Eden buzzed Theo on his phone who answered immediately. "Come up here please," he said and left the call at that. Within a minute, Theo was in the stu...y standing to attention and bowed his head to Eden in obsequious deference."Well, Theo, it looks like I'm going to be spending all of today and possibly most of tomorrow in this place." You won't be going to Surrey today then, sir?" No, I won't," said Eden. "And it's very likely that I shan't be going there at all. My present plan, if Irons can. I guess I’m still a little overheated. I’d never had these feelings before, not even when Danny and I wrestled, real wrestling, not the fake cop-a-feel wrestling we did later on but the matches where we didn’t hold back, where we each aimed to pin the other to the mat and keep him or her there. The real deal.It was a win-win. Danny liked fucking, he told me so and when I’d seen him with Ruth I knew there was nothing fake about the way he gave it to her. He could be tender when he wanted to be. The time is ripe for us to see how we respond to each other, as equal adults, Shailendra. You’d like that, wouldn’t you, Shailendra.”“Oh God, yes, YES!”It has to done just right, making sure that neither one of us is disappointed, and that it’s what we both truly are ready for.Uh, what are you driving at, Aunt Bharathi.She rose, went to the window, drew down the blind, and then gently turned the key in the door. On returning she came close to me and I took her in my arms. I couldn’t believe I. How beautiful it was.’ He came to sit next to me on the small sofa and I could smell his scent once again. ‘This is a lovely town and I’m so glad my parents decided to buy a place here.’ ‘Are they on the island now?’ ‘No, they’re back in the UK. They’re coming out next week.’ We looked at each other and I thought of all the shadowy silent rooms that lay behind us, the peace that seemed to pervade the old house and I felt myself shiver. A sudden intense longing to spend the night here overcame.