Bas mujhme yahi khasiyat thi ki main striyon ka bahut samman karta tha. Dhire dhire mai sweta bhabi ke pariwar se karib hota gaya. Rajesh bhaiya ke ba...hche aksar mere ghar par hi khelte the. Main bhi unke ghar par ane-jane laga tha. Sweta bhabhi bhi mere se kafi khul gai thi. Mujhe bhi unse bate karne me bahut achcha lagta tha. Rajesh bhaiya ko naukri ke silsile me aksar dawre par jana parta tha. Us samae unke office ka chawkidar rat me unke yaha sota tha. Chunki mai bhi wahan paros me rahne. )"Hi, Alex! Long time!" Hey, Maria. I didn't know you were going to be on this trip." You didn't ask. Actually, I'm not here for the whole trip -- just the Chicago series. I'm skipping the Twin Cities and Detroit. I'm representing the team in a low-level league meeting here, pertaining to sales of sponsorship rights." You're going to be running the whole thing, pretty soon." Maybe not pretty soon, but, hey, I'm young yet, as you've been so quick to remind me at every opportunity." Nice to see. All right, fantasizing. But that's no sin, is it?Dinner the next night was different. I found myself trying to catch pieces of the conversation at the other end of the table. So were the other women. I hadn't noticed before how much attention they paid to Don.It was difficult trying to maintain the conversation at my end of the table and listen to him. I may have misheard some of the things he said. " ... catch more flies with money than with vinegar," I heard him say. I almost laughed but it. Including my wife, there were six women and four men in the group. When I saw my wife sitting very close to the same guy she had gone eating with the previous Friday, I became sad and was disappointed. I now figured that something was probably going on between them.After taking a table at the back and as far away as possible from them I began to observe what was going on. It was darker in that section where I was seated and there were a couple of lonely souls drinking their troubles away, just.