Rajasthan, India. It was a very dark night, more dark than an usual night. Stars were shining in the night sky like some lights in a dark room but still there was some gloominess present in the atmosphere like something bad was about to happen. All the birds, animals and creatures were back to their homes, their safe places. The night was getting darker and more darker. Silence started to erupt in the atmosphere, utter silence only the sounds of crickets chirping could be heard from somewhere away, hiding in the corners. Time was passing slowly and slowly like it was trying to avoid any untoward incident. The weather usually stays warm but that day it was a chilly night somehow. There was a big haveli much beautiful and captivating than a modern mansion. The lights were off due to the night time and everyone was sleeping except some local guards hired for guarding the haveli's entrance. The guards were walking left to right and vice versa but suddenly stopped hearing something. Th
The next morning, everyone was up and the haveli was in chaos because Inaayat used to wake up early and do the chores which she assigned for but today when everyone woke up they didn't see their works done. Everyone started to call for Inaayat in their angry and loud voices scaring the timid girl who was trying to complete her morning routine fast. After last night when she fell into unconsciousness, she woke up late and before she could even understand she knew she was late. She started doing her morning routine fast and stitched the pieces of her inner back not having any other option. She wore another fresh pair of clothes above them which were also stitched from many places and were loose at her small body. Covering herself with her dupatta(scarf) she started limping to the other side of the haveli where the Thakurs live. She immediately entered the main hall where all the servants were standing in a line getting scold but the Bade Thakur, the head of the family. Before she cou
It was again a very pleasant morning for everyone but except for Inaayat because she and pleasant can't be in a same line. When early morning she woke up, no one was in the haveli, so as usual she did all of the chores and when it was about the time for everyone's waking up she started preparing breakfast until the maids join her. All the members of the Thakur family came downstairs and started having their breakfast together at the dining table. Suddenly Thakurain's phone rang and she received it. She started talking with the person on the other side of the line and the more she was talking the more her smile got wider."Hello." she greeted the person on the other side with a small smile. "Hello maa." someone's reply came from the other side of the call. She gave the members present there a knowing look and again spoke. (Translation: Hello mother.)"Kaisa hai tu?" was the first thing she asked because only she could understand the pain of a mother who's only son is living far away
The whole haveli was in chaos now everyone was running here and there leaving a confused Inaayat behind. She didn't know what was happening because no one bothered to tell her but she was happy that the chaos were not for her. She woke up early and did her with without any clumsiness. Her curious gaze was looking at everyone but what she wanted to know was why everyone is looking so happy. As she standing in a corner and observing everyone, Thakurain approached her. She immediately cascaded her eyes down in fear."Aye ladki, ab sab ko kya aise dekhti hi rahegi? Bohot kaam pada hai haveli mein. Jaa ke chote Thakur ka kamra saaf kar." she ordered her while a little confusion appeared at Inaayat's face. (Translation: Hey girl, will you keep looking at everyone like this? There is a lot of work to be done in the mansion. Go and clean Chote Thakur's room.)Because as far as she knew chote Thakur's room was closed for years because he went somewhere suddenly and then no one entered his ro
Urvashi brought Dadi to the living room because she was free after her college, so the Thakurain asked her to spend sometime with Dadi who used to sit alone in her room whole day. Dadi was looking at every servant who was working in the living room or entering inside the haveli. While Urvashi was busy using her phone. As sometimes passed Thakur Abhinendra Singh entered inside the haveli and saw Dadi and Urvashi in the hall. He didn't give any glance to Urvashi but touched Dadi's feet out of respect. Urvashi gave him a single glance and again went back to scrolling in her phone again. "Jeete raho beta, sada sukhi raho aur khoob tarakki karo." Dadi gave him her blessings and he sat on the couch adjacent to her. (Translation: May you live long, son, always be happy, and progress well.) His legs spread on the couch like a king, as if he owns the place. No matter what's the place or time he never forgets to show his arrogance and authority. "Bade Thakur kahan hai?" he asked Da
As soon as the men who were sitting on the couches saw his hard face they recognized him and stood up from their places immediately. His carribean blue piercing eyes staring in their souls while his sharp jawline added more to his Greek God beauty. His stoic and cold expressions not leaving any chance of enhancing his features. His messy hair sleeked back into perfect while the slight dimple at his cheek was making his look more intimidating. His subtle beard and chiseled chest were not any lesser in enhancing his dark aura. He stood in front of them silently which made them to die already under his heated gaze. "Cá bhfuil na drugaí?" he asked in his thick and dark voice which made a shiver to ran down everyone's spine present there. (Translation: Where are the drugs?) After hearing him mentioning of the same drug that the man who was currently dead, inhaling made them tremble in fear and no one dared to answer his question. But little did they knew, he was very short of pati
Flashback Many footsteps were echoing in the silent and abandoned alleyway. Heavy footsteps were running towards a certain direction but soon divided into different ways like trying to find someone. Soon some men came into the vision because of the street light after emerging from the dark alleyway. An heavily injured man came running from the shadows and hide behind the huge garbage box in the alley. His breathing was shallow and short, his arms and chest had deep cuts and were bleeding so hard. He hissed and took the phone out of his pants pocket which was broken by now. But he decided to try his luck. He turned his broken phone on and dialed one of his men number and after a single ring it got received. Some shuffling voices came from the other side and then a clear manly voice came. "Dia duit Boss? Boss an bhfuil tú ann?" his man's panicked voice came earning a groan from him. (Translation: Hello boss? Boss are you there?) "Tá mé sa alleyway." he whispered in his pa
Rajasthan, India. Finally the day came when Arjun and Ryker were about to come India. Each and every servant in the haveli was busy doing the preparations of their welcome. Arjun had informed Sudha about Ryker arrival which made the Thakur family double excited of meeting a foreigner who was a friend of Arjun and meeting Arjun too after whole five years. Many traditional Indian dishes were being prepared for Arjun and his friend whom they don't know anything about yet. Sudha was yelling and scolding everyone every now and then not giving any chance to do mistakes. Dadi and Urvashi were already being ready to look presentable in front of Arjun's new friend. While Bade Thakur was waiting for his son's arrival soon. Coming to Inaayat the poor girl was assigned to clean the guest room for the new guest of the Thakur family and the friend of Arjun. Guess room was also locked from a long time because they recently didn't have any guest who stayed back so she had to start everything fr
They both came out of the store and buy this time she didn't buy a single thing. He knew her inner turmoil and didn't force her. Then he decided to take at footwear store and she silently followed him. They entered inside and saw so many types of classy and beautiful footwear. She silently looked at the footwear while the sales man welcomed them. "Aaiye sir and mam, please baithiye." He said offering them to sit on the couch there and they both sat on it. (Translation: Come sir and mam, please have a seat.) "Bataiye kya dikhaun aapko?" He asked them and Inaayat immediately looked at him completely dependent on him to speak for her like a child looking at her father. (Translation: Tell me, what should I show you?) "Aap bataiye aap ko konsi wali sandal acchi lag rahi hain wo wahi wali aap ke liye nikal denge." He whispered into her ear so that the sales man couldn't hear him speaking their native language. (Translation: You tell me which sandals you like and I will pick out those
Ryker and Inaayat were in the car heading to the mall but he was intentionally driving the car slow so that she could see everything around her which she was already watching and couldn't help but be amused. She has never seen so many people walking on the streets, some chatting, some fighting, some driving vehicles and children coming back from school. It was all new for her and she was giggling looking at them every now and then. Ryker tried many times to not to look at her but he also couldn't stop himself from looking at her innocent face, admiring her. He didn't know how he will be able to leave her and go back to his country when the time will come because it was surely he wouldn't take her with him to that dangerous territory of his. He can protect her with all his life but he knew she didn't deserve that life being protected and live in fear that she can die anytime. He shook his head shrugging the thoughts away and heard her giggling again. He decided that till he isn't goi
She slowly trailed her gaze back and gasped loudly looking at the unpredictable incident that happened. The hem of her kurti (Indian outfit which was reaching till her mid thigh) was stuck in the sharp edge of the steel stand on which her clothes were hanged to sundry. She immediately pulled the hem of her kurti out from the sharp edge revealing the torn, shredded cloth which can't be sewed anymore. She had already sewed her clothes enough that they had no more places left to sew. Ryker stood up and walked towards her watching her standing at her place without any reaction while she was busy grieving on her torn kurti and thinking one more outfit was eliminated from her torn and old clothes. Ryker saw her standing while holding the torn part of her cloth lost in her own thoughts. He saw the kurti was torn so much that it can't be worn by her anymore. He has always noticed her wearing sewed clothes with small patches of another material of cloth attached to them to make them usabl
A few days passed and Inaayat still wasn't able to start her studies because Arjun was busy in cracking an important deal and due to that he was having so many conference meetings with the employees of his company and the other company who was ready to become his company's alley. So, Ryker chose not to disturb him for a few days until his deal got cracked and he himself didn't try to reach her after swearing to stay away from her as much as possible. They were back to the same terms: him ignoring her existence and her confused as hell that why he wasn't talking to her much. She was sitting at the bed admiring him from afar. All day she has nothing to do which was new to her because she has always been the busiest person in the haveli and now she has absolutely no work to do, thanks to Ryker. She has started to notice his habits more often and one of them she hates was smoking. She doesn't know what dangerous and life-threatening effect it causes to him but she was curious what hap
After a few hours passed, Ryker felt his sleep slipping away. He opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling blankly not knowing what to do when people wake up from a peaceful sleep because he never experienced one until today. As soon as his senses came back he felt a weight at his forehead. He immediately lifted his hand and touched the thing to feel a face soft which turned him alert and he tried to sit up immediately but found a hand at his chest. When he moved his gaze at the hand he found his earring in the ring finger and he recognised it as Inaayat's hand without thinking twice. He turned confused that what she was doing there instead of the bed. He carefully sat up not wanting to wake her up and saw her sitting on the floor while her head on the couch which was at his forehead a second ago. He didn't understand a thing but the fact that her body must be feeling pain in that uncomfortable position. He stood up from the couch and bent down to wake her up but it will break her
It was very dark everywhere and not even a single thing could be seen. Only ragged breathing of someone could be heard in the dark crystal clearly. The person who was standing in the dark, scared and alerted trying to calm himself down but the fear didn't let him. The fear of someone attacking at them or worse touching them. They gulped again and again wanting the fear of the people around them to fade away which was not possible. Soon a thud sound came followed by a whimper, it sounded boyish. The boy standing in the dark tried to look around himself for who was there but the dark vision was not helping him at all. Some footsteps started coming closer to him which he could clearly identify due to his sharp instincts. He heard the footsteps clearly and understood five people had entered the room. He could feel them coming closer to him. His bare body felt chills in the closed room. He was just in her inner standing at a table in a dark room, that's all he knew. He didn't know where
"Kisi ne kuch kaha aap se?" He asked her softly forgetting all of his anger and again a tear rolled down her eye twisting something inside him. (Translation: Did someone say anything to you?) "Bataiye bacche, kisi ne kuch kaha aap se?" He questioned her again and waited patiently for her reply. She slowly shook her head negative. (Translation: Tell me kid, did someone say anything to you?) "To phir kya hua? Kyun ro rahi hain aap?" He asked her to be genuinely concerned and confused. (Translation: Then what happened? Why are you crying?) "A-A-Aap kahan chale gaye the? Aur aap ne subah se hamse baat nahi ki par unse ki." She complained referring to Urvashi. (Translation: W-W-Where did you go? And you haven't talked to me since morning but you did to her.) She didn't know why she felt bad when he was sitting with Urvashi. She didn't know but her poor felt jealous due to his lack of attention on her. She saw Urvashi scooting closer to him and after that she didn't see furth
A few days passed in a blur and Ryker was the same, he was adamant to avoid interacting with Inaayat after that confrontation with Arjun. He couldn't drag her into the hell where he's surviving day by day. He couldn't make her meet with other monsters when she just got saved from one so it's better to stay from her according to him. He stays is room working on his laptop so she also doesn't care to disturb him. She keeps looking at him working on his laptop like he is some fascinating mannequin and she never gets bored of that. The more she looks at him, the more she have noticed all of his small features like when he types something on his laptop hai fingers work fast even if his gaze is not at the keys or screen, when he gets something new information he sighs and close his eyes for a millisecond before continuing again. When his deal or something gets correct or successful he touches his left ear where his earring was earlier. When he drinks water he takes a look at her but she
Ryker was walking back to his room lost in his own thoughts. Didn't he slide his earring in Inaayat's finger to save her from that bastard and the humiliating situation? Didn't he swear to never let himself attach to anyone? Didn't he just save that girl only? Then why when Arjun asked him to set her free he felt something twisting inside himself.Wasn't he intending to do that? Isn't it the only right thing for her and himself? She can't enter the hell he lives in and meets the beast he is, she can't live under threats and danger and for that he had to let her go someday and return back to his world from where he came then why the idea of never meeting her again didn't seem well with him.He has to keep himself away from her, maintaining a proper distance. He has to be her protector and provider but can't be her lover. She doesn't deserve him, she doesn't deserve the beast inside him, she doesn't deserve the broken man inside him, she doesn't deserve the mafia boss inside him, more l