“Because you are my wife,” he says, and I roll my eyes. As if that’s the reason alone. “And you weren’t answering my texts.”
“So you sent me flowers? Four times? Are you that rich?”
I mean, I know he is rich. But I don’t have that many defenses.
“Baby, you know I could fill your office up with bouquets without making a dent in my account.” I can imagine the smirk on his face as he says the words.
“So humble.”
“Always. Now that I have your attention, tell me, why didn’t you answer my texts?”
“I was busy, and my phone was on silent.”
“Nice excuse for ignoring your husband.”
“Well, I am learning from the best after all.”
Before I can overthink my remark, he laughs on the other end, and I feel my heart relax.
With our continuous banter, I always forget when I am being mean, when I am being sarcastic and when I am being funny.
“Don’t you have work today?” I ask when he doesn’t make a move to hang up.
“I do,” he says. “I just wanted to let you know that I am picking you up today.”
“But I drove all the way here,” I argue. I don’t like to leave my car here in the office. Because then my brain constantly keeps thinking that it got stolen.
“Let Sasha take it home,” he says. “I am not letting you argue for this one.”
My eyebrows furrow. Thekaleshiin me is rising to the surface.
“So, you think I always argue?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“But you insinuated that I do.”
“No,meri jaan,” he says, coming to his defense quickly. “You never argue. I am the one who does that.”
I chuckle, knowing that is so not true, and slowly get used to the old us once again.
God, I missed this. I missed us.
“True,” I say. “Anyways, I have a meeting now. I will see you later.”
“See you. I love you,meri jaan.”
He hangs up, and I keep the phone attached to my ear for a while.
“I love you too.”
* * *
“Take care of my car,” I say for the hundredth time to Sasha, who looks ready to drive over me now.
What can I do? I have an emotional attachment to my car. Reyansh bought it for me on my birthday after we got married, and I have held onto it for as long as our relationship.
“If you say it one more time, I am deliberately going to drive it into a wall,” she threatens.
