The jacket revealed a crisp white blouse held together with a handsome cameo brooch at the point of the v-shaped opening. Her hair caught and held my...attention, small waves of a rich auburn, gathered at the nape of the neck in a club with a green velvet ribbon, with curly tendrils of hair around her ears and the nape of her neck making their bid for freedom. I stared at her, and I suspect that my mouth was agape. ‘God!’ I thought, ‘is this love at first sight?’ The shopkeeper saw my. .. or...” His rushed question stuttered to an end as he struggled for a way to say what he wanted.“Or paid me?” she asked softly.“I don’t want to imply that you are the kind of woman who could be paid to be with me.” Even though she was on the other end of a phone conversation, Liam could feel his face heating with a blush. “I just hate the idea of people doing things against their will because my family is ... influential.”“You are a sensitive person, Liam, so I am going to be perfectly honest. * * * * * I am on a battlefield. A sword rests heavy in my hand. The weapon doesn’t feel right, but the fiery speeches that Wallace spewed ignited an unknown fire deep in my bowels. I had to follow him into battle. But so many of us have died already that once green hills are now dark with the empty life of my countrymen. When Wallace came to my village, I was working in the fields alongside my wife, Meagan. Oh, she was a beauty of a woman: almost as tall as me, with blazing green eyes and a. Even the newly-wed dude was stealing glances at you. Hahaha!Mona: Hahaha! And, you looked equally impressive. Not just the new bride, but also her mother – my best friend, Ramya, had their eyes on you.Ayan: So, what are we looking at? A fivesome!Mona: Hahaha! We are doing nothing with Ramya. Don’t ask me why! Lol! But, if you are adamant about a fivesome, we have Vimal to help. I have seen his future wife’s mother, and she is just your type. Hehe! The kind of things I have to tell my son.Ayan:.