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Jodha meets his gaze. “Then perhaps you should ask yourself, Jalal, why anyone from Amer would want you dead now. When we are at the peak of our alliance. When I have given you my heart as hostage.”
Jodha does not take the letter to Akbar immediately. Instead, she goes to the imperial library, where Akbar burns the midnight oil studying statecraft. She places the letter before him without a word. jodha akbar episode 251
“You humiliated me in there,” he says softly. Jodha meets his gaze
The scene shifts to the main durbar. The hall is packed. Nobles whisper like serpents in a basket. Maham Anga has strategically placed her loyalists—Adham Khan’s shadow looms large. She has also summoned the royal physician, who testifies that the poison’s origin is indisputably Amer. When I have given you my heart as hostage
“The boy has chosen his queen over his mother. Very well. Let him learn that love is a sharper poison than any herb from Amer.”
