It was a typically beautiful early evening. Maz and I got back to the bungalow and had a couple of gins on the large terrace beside the pool. I’d pu... on a sundress, Maz was naked apart from a sarong tied around her waist. It was blue and completely sheer and she sat with her legs slightly apart. Two more gins.Mistake number three. I hadn’t eaten. The drink, the setting sun’s warmth, the hypnotic lapping of the sea on the beach and the sight of Maz’s triangle of black hair were all intoxicating.. "No," he said. The word squeezed past his teeth. "Please give me the keys. I have to go home and work or I'll lose my job." For a second nothing happened; then she whirled around and reached him with two steps. Her hands clenched his shoulders; her face was right into his."Home?" she hissed. "Job?" She pushed him away. Then she rose to her full height, folding her arms under her breasts. He could not look away from her face. Her eyes were like chunks of green ice on fire, yet her lips curled in. .aval poyi meen vendennu paranju tirichu vannu….njangal aaa moodil ninnu veliyil vannirunnu …..enikkappozhanu oru embakkam vannatu…..aval atu kettu chirichu….aval chodichu njan chettante madiyil kurachu neram kidannotte pal tannatinte oru ksheenam…..njan avale madiyil kidathi talodikondirunnu……aval kannadachu avide kidannu kurachu kazhinjappol aval ente vayarinu nere tirinju kidannu…avalude choodu swasam njan ariyunnundayirunnu..atinte vegata koodi varunnatum….njan melle avale. Is he any relation to you?" Could be. Is he a cantankerous old fart? Always snooping and griping about every little thing?" Um, yeah, that sounds like him." That's my cousin, Irv. Nasty old bastard isn't he?" Not the friendliest guy on the block, that's for sure." Ya know, I haven't thought about him in years. Had a fight when we were younger and just sort of went our own ways. Haven't seen him in better than twenty years. Sounds like time hasn't softened him up a bit."The next couple of days.