”I shook my head. I loved this guy like he was my own brother. In fact I loved him more than I loved my own brother, we were that close. And I loved...Karen, his wife, just as much.Sometimes you meet people, and you just bond. You want to be in their company, you want to share things in your life with them, you want them to share with you, and you want to spend time together doing the things you both love. That was the four of us. Two couples – four best friends.Caro and I, and he and Karen had. "He was up the driveway of Rose's place even before he realized he had moved. He found the second window quickly and bent down to peer into the room."I'm getting to be a first-rate Peeping Tom," he murmured very softly. "Never thought I'd do a thing like this."He could see a form under the sheet but could only guess that it was Rose. Probably it was. Hadn't Cindy said she lived alone? He grinned. Maybe it was the dog. Pete shook his head, wondering if he were going off the deep end or something. When I had left for college, Mom had been a dowdy, pudgy housewife with few interests outside of the kitchen and church. When I returned home, I discovered a transformed woman. Mom had lost weight, switched to a fashionable hairstyle, bought trendy clothes, and learned how to apply makeup. In other words, my Mom had become a babe. If my father even noticed, he didn't seem to care. He was so immersed in his work that nothing else mattered to him. If he didn't want her, I did. I began to have. He was a very successful senior manager in another company. Theirs was a love marriage and they had a cute 5-year-old daughter.The reception staff was completely busy as a wedding had just completed and the guests were checking out in multiple phases. So they asked us to wait. We had planned to take ten rooms overnight for our accommodation on a twin sharing basis. To make things easier, Lakshmi and I spoke to the reception and took the keys of all the ten rooms we were to occupy and gave all.