Raj

I was waiting at the Coimbatore International Airport for an hour after surveying the area without piquing anyone's interest. After ten years, Thooriga, the Heiress of the Harshvardhan Estate is returning to claim her properties as it's her birthday tomorrow.

I left the estate last night and went to a nightclub I always visit. I took the façade of a party animal, an irresponsible head of personal security who spends his night in the club and fucks pretty women. Well, I did get off with hot girls from the club but only after checking details about the Heiress's security.

I sent Thooriga far away to keep her safe. I knew that her life is under danger and within the estate range it is even more dangerous. After a lot of scrutiny I decided to send her to a residential school at Cape Town, I also appointed personnel to keep an eye on her. Keeping her whereabouts safe was more difficult than keeping her safe.

So, I kept on changing her place of stay, even the person who was working for me to look over Thooriga, never knew who was their employer or why they were stalking her. They were instructed to only check on her 24X7 and go for her help when she is in trouble.

Initially, I approached the men to search for a student named Thooriga studying in a particular school or college and stalk her. I never shared any of her old photos or got a new one from them. Also, while sending Thooriga away, I instructed her not to mail any letter to anyone including me. So, it has been ten years since I had seen or heard from Thooriga.

I used the nightclubs to cover what I'm doing to keep Thooriga safe. I always knew that someone had been watching my every action, so I decided to play it that way. Taking up the role of an irresponsible playboy bodyguard attending nightclubs and picking up girls, was an easy thing to get lost in the crowd.

Somewhere in the middle of the night, I used to escape from the club through the back exit unnoticed and posted mail to Thooriga through the post box at the end of the alley that connects to the main road. It has always been one way communication and a couple of times with the instructions, documents and tickets for her next move.

My life was too busy and stressful with the estate management and Thooriga's security. I never had time to look for a real woman, with whom I can fall in love and have a family. But I'm also a man with needs and this nightlife act helped me to release my stress in many different ways.

Now that with Thooriga returning home, I can be a full-time bodyguard rather than spending my nights in the club. Finally, I may also have some time for myself or even find someone special once the management is handed over to the heiress.

My thoughts get interrupted as I feel like someone is hovering behind me, and I turn to get dashed by a girl as we both fall on the floor. My hands feel a soft sponge like a body sprawled on top of me. My nostrils absorb the smell of strawberry and rose.

The girl raises her head, and her right-hand goes near the left side of my face as I hear a grabbing sound of some metal. "Here you are," she says as she sits upon me, and wears her ring.

My eyes meet the dark orbs of hers, and my blood flows downwards as I'm now facing the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Her jet black hair that cascades down her chest that calls for me to grasp them and those curves of her that are sculptured righteously begging for me to caress them.

She is sitting exactly on top of my crotch, and a blush creeps up her cheeks as she feels my body responding under her. Finally, she looks around before getting up from top of me. She extends her hand for me to get up and I take it laughing as I raise up on my feet.

"Seems like we made a show," I tell her.

"Well, yeah," she replies, "But you will make more if you don't adjust your coat."

"Shit," I curse under my breath as I adjust my coat covering my hardness.

"Wanna take care of it?" she asks, looking back at the washroom and me.

It could have been the first thing I would be doing now if Thooriga is not arriving soon, so I say, "Nope, waiting for someone."

"Ohh, wife?"

"Nope, I'm very much single."

"Convenient," she says, winking at me.

I'm not shocked by this girl's advances as I do these things to girls from my high school days.

But I'm in the toughest situation now, with Thooriga's arrival I have to be protecting her and not fucking around.

Before I could respond to her comment, "Tanya! Did you find your ring? What are you talking--" the girl stops her sentence midway as I turn and a smile breaks out on the girl's face "--talking with My Bodyguard."

I looked at the girl who was standing in front of me, and I couldn't believe my eyes. The little girl who I have sent away has now grown up into an adorable woman. She still has those slender features, her short black hair touching her shoulders and her black eyes look back at me.

"Ohh, so, he is the bodyguard mama, you mentioned earlier," Tanya says with stress for the word mama. I never thought that the word uncle could be so kinky hearing from someone else's lips, but it did from hers.

"Heiress, I requested you not to reveal anything about yourself to anyone," I asked her.

"She did just before the flight landed as we both forced her to say about her, at least then," the girl standing next to Thooriga replies to me.

"Well, these two are my friends, this is Tina," Thooriga points out to the girl standing next to her, "and that is Tanya, whom you seem to be acquainted, already, if I'm not wrong," she says and laughs with Tina.

The nagging in my chest finally gets diminished as I find no trace of jealousy in Thooriga's tone while she teases about Tanya's acquaintance with me. I was worried about her childhood crush on me and hoped that sending her away will help her to forget those immature feelings. Now with her casual demeanor, I presume that she had moved on in her life, and I feel like a heavy burden was shed down from my shoulders.

I welcome everyone, and request them to address me as Raj. We move out of the Airport as I call for a cab. The girls were murmuring something among themselves and Thooriga asked me, "What happened to our cars, Raj?"

"For the purpose of your safety we are taking a cab to the estate, Heiress. I left the estate last night and except for my trusted associate security personnel no one knows that you are arriving today," I replied to her.

When the cab arrives, I go to fill the car's trunk with their luggage as Tanya follows to help me, "You are yet to respond to my comment," she states.

"I was going to say it was not as convenient as you think, before knowing you are Thooriga's friend."

"And now? what are you going to say after knowing that I'm Thooriga's friend" she questions me.

I peek over the lid of the trunk to check what Thooriga and Tina are doing, and find them discussing something. I circle my arm around her waist and pull Tanya closer to me. She looks surprised by my immediate action. "Later" I replied with a squeeze on her hip before closing the trunk lid, which was hiding us from the view of Thooriga.

"Heiress, neenga romba neram veliya nika koodathu car kulla poonga," I opened the passenger seat door at the back of the car for her. (Heiress, you shouldn't be standing out long, please get into the car)

Thooriga and Tina get into the car through the door I had opened for them as Tanya gets inside by the door opened by the cab driver. I take the passenger seat at the front, and we start our journey towards Harshvardhan Estate.

On our way to the estate, again Tanya murmurs something in Thooriga's ear, and Thooriga shakes her head in unbelievable action. Tanya's eyes lock with mine in the rear view mirror as she settles back and I wonder what she could have said to Thooriga for her to react like that.

After a couple of minutes, Thooriga asks me about the estate business, and I reply, "Ellam nalla poitu iruku, unga athai, mama, chithappa ellam nalla manage pani correct ah report paniduranga." (Everything is going great with your uncles and aunt managing the estate and reporting it to me on time.)

Though, I'm answering Thooriga my eyes were following Tanya via rearview mirror, who is pushing a strand of hair behind her ear, and with the other hand typing something in her mobile. Being Thooriga's friend she must be around the same age as Thooriga.

I never cared about the age of women I have been with. It's just fine for me if the girl is of a legal age and willing. I had very few casual flings and a lot of one night stands but never had a long term relationship, mainly not wanting to let my guard down and risk the Heiress's safety..

Tanya is of legal age and willing, though she is of Thooriga's age, when it comes to their body type there is no match between them. Thooriga is still the same slim and adorable girl whereas Tanya is all grown up with voluptuous curves.

Looking at her face she reminds me of someone who I couldn't exactly place but her full plum lips want me to pull her to me and kiss them holding that heart-shaped face. I want to kiss her slender neck and nib it until her pulse nerve beats hard against my lips.

Thooriga was asking me something, and when I didn't reply she snapped her finger near my ear, that wakes me away from my desirous thoughts for her friend. Tanya notices me watching her in the rearview mirror and winks at me when I turn to ask Thooriga what she asked.

"I asked you, how is the case of the bomb blast going? Did anyone was caught or at least you guys or the police were able to find any clue regarding the bomb blast?" Thooriga asks.

My face turns dark, "No heiress, the investigation is still going on, it was for sure someone from the family," I reply, "but, taking care of you, keeping you safely away and checking on your safety has kept me busy. Now that you have returned I can check on it deeper."

"Ohh" is the only word that I get from Thooriga.

"So, you are single as you are busy with these works?" Tanya asks me, quickering her eyebrows and a mischievous smile playing around the curve of her lips.

"Yes, no time for finding a perfect woman to love and get settled" I replied looking back at her.

A switch flips inside my soul as we both look at each other for a while until I sit straight and look front. The car arrives at the entrance of the estate and securities check the car thoroughly. When it enters inside, starting towards the Harshvardhan mansion, all three start to look around, "Wow" Thooriga exclaims as Tanya looks at her shockingly.

"Yes, it's amazing," Tina follows Thooriga gaze looking around the path they are traveling.

I look at Thooriga and then Tanya who hasn't said anything after entering the premises of the estate. She looks around and when her eyes land on me, she says, "I'm speechless, it's too beautiful."

"Heiress, your friends are looking at the estate for the first time, so they are astonished. But you were born and grew up here, I'm surprised that you too feel the same as them," I ask her, confused, looking at her awestruck expression.

"That's...that's just, it has been ten years, if you notice, I'm struggling to speak in Tamil, and I said wow because the estate is still maintained the same," Thooriga replies with a smile.

"Ok," I say as I turn in front and my security sense peaks up again. Thooriga has the same black hair as her childhood one, but the shades of her eye color have changed a little. Majority of Indians have black hair and eyes unless they dye their hair with different colours, but hers is not the same as her childhood and I haven't received any reports regarding her usage of contact lens.

It was wrong doubting Thooriga's identity but doubting whether she is Thooriga is not wrong. Eyes color might vary with the light, it happens for a few, but Thooriga is acting distant to me as she is seeing me for the first time. I want to give her the benefit of doubt for her behaviour as she stayed far away from all of us and moved on from her childhood crush on me.

Now I have a feeling that not sharing pictures of her was a wrong decision while keeping tabs on her. I hope that the girl sitting in the car is indeed Thooriga, and I have not messed up anything. If she is not her and Thooriga is in some danger, then I won't be able to forgive myself.