” Savita stood up. “It’s that she is a modern girl and she wants to fall in love…”“No. All she needs right now is a husband and Harish Ban...erji is a very good man and affluent.”“I had sex with your good to be son-in-law a couple of hours ago.” Savita blurted out in anger. She couldn’t possibly see Shobha getting married to some fuck-boy who has a lot of fuck buddies.“What? You cheated on your husband for the sake of Shobha?”, he asked in a doubting voice but he was shocked to hear her. Having 13 pairs of hands (or 12, actually since I was pushed away anytime I reached for anything heavier than a chicken wing) made the work go pretty quick.We had the room painted, the moldings back in place and the cutest trundle bed in place by the time Sarah left to pick up the boys from their elementary school. We adjourned to the back yard for wings but most of us had iced tea or water since we needed to leave soon.It was about a five-hour drive along Interstate 8 to Phoenix from the San. " I guess so. You'd think I'd remember my own sister, though." Well that's your handwriting, right?" she asked pointing at Claudia's name."Yes," he said."And you wrote the date right there, right?" She pointed to the date of the last update, which was just before his deployment to Iraq."Yup," he said."Then you have a sister," she said, smiling. "But her phone number is no longer in service, according to the call log. Maybe she moved after you deployed. Or at least changed her phone number.". I could hear Dane running to catch me. Before long I reached a thin ‘game trail’ that branched off the one I was on, and glancing back at him, turned down it. Minutes later I stopped by a slow moving creek running through a little glade. Dane slipped his arms around me, trailing his fingers over my ribs. “This place is beautiful.” His words were whispered against the skin of my neck, and made me shiver. I didn’t turn. “Ever since I first saw this place I wanted.