Chapter Three
First-Person: Shreya
For the first month or so, our relationship remained exactly what I had outlined to him in our two interviews.
I had indicated the work he was expected to do around the house and he, as unused to such domestic tasks as he was and obviously more than a little embarrassed to be tackling them on behalf of a younger woman from my part of the world, carried them out to the best of his ability, and in a way that I considered boded well for our lives going forward. His background was in government service and I knew he was the kind of man who would respond well to routine and structure – even if it would eventually prove to not be in his best interests. By giving him a comfortable living space above my garage and enough “pocket money” to allow him to indulge
