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
She giggled hearing him because it was the first genuine compliment of her life. Even if Arjun has complimented her so many times when they were kids but it was coming from a friend and it was different from the compliment which was coming from Ryker. She felt so happy and completed after getting complimented by him. She twirled in front of the mirror admiring her new look not getting enough of it. "Ab chalein bahar?" He asked her because it was time for breakfast so she turned to look at him and silently nodded in approval. (Translation: Let's go out now?) He waited for her to walk out of the room first and then he followed her from behind. As he was locking the door from outside Arjun also came out of his room. He saw Inaayat and stilled for a moment because it was the first for him too, to see her dressed up with all the accessories. His feet walked towards her automatically with a mesmerized smile on his face. "Arre Inu tum to aaj bohot hi sundar lag rahi ho." Arjun compli
The next day, it was early morning and Ryker was as usual sitting on the couch and taking glances at Inaayat's sleeping figure from time to time while working on his laptop. Staying far away from his territory, his country is a bit difficult for him because he had to keep track of everything via the internet and the lack of his presence in his country is giving people a little freedom of doing whatever they want. Although his men were trying to keep the situations under control but not being the boss aka him there, other mafia are constantly conspiring to attack his mafia and conquer the territory of Ireland which was impossible in his presence. His presence and dominating aura alone make people shit themselves that's why he has to work while night on instructing his men to continue spreading the terror there no matter what it takes. If there was any other situation he would have left it no matter how important it would be for him but leaving Inaayat alone was not something he wa
On the other hand, Ryker came inside his room with Inaayat and closed the door from inside while Inaayat looked at him silently with tears pooling her eyes. He sighed and again that feeling started looming in his mind that his world is not made for her- the innocent soul. Just the promise ritual of their mafia terrified the poor soul then how will she react to the other dangerous and twisted things. He made her sit on the bed and knelt down in front of her. His rough palm automatically inched near to her cheeks and he gently wiped her tears with his rough and calloused fingers. His rough hands felt so tough on her rosy, soft and flawless cheeks. Her nose turned red and a sob broke out of her lips. She tried to say something about the blood thing but nothing came out of her mouth because that incident was out of her thoughts. "Shant ho jaiye, bacche. Kuch nahi hua hai." Ryker tried to console her even if he didn't know how to. (Translation: Calm down, kid. Nothing happened.) "W-Wo
It was evening time and the sky almost turned orange and yellow shade looking so ethereal that everyone had to stop and capture the beauty of the sky in their mobile phones. The birds were returning back to their respective shelters but someone was coming to a whole different and new place after leaving their home. They didn't know how they would be between new people with foreign languages and ethics. Soon a plane landed at the land of India carrying so many foreigners in it and among them there was that one person also who had a motive of coming there, not as a tourist but at work. The passengers started getting down the plane so did that person and after completing all the formalities and fetching their bags, they started walking out of the airport. Whoever was looking at that woman was not able to move their gaze away for her, either male or female. Everyone was mesmerized by her unbeatable beauty and classy fashion sense. She was looking like a model straight out of the GQ or
"In logon ne pareshan kiya kya aap ko?" Ryker asked her in such a low tone that only she could hear. (Translation: Did these people bother you?) "H-Humne chori nahi ki. Aap kahan chale gaye the hum darr gaye the?" She said then a sob broke out of her lips. (Translation: I-I did not steal. Where did you go? I was scared.) She just wanted to hide herself in him but didn't know about hugs so she stuck to his chest holding his shirt tightly in her fists. Ryker clenched his jaw hard thinking how scared she was feeling when they were accusing and assaulting her so once again his blood boiled and he whispered in her ear. "Aap ko darne ki koi zaroorat nahi hai, bacche. Main aa gaya hoon naa ab dekhiye main kaise in sab ko saza deta hoon aap ko pareshan karne ke liye." Ryker said taking her fists away from his shirt and turned around to the people who were already looking at the scene unfolding. (Translation: You don't have to be afraid, kid. I have come now, now see how I punish them
Ryker left that jewellery store and straightly went to the first store where he visited with Inaayat and his men were already waiting for him there. They greeted him in their native language with respect to which he firmly nodded and entered inside the store with them following behind. Seeing an influential man who had so many guards behind him a sales girl immediately came running to him to assist. But he didn't even acknowledge her presence while she was fixing her appearance just to catch that carribbean blue eyed man's attention. He straightly went to the clothes section where Inaayat went to look for clothes and due to his sharp instincts he knew which one she was looking for and which one she liked the most. The girl also came jogging behind her not able to match his long strides. Her smile which was constantly there since he entered the store started to falter when the latter didn't even glance at her. She saw his gaze fixed on the clothes in front of him so she decided to ask
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