The car arrives at the entrance of the mansion, "No one is there to welcome...us," Tanya wonders.

"Remember? I didn't inform anyone," Raj responds as he nodded his head to a few people wearing dress up pants and shirts with a waistcoat. They reach the car's trunk and start unloading our bags.

"Ivaanga Sabarish, Jagan, ennoda assistants," Raj introduces two men in their twenties to Thooriga and her friends. (This is Sabarish and Jagan, my immediate assistants).

Thooriga nods at them as they both give her a bow salute and Sabarish eyes holds Thooriga's for extra seconds. Raj clears his throat and glares at Sabarish, "Let's get inside, Heiress. I'll show you your suite. The servants will bring your luggage",

Raj asks the girls to follow the two bodyguards as he walks behind the girls. Tanya looks back at him and sways her hips a little more. They reach in front of a massive double door as Sabarish and Jagan push open each of the doors revealing a living room with an office room setup on the right, a normal single door to the left and another massive double door in front of them.

"This will be my place of work, and this will be my bedroom," Raj explains, pointing out the small door.

"So you are gonna stay here always?" Tanya asks him with a cheesy smile.

"Yes. For the safety of Heiress, I'll always be here, and two more guards will be surveying outside the suite on rotational shifts," he replies as he opens the second massive door in front of them.

When they enter, they find two sets of the couch facing each other and a coffee table in the middle of them. To their left, there is a small dining table with four chairs and TV placed on the left wall.

"This will be your lounging room, Heiress," Raj says, opening the third door that reveals a massive bedroom with a king size bed in front of them.

All three look in awe, "It seems more like a queen's chamber than Thooriga's bedroom," Tina says.

"Exactly, she is the queen of this Harshvardhan estate," Raj says and walks past them to open the door to our left, "This is a walk-in closet which will lead to the bathroom, this is the only place you will have privacy without CCTV cameras, Heiress."

"What? CCTV camera?" Tanya asks with a shocked expression.

"Again, for her safety and also, give me an hour, I have asked the housekeeping to arrange the adjacent rooms for both of you," he says looking at Tanya and Tina.

We three look at him shocked, "We three were together in the same room for four years," Tanya says.

"I can understand that, but the heiress's safety is my priority then you three friends staying together," saying it, he leaves the room closing the door behind him.

Tanya is irritated and wants to go behind him, but she controls herself by just imitating as strangling him and says, "He can't say with whom I have to stay or not."

"If you go behind him to fight for it, he will find out that you are not Tanya but the real Thooriga," Tina says.

Thooriga

I turn towards them, and all three of us laugh and have a group hug. "Thank God and thanks to our similarity with our hair and eyes colour, he easily bought that you are Thooriga," I say to the real Tanya.

Even during our grad school days many thought we both were fraternal twins with our togetherness and similarity in facial features.

"How long are we gonna do this?" Tanya asks me.

"Hmm. My favorite line...'until the time comes'," I tell her.

"Huff," both signs.

They hear a knock on the door and Tanya asks who, pretending to be me, and lets them in when they say they are the servants who came to deliver our luggage. We pick our bags, and I rummage my bag for my mobile. I found my mobile, but my passport which was in the same section is missing.

"Are you looking for this, Tanya?" Raj's voice cuts through my tension and I turn to find him standing at the door of my bedroom, "Sorry, not Tanya...Heiress Thooriga."

I close my eyes as Raj enters the room and places the passport near the bedside table. I wanted to reveal my identity to him once he had fallen for me. But now it's too early, all my plans failed, as he would never accept me.

"Raj oru nimisham naan solrathu keelu," I followed Raj out of the room. (Raj, just listen)

"Wow, Unmaiyana Thooriga ku Thamizh nalla varumo? Neenga vera enna solla vendiyathu iruku? Unaga passport la etho thapa print ayiduchu na?" he asked me. (So, the real Thooriga can speak fluent Thamizh? What is there to listen to? That there was a mistake in your passport?)

"Illa, naan Thooriga thaan aana unakku kalyanam agiducha na therinjika thaan naan appadi nadichen" (No, I agree that I'm Thooriga, I just wanted to know whether you are still single or married.)

"Enaku kalyanam agiducha illaya nu therinju neenga ena panna poorenga? Atha neenga neerave keetu irukalam, ippadi nadikaama." (Why is that any of your concern? Whether I'm married or single. And you could have directly asked me instead of lying about your identity.)

"Enaku athu mukiyam thaan. Yen nu theriyatha mathiri nadikatha. Naan neera keetu iruntha nee kandipa poi soli irupa" (Of course, it's my concern, and you don't act like you don't know why. Also, if I directly asked you as Thooriga about your marital status, you might have easily lied to me.)

"So, you chose to act like some random girl in the airport who is searching for her ring," Raj asks.

Thooriga walks closer to him "And you liked the girl who fell and sat on top of you," I retorted back.

"I thought you were Tanya."

I snort, "When I felt your boner, I was just a girl who accidentally fell on you. You neither knew my name nor that I might be someone you know".

"Peecha maathatenga, neenga yen aalmaratam pannenga nu thaan naan keeten" (Don't change the topic, Heiress, my question is why did you lie about your identity.)

"Naan onnum peecha maathala neethaan keetathaiye thirupi thirupi keetutu iruka. Unaku kalyanam agiducha nu therinjikavum naan vera oru ponna iruntha nee eppadi nadanthukura nu therinjika thaan naan nadichen" (I'm not changing the topic, but you are, by asking the same question repeatedly after I have answered it. I lied to you to know about your marital status and to find how you react to me if I'm a random girl and not as Thooriga.)

"Neenga enna pesureenga nu ungaluku puriyutha?" Raj asks her. (Do you know what you are talking about?)

"Thamizh la thaan pesuren. Yen unaku purilaya?" (I'm talking in tamil only, can't you understand)

Raj gets frustrated, "Vilayada theega" (Don't play with me)

"Naan enna pesuren nu enaku theriyum. I'm talking about our attraction to each other as two grown up adults."(I know what am I talking about)

"You are the heiress, and I'm your bodyguard who was your mother's bodyguard too. Top of all, Your father treated me like his friend and I'm twelve years older than you," he says.

"Oh really, where was the age gap when you grabbed my waist even after knowing that I'm Thooriga's friend who is probably her age. Also, you are my dad's friend who is fourteen years younger to him and not my biological uncle or anything, My Bodyguard mama," I reply.

He goes silent for a moment and finally braces himself and asks, "Seri ippo ungaluku ena veenum?" (What do you want now?)

I'm so irritated by his sudden change of topic, I cross my hands across my chest and say, "En friends en kooda en room la thanganum" (I want my friends to stay with me in my room.)

"Not happening, they will stay in the adjacent rooms. It's for their safety too," he replies, "If someone breaks in it will be easy to save one then three and I don't think you will like your friends to get hurt in the process."

That gets to me. He does have a point, "Ok, fine," I say and stands there looking at him.

"Vera ethachum venuma?," he asks me. (Anything else you want?)

"Just this," I say as I wrap my fingers around his jacket lapel, pulling him down to meet my lips with his before he could react. Raj goes stiff as my lips press firmly against his.

When Raj was shouting in a rage all I wanted to do was kiss him, and I'm finally doing it. I pulled back to look at him, his face was in utter shock, and confusion, also his eyes were dark. I leave his jacket and turn toward my room to find both of my friends standing there with their mouths hanging open.

Laughing I walk towards them but stop midway turning my head to my right, "Enaku venumratha adaiya enaku theriyum," I say as I walk to my room snapping my finger on my friend's face and they follow me. (Raj, I know how to get my things)

I lay on the bed facing the ceiling as Tanya and Tina lie on either side of me. "So..." Tanya starts.

"So?" I repeat as a question.

"You finally got your first kiss," Tina finishes.

"Yep," I say and close my face with my hands, "OMG, that moment was the most cherished moment of my life. I never wanted it to end, but also I was afraid that he might push me away, so I pulled myself back sooner."

Tanya turns towards me and leans herself with her elbow as she says, "I just hope, you stay happy in this and things don't get backfired."

"I too feel the same, because I can't bear him hating me, I know, and I can feel how much he wanted me from the moment he saw me at the airport. But the only stopping factor for him is that I'm the heiress and his mentor's daughter. If it is like I'm some random girl or even a friend of mine he won't mind expressing his feelings," I tell them.

"You should have seen his face when he came to give your passport, he is hurt now, and he is probably dying of guilt and regret for lusting on you," Tina says.

"Yeah, in one way it is good that he came to know that I'm Thooriga. When I kissed him, he knew that it was me, and if anything is going to happen in future, he will know who he is, and he won't be kept in the darkness. If he came to know after anything happened between us, he would have hated me more for acting to him." I say as I sit up.

"Don't worry, hon, everything will change, you are not just fantasizing about him. You want him to be the love of your life," Tanya says.

"He is the love of my life," I say as I fiddle with my dress.

"Soon he will understand that," Tanya says.

We hear a knock at the door, and I expect it must be Raj and go to check it but I find Sabarish standing there