Her previous ventures out in public, as Meredith had been casual games compared to this trip.This wasn't an adventure. This was a test. Her business l...fe was on the line. She would be meeting with people who knew Richard. If she were recognized, there could be devastating consequences. She was almost overwhelmed with fear that she would be exposed. She fought off the fear of exposure, chalking it up to natural anxiety and fatigue. She had planned to go out for the evening, but was too tired. “Absolutely not!” Tobias snapped so firmly that Tom raised his eyebrows in surprise. “Mama would be livid, and with me, rather than you, since this is my home.” He said this pointedly as it was probably Tom’s cunning plan to avert any blame onto his long-suffering younger sibling. “She nearly had me married off to one of the Lowe sisters on the last occasion and I’d be frogmarched up the aisle quick-time if it happened again.”Tom looked vaguely interested. “Wealthy, are they?”“Extremely,”. ‘So what’s the problem and what’s it got to do with me?’ ‘Well we got pretty friendly Sam,’ he confided, leaning forward as if we were secret conspirators. ‘We’ve been chatting for six or seven weeks now, and we’ve agreed it’s time we met up.’ ‘Great,’ I responded, throwing my hands in the air. ‘So you’ve made a date. Congratulations, what’s the problem? Not some dog is she?’ ‘No not at all,’ Tim shot back, all smiles. ‘She’s really rather gorgeous.’ ‘Gorgeous as in gorgeous, or gorgeous as in. Talking to my wife and being part of our household for the last two years. More times than not, she used to sleep with my Sowmyakka as she was alone in her house.It was during these times that I got extremely close to Sowmyakka. As good luck would have it, it was in May 2017 that both my parents were visiting my sister in Delhi. My wife and kids were off to Hyderabad for vacations. And I was left to myself and at the behest of my servants and maids.At this time, Sowmyakka took it upon herself.