Page 26 of That Same Old Love

It was mid-November and close to four months into their deal.

Samrat had to fly overseas for a couple of weeks to attend a lawsuit hearing. Someone was suing the company claiming that Stimmulus was unnatural and that it might lead to severe brain damage.

He had to fly in personally for the court proceedings where a team of doctors, scientists and lawyers were working together to resolve the lawsuit either as an out of court settlement or to argue against the false claims.

Samrat tried to tempt her to join him in the trip. “Come with me. It might take less than two weeks too. We can fly back or just spend some time there sightseeing.”

He had asked Mahi repeatedly to accompany him to the trip for two weeks since it was the longest they had been apart since their deal.

But Mahi refused to join him since she had a busy work week.

“Two words. Phone sex,” she said with a shameless smirk.

Samrat sighed. “This is going to be a very long trip for me,” he told her and kissed her senseless.

By the time Mahi woke up in the morning, Samrat had already left.