Great topic! In my opinion, Maan is a living breathing sample of a Mills and Boon male protagonist.
Come'on guys, 95% of their heroes are like Maan--
- confident to the verge of cockiness
- extremely successful
- brash and aggressive
- honest to a fault
- has no time for sappy emotions
- unaffected by women (especially detests ones that fawn over him)
Enter an innocent, pure young woman, that the guy detests at sight and he is more cruel to her than anyone else in the world. Every thing the innocent young woman does, the man is affected by it. It breaks his concentration and sharp determination, which annoys the hell out of him--> hence the anger directed towards her. The woman, naturally, hates him and his guts, but cannot pull away from his glance and shivers at his touch. The man is unaware that all this is attraction towards the innocent young woman for the longest time. And it takes even longer for the woman to realize that the reason he was mean to her all this time was because he was extremely attracted towards her and did not know how else to channel his emotions!
Works like a charm, every time!
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