A 400-year-old haveli. A billionaire who wants to sell it. And the woman who was born to protect it.
Thakur Abhinav Kumar Anand is the Anand empire’s golden heir. Commanding. Controlled. Untouchable. The Dubai-based billionaire has built his world on one rule. He decides. Everything else follows.
Then, his father dies and he inherits Anand Mahal. A 400-year-old haveli in Jaipur. A title he never asked for. A brass key he intends to hand to the highest bidder.
Enter Meera Chauhan. Estate manager’s daughter. Fierce. Devoted to his family’s Kul Devi. Entirely unmoved by his authority.
One by one, she has turned away every buyer he sent, without raising her voice. So he comes to Jaipur to deal with her himself. He gives her one instruction: Cooperate. Her answer? No, Boss.
Two words. The first refusal Abhinav Kumar Anand has ever been given. But the Thakur does not bend. He takes control. He makes her his personal assistant. Keeps her close. Under his eye. Within reach.
She follows every order. Perfect. Precise. Infuriating. The problem? He cannot stop watching her.
She came to fight him. He came to win. Neither of them was prepared to lose like this. She guards the haveli with her life. He starts guarding her with his. She calls him Hukum.
He decides that word belongs in his bedroom. She is still fighting the war. He has already chosen the outcome. What she doesn’t understand? The composed, calculating heir is gone.
Somewhere between her defiance and temple bells at dawn, the haveli he came to discard became the only place he has ever belonged.
And the woman fighting him for every stone became the only thing he refuses to live without. He wants her. In his arms. Wearing his name.
The future Thakurain of a haveli he will burn the world down to keep. She keeps bracing for the day he would leave. She has not understood yet.
A man like Abhinav Kumar Anand does not leave what is his. He moves the world until it stands where she does.
She spent months fighting to keep her home. She never saw that she had quietly become his.
