So I went into high school teaching, met a lovely girl and got married. After five years to work off my scholarship bond, I joined a prestige Internat...onal company, progressing quickly through sales, into management, and eventually became Branch Manager. This rapid success surprised me at the time, because I believed sincerely that I had the opposite personality to the flamboyant salesman, or alpha manager. But I became successful by being a good listener who was able, by astute questioning, to. Its 11’oclock when the movie is over. All is quite in the house. I feel that familiar itch. That itch, that lovely itch south of the border. It is calling to me. I pop upstairs and check the kid’s room. The lights are out. I can hear him snoring. The parent’s master bedroom is on the other side of the house. It takes me a good 7 minutes to r each it. I just love her dresses they are so beautiful. The mother must have been a model at some point because she is an eye dropper. The husband is. Fear sweat beaded on his forehead as he became more convinced she was dead. He shined the light on her torso, looking for the rise and fall of breath. In the shaky light, he both thought he saw her breath and thought he hadn't. Brian screwed up his courage, wiped his sweaty palm on the leg of his pants and reached out do the thing he had been avoiding. He grasped her hand and began searching for a pulse in her wrist, forcing himself to ignore the voice in his head that told him he was. There’s beer and wine coolers in the fridge, he said. Okay, I said, walking over to the mini fridge and grabbing a wine cooler. I propped myself on the bed and watched him as the walked across room.The anticipation of having two women must be getting too much for him, I thought. This man – some 10 years my senior – was anxiously looking out the window awaiting Prachi’s arrival.“I don’t know if she’ll go through with this,” he said. “So when she comes in I’m gonna take a shower with her and try.