhyansh didn't keep a note of when her arrival but they are so wrong...

During the dinner... Isha tasted the food and then served him like every day and he silently ate... He got up to leave and both Isha and Amruta sighed in relief when Abhyansh opened his mouth snatching the relief from them...

"Both of you, will starve for the next 3 days", he said and walked away...

The other family members were in confusion about who The king was referring to but looking at the mother-in-law-daughter-in-law duo's pale faces, they got the whole picture that they might have done something like defying the rules... They sighed and left from there except Avyan...

"What did you do ma  ??", Avyan asked

Isha is about to answer but Amruta held her hand trying to stop her, Isha told him nonetheless...

"I got late at the office and ma covered for me, don't know how he got to know...", Isha muttered the last part to herself but Avyan heard her...

"Bhai sa knows everything, we would be a fool if we think he wouldn't know", Avyan said a bit rude as he is angry with his sister-in-law that because of her, his mother is bearing the punishment...

"Avyan... I will slap you if I heard you talking in that tone with Isha again, she is your brother's wife, respect her, yes, he doesn't accept her now, but I know one day he would accept her wholeheartedly and give her all the love...", Amruta said looking at Isha affectionately...

Isha smiled politely at her mother-in-law not to hurt her but she knew nothing of that sort is gonna happen again ever... She has lost all hope after what he told her a couple of months ago when she officially became his slave...

"Ma, if she comes late, why do you have to cover up for her, now you had to bear the punishment...", Avyan justified his anger this time softly...

"It's not like she is not suffering, didn't you hear your brother, he asked both of us not to have food for 3 days, not to me alone... And listen to me carefully, your bhai sa is wrong in treating Isha like this, doesn't mean you follow in the same path and disrespect your bhabhi sa...", Amruta said

"Ma... Lower your tone, if bhai sa got to know about you saying this or you addressing her(Isha) as my bhabhi sa even after his denial, he would punish you...", Avyan said looking around...

"What is this ?? How can he punish his own mother, it's a son's basic responsibility to feed his mother despite of the worst situation he is in, but here, he is snatching the food from her ?? This is a grave sin... I will talk to him", Isha said determinedly, both Avyan and Amruta looked at her shocked, Isha is usually hell afraid of Abhyansh but this time she offered to talk...

"He is that kind of king who doesn't forgive nor forget, he believes in punishments and I'm at fault for defying his orders, so it's fine", Amruta said

"He might be a king, but before that, he is your son and he cannot forget that fact", Isha said adamantly, surprisingly Avyan didn't say a word, he is just in awe of his sister-in-law who is getting ready to fight the BEAST for his mother, but he wanted to see how far will she go, will she be able to utter even a word seeing the BEAST in front of her eyes, thought Avyan.

"Isha, let it be beta, he won't agree, instead punish you more", Amruta said

"Let him ma, but I'm not letting him do this to you, Whatever he did till now might have forgiveness from God but this will not have, a son can never punish his mother like this, this is against my values, I won't let him do this", saying this Isha walked to her husband's office, she is afraid of him, her heart is thudding in fear but she can't let him do that to his mother ever...

"Avyan, go to your brother's office, poor girl is enduring so much every day, yet went to fight for me, I just hope your brother doesn't punish her more", Amruta said worriedly

"Huh, anyways, she is not going to be successful, you know it, so eat well tonight, I'll bring saline for you, the doctor will put it to you if at all you fall ill... this is the reason I tell you, do not defy rules, sometimes I feel how can a son treat his mother like this", Avyan said before walking away...

Amruta sighed to her deeply, the past incidents that turned her son into a BEAST even towards her started making their way to her brain, she shook her head and closed all those thoughts...

Isha entered the office but still, his cabin is far, but before she could walk to it, she heard his tone...

"What are you doing here ??", he asked, she looked here and there to see if there are any cameras... she heard a bang and she understood her BEAST husband is irritated on not hearing the answer... So she quickly walked to his office, and there she saw him working on his laptop seriously, for once she wanted to look at his face, she raised her head and looked at his lips when his voice boomed again...

"Want me to increase your punishment ??", Abhyansh said still looking at his laptop... and she jerked and looked down...

"No, I am here to talk to you about something Maharaj, kindly allow me to talk for a minute", she fumbled with words even thinking about how to talk about it and imagining his reaction, her leftover confidence crumbled, but her determination to protect her mother-in-law at any cost remained tall...

"Go ahead", He said in his cold tone... 

'Don't let his tone intimidate you, don't don't' she prep talked

"Ma..Maharaj, you can't punish ma, it's my fault, not ma sa's, please exempt her from this punishment", Isha pleaded looking down... 

Abhyansh looked at her with his steely face, without letting any emotions out, but he is surprised by her courage... He loved her fear, her taking huge gulps in fear boosted his ego, he knew he won't change his decision, never in his life did he revert the punishment, wouldn't be doing in the future too but he is in the mood to play with her, so he decided to entertain himself looking at her fear...

His brother made his way inside before he could speak anything, he signaled him to sit in front of him... Avyan really had some matters to discuss with his brother but his plan was to meet him the next morning but to check on his sister-in-law on his mother's wish, he is here and Abhyansh knew this very well...

"Why do you think I would listen to you ??", Abhyansh asked in his icy tone that made her fear intensify but she had to speak...

"Because I'm your wife", Isha spoke closing her eyes tightly... Avyan's eyes widened in shock at her bravery... Abhyansh is shocked by her statement but he didn't let his feelings show on his face... He didn't want to agree but hearing 'I'm your wife' from her mouth did feel good, she is someone completely his to hate, to torture, to give hell, he thought...

"I already told you, you are my...", Abhyansh started but she cut him off... and Avyan's eyes would have come out of sockets if that's possible... She dared to cut Abhyansh Singh Ranawat's statement, does she has a death wish ?? Avyan thought...

"I know, I know I'm your slave for life Maharaj, but I'm your wife based on the rituals we followed in our marriage, and my fate is tied to you, and I'm an equal shareholder in your sins, being your wife, I can take the weight of any of your sins but not this, punishing your own mother is a grave sin, I can't be a part of it, so I can't let you do it Maharaj", Isha spoke closing her eyes, surprising herself, she didn't fumble, and she didn't think what she told is what she meant but she did, somewhere in her heart, she accepted the fact that now Abhyansh Singh Rananwat is her husband, and no matter what she had to live with that fact whether she liked it or not...

Abhyansh has nothing to say, and that surprised Avyan, he badly wanted to smile looking at his brother's face but he knew he can't die young so he stifled his smile maintaining a poker face...

"Ask Amruta Singh Ranawat to be here... Right now", he ordered, by hearing his roar, the servants ran to bring Amruta, and hearing his tone, Avyan knew his sister-in-law messed up terribly... Isha sent her final goodbyes to her brother in mind as she knew she would die today bearing his punishment...

'bhai... I am angry with you, but I love you, may god keep you happy always and give you my life that he is snatching from me', she prayed in mind

Amruta ran inside the office and looked worried...

"You can have your food from tomorrow", Abhyansh said, Amruta and Avyan thought they are hallucinating, as they know the BEAST never reverses his punishment... 

Isha smiled widely and jumped at her place hugging her mother-in-law, Avyan smiled looking at his cheerful sister-in-law... Unknown to everyone, Abhyansh kept staring at his wife, this is the first time he is seeing her smile, and he hated himself for liking that smile, she looked extremely gorgeous wearing that smile... Isha realized she is in the Beast's office, so she broke the hug and looked down...

"Thank you Maharaj..." , She said bowing her head in respect...

"You will be bearing that punishment... 6 days, no food", Abhyansh said and Isha nodded looking down... Amruta is worried that how can her daughter-in-law stay hungry for 6 days without eating...

"3 days this week and 3 days next week", Abhyansh said surprising everyone again... He didn't want her to fall ill again, that would halt his punishments on a regular basis, her pain and suffering gave him peace and he didn't want that to disrupt, but a tiny part of his non-existent heart didn't want to starve her for 6 days on a row... He decided to punish her the next day severely to destroy that tiny part of his heart which softened for a second for her... 

"Now get out", he said, both Amruta and Isha scurried away hearing his tone...

"B..Bhai sa, this file...", Avyan is about to start the discussion but Abhyansh interrupted him...

"Your job for coming here is done, now leave", Abhyansh said indicating he knew why he is there...

"Sorry Bhai sa...", Avyan said looking down... 

"The next time, you want to smile at your brother, imagine yourself toothless before doing it", Abhyansh said and Avyan is shocked, he thought he stifled his smile, then how did his brother get to know ?? Huh, damn Abhyansh Singh Ranawat for his intelligence...

Avyan muttered another ' Sorry' and scurried away taking the files...