Chapter 2: At the Wedding

8 Hours Ago:

“Honey, just one more day and you'll be mine forever, after this no one will ever snatch you from me”

“Promise?” asked Maya

“Swear on you my love… promise” swore Tazz , " can I come and kiss my princess goodnight?" Tazz tried his luck, as per tradition the bride and groom could not meet each other till the wedding now , Tazz couldn't wait anymore to hold his bride .

"Tazz no, it's just a few more hours , mom will be annoyed if we break any rule and I don't want any ill luck to befall upon us , so , off you go to bed and lemme have my beauty sleep ," Maya smiled as she felt warm in his love.

 "Ok my lady, as you wish , Ill send the car to fetch you and your sister from the hotel, sleep now and dream about me.. till we meet again”

Maya was ecstatic and wanted to talk more, “well, we could speak some more, after all this is our last night as lovers, God only knows how my life will change after tomorrow.”

“Hey, what do you mean your life will change?” he asked

She sighed before replying, “It is said that no matter how much your husband loved you before marriage, they all change after marriage, they want their wives to cook for them, clean for them, do the laundry, have babies, then cook, clean and wash for the babies too , the romance flies out of the window and ...,” she blabbered on.

“OMG, woman, stop!” he cut her mid sentence, “let me clear a few things to you right away, first I don’t want you to cook, clean or wash.... neither for me , nor for our babies. Secondly, our love will stay, Ill never allow it to fly out of the window. Thirdly, I want to make you my wife as I love you and always will, I want to protect you and fulfil your dreams for you... for us. I no more want us to be You and Me, I want to become US ....and last but not the least.. and mark my words, I will Never... NEVER ever change, marriage or no marriage, I will always love you the most. Over and above all this, do not forget that you are marrying Tazz Jindal, the ‘to be Head’ of the Jindal empire soon. You are the next queen and a queen does not have to wash, you only have to bother about loving me and being loved.”

Maya’s vision blurred as her eyes stung with tears, she couldn’t believe that Gods had been so kind to her.. to have blessed her with the best man on this earth who loved her so much. “Oh Tazz!, I need a hug, right now, pleaseeeee,”, she pleaded like a kid.

“Much as I need it too, I think allowing you your beauty sleep is a better idea for now, so that tomorrow your beauty mesmerises me, so much so that I should become the centre of envy in entire city of Udaipur.” He thought about how beautiful she was, her gorgeous wavy long black tresses, her petite frame, fair and silky skin and her small beautiful face, “Oh, how I love her,” he snapped back from his thoughts, “by the way where’s my sister in law to be,” he asked

“She stepped out for a stroll in the garden of the hotel, she loved this place , well, I’m just glad that you will finally get to meet her.” she was elated that at least her little sister could make in time for her wedding, she had applied for leaves at her company in Singapore on time.

“I’m m happy too that I’ll finally meet her. It would be interesting to see your twin” then Tazz sobered up , “ Maya, we are finally  getting married tomorrow, I know we had to go through a lot, but now things are different, you are mine and like it or not, you are tied to me for life” he chuckled, “Now I want you to go to bed, I am dying to see you tomorrow.”

Maya was silent,  “Me too, see you tomorrow, cant wait to be in your arms” ” Maya was ecstatic, “ Tazz”

“Hmm”, “I love you, I love you lots, I love you tons and I love you infinitely, goodnight”

“Ditto my girl, Goodnight”

Maya hung up , sighed and turned around , she froze as she came face to face with a man leering at her, a cunning smile on his face.

Tazz woke up to a perfect weather, all happy and excited. The day was filled with many promises.

“Tazz, how long are you going to take, you are the groom not the bride, remember” teased his mom, she knew how happy her son was , though she’d been skeptical of this wedding.. she never really liked Maya and felt that Tazz deserved a better partner in terms of status as well as beauty, after all he was the elder son of the richest Jindal family  , many hi profile families would give an arm and a leg to get their daughters married to him, yet, here he was .. Marrying a girl with no trace of any lineage “Mom” Tazz broke her chain of thoughts, “thank you for doing this” Taz knew how difficult it was for him to convince his mom, thankfully she gave in, “As long as you are happy son, I am sure Maya is quite something, she has your heart wrapped around her little finger, I am happy that you both love each other, all I want now is to see some cute chubby grand kids , now lets get going or we’ll be late” She placed the floral turban on his head to cover his face.

His father Jairaj Jindal, had already reached the venue before time along with Tazz’s grandmother, His younger brother Tejraj Jindal, younger brother Anuj, 2 sisters Sim, Naina and Tejraj’s son Samrat along with other relatives. The biggies of the royal city of Udaipur were present at the wedding, several guests from top business families, prominent politicians, actors and important dignitaries had all taken their time off to be a part of this royal wedding of the Jindal Family. International artists like pop singers and few Hollywood stars were specially flown in to perform as well as be a part of this event.

Name who ever from the Creme de la creme social circuit and they were present at the wedding. It was a night to be remembered. Reporters from various national / international new channels were present to cover the wedding of India’s richest Business tycoon’s elder son.

Tazz felt the weather change as he stepped out of the car at the venue, the clouds turned grey, accompanied with mild thundering , suddenly it began to drizzle, a soft smile played on his lips as he thought about Maya and her wishes coming true, she always found rains romantic and wanted to marry during rains, this wasn’t monsoon time but yet it showered, “maybe God’s loved Maya too” he thought and proceeded into palace with his mom.

There were two elephants decked up royally to welcome the guests, the palace had a small floating Island in the midst where the wedding was to take place, the island was surrounded by clear blue water which was decorated with lotus, marigolds and red roses, amongst them were floating diyas (tiny lighted lamps) , the décor of the palace was splendid and royally adorned with the choicest flowers imported from various countries… anyone who saw it thought of it as the most expensive wedding to go down in the history of palace weddings.

International acrobat artists dressed as fairies were flying up high and showered flowers on guests every now and then, it all looked like a King was truly getting married to his most beautiful queen.

While people could not get enough of their surroundings, there was commotion at the entrance, musical instruments like Dhol and Shehnai began to play aloud, “the bride’s here” “wow finally we get to see who has stolen the heart of this king” amongst the crowd were many young girls who aspired to be the daughter in law to this family, the atmosphere was a heavy cocktail of jealousy mixed with happiness.

A huge carriage scurried into the palace, the bride was being carried in it.