My wife —" Your first wife." She shot."Don't sass me woman!" I gathered her hands. "My only wife. I, Peter Harper McElroy took you Gwendolyn Meredit... Weiss to have and to hold, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health for as long as we both shall live." I kissed her because men don't cry when they're happy. "You my wife an' this our home so I get ta do this." I swept her into my arms and narrowly avoided banging her head on the doorframe."Peter!" She was torn between sheer. She said sorry and closed the door. It was an awkward situation for me and I quickly finished taking bath and came out. I saw Rani smiling from the corner and when my wife asked what happened she said nothing. I had some breakfast and went out with brother in law for the festival preparation.My brother in law was the main person in charge of a lot of activities. With him, there were a lot of village young volunteers. My brother in law Rajesh was giving them instructions. I could see Rajesh was. I took a box of tissuesthat I keep for such occasions off the shelf andhanded it to her."Laura ? I'm going to call you by the name youintroduced yourself as ? everyone here is either verybusy or needs to find another place to work. If I'veset this up right, no one is going to have time to gettheir shorts in a bunch over who you are or aren't.But let's try something." I stood up and walked to thedoor. "You've already met our receptionist, and thereis one other woman who is here all the time that. This was no longer the 1950s and we lived in Chicago. “And that’s OK, Mikey” Donna leaned forward and touched my hand. “How does she know?” I responded with an inquisitive look and a hard stare at mom. “She has always wondered why you have never asked her out.” Donna raised her eyebrows and smiled sweetly in agreement. I immediately felt my heart slow and my hand stop shaking. I caught my breath only after she gave my hand a gentle squeeze. “She never showed any interest in me, mother.” I.