‘After all this, nothing else is going to interest me anymore,’ she said coyly. ‘So my boy, I would have nothing to write to you.’
‘Why,’ he said, ‘surely you can picture your reflections of our union for one.’
‘As if you haven’t seen them all,’ she sank into his lap.
‘Being unlucky in love,’ he said reflectively, ‘I never had any love letter to read. When I saw Sandhya, I wanted her in my life well before love entered my head. With you, as you know, I lost my heart to love at first sight. In a way, you’re the first woman I loved and had. If you feel it’s not risky, we could correspond till we come here.’
‘I’m happy being special to you but I feel sad that you had to wait for so long to love-mate,’ she said cajolingly, and added in disappointment, ‘Yet, I don’t want some postal mishap ruining our love.’
‘All the same, you can write, if not receive,’ he said, and added in jest, ‘If you fail to post your letter, I’ll send you a reminder.’
‘Blackmail,’ she smiled.
‘Lovemail,’ he laughed.
‘Okay boss,’ she said in all seriousness, ‘but tell me how I can assist you at work.’
‘With your presence itself,’ he said thoughtfully. ‘I’m really hopeful that we three could make it work. Your general abilities and her creative capabilities should do wonders for us.’
‘With two women backing your genius,’ she said in all admiration, ‘I’m sure we would succeed.’
‘Don’t be lavish in your praises,’ he said unpretentiously. ‘If only something goes on smoothly for some length of time at least, can one say that some genius is at work there. Well, we haven’t even started.’
‘I’ve a hunch that our sufferings are behind us,’ she said exuding optimism. ‘I’m sure that a rosy future awaits us.’
‘But what of the present,’ he said ardently.
‘Well, it’s in our mating, isn’t it?’ she said amorously.
In the ecstasy of their lovemaking quite a lot of midnight oil was burnt that night as well.
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Waking up at his honeymoon time of nine, Raja Rao tiptoed into the kitchen to surprise Roopa. When he laced her at her back, she lay smug in his embrace for long.
‘What’s for the day darling?’ he crooned into her ears at length.
‘Why not a Lambretta ride,’ she said as she had an agenda on hand, ‘all the way to wilderness.’
‘It’s an idea,’ he got excited, but said on second thoughts. ‘What if Lalitha gets wind of it and alerts Sathyam?’