‘It’s cold out here,do you mind if I come in’. I moved aside and gestured her to enter. I closed the door and she followed me into the lounge. M... heart was racing and I wa having trouble breathing. ‘Thanks’ she said. She looked around ther room and smiled. ‘This is nice’,she said and the sight of her face warmed me to the bone. I could smell her perfume,it was intoxicating. she maade her way over to the open fire that was well ablaze and reached up and put one hand on top of the mantlepiece and. Me: I’m angry on you Meena: but why what happened? Me: look! before and all you used to take care of me like your child and you used to feed me, bath me, play with me and everything you used to do for me.Meena: but!Me: and I used to hug you so tightly and sleep with you and I used to play with your navel but now a day’s you’re not at all caring about me. Meena: so sorry! You’re still my baby only okay here after I will take care of you!I hugged her and she gave a kiss in my fore head and we. I was still slaving through hopeless briefs and pro bono cases when he was made the youngest partner in his father's firm. By then he earned exactly three times as much as I did.I admired him. He was brilliant. Problem was, it was almost impossible to admire him more than he admired himself. It was also impossible for him to admire others. Like me, for instance. He ridiculed my pro bono cases. He made fun of my trying to get things done for kids in bad neighbourhoods.I lapped it all up. And. And ... and ... I had to give her up. I had to let her go. My arms squeezed tighter about her, crushing her to me. My other women were rising around us, set out on the large bed at the center of the room. A breeze drifted through an open window, carrying fresh air and an owl’s hoot. My gaze swept across the room at everyone, the ones who were sick. I didn’t see Ava or Greta, but they must have gotten us here. My eyes settled on Kora.The lives of my women versus continuing to love my.