Leaning close he kissed me on the mouth once more."Well then," he said, slowly letting go of me, "we'll need to make sure your Dad doesn't get wind of...this! I've known your Dad for years. I'd hate to loose his business too, so...he can't know about our...little secret, okay?!" Absolutely!" I replied."Can I get you a wash rag or anything to clean up with?" I'll be fine, thanks. I'll take a shower after I go home; and I still need to pick up my stuff outside before I leave." Can I get you a drink. And, though, the voice clip lasted only for a few seconds, the lust in her voice was very clear.Or was it just his feeling? Was his mother, in reality, crying?! But what about the messages she just sent? That was real! Or was it his own mind playing games?Ayan just could not process all that happened in the last few minutes and decided to send his mother a text message.Ayan: Are you alright, Mom? You don’t sound okay.Mona: No. No. It’s fine. I am fine, Ayan. I am perfect.Ayan: But you don’t. .. In my mind she had changed. She was not the simple girl-woman I knew. She wore high heels. She smoked. She talked loud.She showed up shortly before six. She greeted me with a hug, and when she saw I appeared numb she insisted that I give her cheek a hello kiss, after which she set her purse down on a table in the living room and went into the kitchen to make dinner.I stared at her purse. It was one of those slick black patent leather purses that adult women carried around. It seemed she. She had been told the same information about the timing, and wanted to check on her distant cousin.“Hi, girls. Come along with me, and we can see Kathleen together. I still don’t want to show that we are related, so say nothing about it for the present. We can ‘discover’ the relationship at a later date.”“Will do, ma’am,” said Elizabeth. “Is she awake yet?”“No idea. Let’s go find out from the nurse or the doctor.”They went through to the ‘hospital’ room, where the Colonel knocked on the door..