Nihaal was awkward for he didn’t want to look at Suhasini at that moment. Suhasini continued to stare at him and realized that she should have been appalled by what Nihaal has just suggested. But for reasons unfathomable to her, she was relieved, very relieved. ‘So it will not be like that – that passion, that urgency, that tenderness – with other men’, she asked still looking at him squarely. ‘No!’, Nihaal replied firmly and haughtily. But soon with realization, a frown came on his forehead as he said, ‘I mean, I think so.’ His lifted his gaze and met Suhasini’s. ‘I have, you know, I have not felt like this before, so I think it’s not possible, you know…’, he said with a hint of confidence and pride. ‘You clearly are very skilled at it’, Suhasini had thought to herself and instantly and

