I turned away almost guiltily for some reason, and saw Drew watching me. He gave me a small smile. ‘My wife,’ he said quietly, moving next to me a...d looking at the picture. ‘She passed away.’ I swallowed. ‘God, Drew, I am so sorry. I had no idea.’ ‘It’s okay,’ he said, nodding. ‘I don’t really talk about it. Gwen knows I was married but I think she thinks I’m divorced…I never corrected her because it just never really came up.’ He glanced at me with an embarrassed expression. ‘I’m really. As I left to return to work, right outside my door and in the alley was Sam and a couple of girlfriends, all puffing merrily away on cigarettes. She nonchalantly looked at me, smiled and said, “I see the swelling has gone down”. She turned and giggled to her friends. One was a black girl, the colour of mil chocolate, with an afro and a button nose, the other had a mane of red hair which went all the way down to her behind. Embarrassed I didn’t really have a good look at either of them but the. Or mai bed se uth gayi..Rahul- (nurvous hote huye) mujhe pata tha tumhare bas ki bat nahi hai.. Or wo udhar karvat le ke so gaye.Rahul to so gaye lekin mujhe pure din un par gussa aa raha tha, sham hote hote meraa gussa thoda shant hua to mai chay le kar unke kamre me gayi,Me- chay pee lo,Hum chupchap chay pee rahe the. Maine puchha-Me- kya sach me ye karna chahiye..Rahul- or tumhare pas koi tarika hai use khush karne ka??Me- pata nahi…Chay pe kar mai bahar aa gayi. Rahul ko dawayi di thi jiski. " He wasn't really—" Shani and Anh both cut off my protests with a single pair of looks."Alex was going to defend your son," Shani explained. "Just like he talked Kitty into giving him a fresh start and offering him the benefit of the doubt. It was a roundabout way of asking her to view him without taking into account all the rumors. He's just such a nice guy, though, that he'd have made the same offer whether she went out with him or not."Caroline was starting to look a bit dazzled with all.