Her uncle echoed her thoughts.“It wouldn’t hurt you just to touch it,” he said slyly. “I meant, if you wanted to, you know, to see what it fee...s like.”Her pulse raced at the thought but she hid her excitement. “I’m sure I’ll find out someday,” she said nonchalantly.Her uncle spread his hands as if to show he had nothing to hide. His smile was gentle and disarming. “Why not now? Don’t you trust me Nastia? You know I love you too much to do anything to hurt you.”“Of course I trust you and I love. My mom."I turned the photograph to face Seth, effectively changing the subject as he handed the little book with the unicorn on the cover back to me and took the photograph, his fingers staying respectively on the edges. He studied the picture for a minute, and then smiled at me."You have her eyes... She looks nice." She was," I replied, and after a few moments of watching Seth look at my mom's face, I regarded him curiously. "Hey, does she, like, remind you of anyone?"Seth looked confused for. Anita, who was already furious on seeing her dream lover in the arms of another lady, felt an urge to break out the little secret to Gautam. But she behaved calmly and went inside the ladies room in pretext to check on his wife.In the meantime, inside the massage room, Kiran and Reddy too had heard those faint conversations outside. Though they had not been able to make out who the speakers were, yet it made Kiran all the more nervous and afraid. “Please…there are people outside…let me go. Worse, you had a falling out with your former boss and any satisfaction you had in working at the store was completely ruined. You weren't fired, but decided to call it quits yourself and find a new job instead.Unfortunately, you hadn't had much luck with that in the last month either. The last of your money was spent, and you are already a month late on your rent with the next payment due in two days. Your landlord was prone to kicking you out any moment now and you had little desire to move.