Mum asked us if we had visited the nature reserve as we had been to the village on our travels. When she said that I knew that they had looked at our ...olaroid pictures as we had never mentioned the village to them. The next time we checked their house while they were away we had another look in the biscuit tin and there had been several additions. There were pictures of mum in her one piece swimsuit with the top pulled down, in just her bikini bottoms, in only stocking and suspenders, standing. “Theek hai, tum mere sath aao. Mujhe tumharee bahut jaroorat hai! Mai tumko Haria ke sath kal dopaha aur aaj subha dekh kar buri tarah se pareshan ho gaya hun. Mai is samay tumko jam kar chodna chahata hun,” Jagan Devkee se bola.“Eh kaise ho sakta hai, mai to tumhare acche dost ki biwi hun” Devkee ne virodh kiya.“Tum mere liya ek bhai saman ho, tum mere sath eh sab gande kaam kaise kar sakte ho” Devkee Jagan se boli. “Tum apne waade ke khilaf nahee ja saktee ho, agar tum mere sath nahee chaltee. She hadn’t answered her phone in a day and a half, so she picked it up and flipped it open. She had twelve messages. Eight were from Tim, one each from her mother-in-law and David, and two from Alan Bridges, the principal at school. She listened to the first few from Tim. They were the same. Honey, I’m sorry. Can’t we just talk about it. I miss you. Please forgive me. After listening to this for the third time, she erased the remainder of his messages. She listened to David’s message. ‘Aimee,. She tipped her head back, enjoying the early morning sun caressing the skin of her bare shoulders. She wore a low-cut tank top over her sports bra and tight running pants that hugged her round ass. Switching to stretch the other leg, she turned her music on and placed a headphone in each ear. Giving her leg one last stretch, she set off at a light jog into the running trail behind her.As she did every morning, Maya soon found herself lost in the rhythm of her run. Her sneakers hit the pavement.