She has a... soft spot... for you. Come on, you know you like it when they complement you on those backrubs. And besides, there's one more person you ...an show off for." Who else is coming?" I inquired with a slight nervous feeling."Your Mom, silly" she giggled as she turned slowly to leave the room, her eyes trailing across my physique before returning to meet my astonished eyes. An impish grin spread across her lips as she cocked her eyebrows before bouncing out of my room. "I think my mom's. I heard her words.“Ralph, you are a bloody fool. She’s Graham’s guest.”“It was harmless. She over-reacted.”“She told you to take your hand off and you laughed and left it there.”“So? Women say these things, they don’t mean them.”“I would have thought her reaction and her tone of voice would have told you she was serious, and what you don’t know is that she has suffered sexual attacks and was raped. She is suspicious of men, and does not like being touched by strangers. OK?”“How was I to. We get into her flat which was shared by her roommate who was doing some night shift. We met her and introduced each other, she said bye in a minute and left for her office. Now we both were alone in that 2 bhk flat. I arranged those beers in the fridge and was checking out her flat. While doing so Priya called my name and if I want some coffee. I declined and said let’s have those beers, she said ok and said that give me 10 minutes as I need to get change and get freshen up. I said ok and. The big centurion grinned and came over to shake his hand, Fusa in tow. "Nicely done, today."Corvus shook his friend's hand. "Thank you. Have you seen Crispa?" She was dancing with Procula Gellius a few minutes ago," Quad indicated a direction with his head.The notion raised a strange mixture of emotions in Corvus - a hint of jealousy that she'd gone immediately to seek out a former lover while he'd been inside, layered with pleasure that his putative mistress and one of his possible wives.