Arya Rathore, a 29-year-old girl, owns an art gallery in Jaipur, India. Her dream is to meet and study her muse in person, the great artist and painter, Alessandro Mancini. Things take a sharper turn when she finds herself standing near the death's door. She must strive to fulfil her dream by hook or by crook before she runs out of time. 

And the only person who can get her there is his son, Lionel Mancini, the arrogant, mysterious yet inadvertently irresistible and one of the most powerful men in West Coast USA. There is something dark about him that she can't put her finger on. 

Would she be able to con Lionel and acquire her lifelong dream? Or would she get buried in the ground before its time?......

The Walk of Sin

In the late afternoon, I heard a knock at the door. I kept my current read on the coffee table in front of the couch, removed my blanket, and walked towards the door. 


I peeked outside through the curtain wondering who could that be at this hour? 


I saw Tylor dressed in a green hoodie and khaki chinos standing outside with a bunch of flowers in his hand. 


Lionel was standing just beside him dressed like he was here for a business meeting in his long coat, well-set millennial pompadour style hair. 


"What are they doing here this early?" I wondered. 


I was about to open the door when I glanced at my messy hair in the mirror on the dresser set in the corner of the room. 


I quickly combed it into a neat side braid and applied some cranberry lip balm on my dehydrated lips. 


The doorbell buzzed again and I quickly changed into a blue jersey over my polka-dotted pajamas and rushed to open the door for them. 


Chapter 26