‘Oh, to be wanted like this,’ he said, as he followed her bidding, ‘is divine indeed.’
In the end, as the sun was all set to cross the horizon, they rushed back to the city, as if to beat it at its own game. But once they reached Paradise, they stopped for a cup of Irani chai that they shared by the roadside. Thereafter, having loitered on the Tank Bund for a while, on their way back home, he picked up four bottles of King Fisher.
‘Are you going to gobble up all that beer?’ she said surprised.
‘I thought we might share,’ he said tantalizingly.
‘Does it help me too?’ she winked.
‘Yes, to take the stuffing out of me,’ he said in smile.
Reaching home, they were relieved at finding a padlock on the landlord’s door.
‘Seems my bad-luck is a spent force now,’ she said, touching the door before she opened it. ‘Touch wood.’
‘That should auger well for our love life,’ he said repeating the ritual.
Having stuffed the beer bottles in the fridge, they went together into the bathroom for a shower. Though they went in together as if to save time, yet they took a long time coming out of it, to settle down on the bed readily for three cheers.
‘Isn’t it bitter,’ she said after the first sip.
‘You would feel better,’ he said in encouragement, ‘after a gulp or more.’
‘I know it would be better for me,’ she smiled, ‘even without me drinking it.’
‘You are impossible,’ he said.
‘Like Sandhya, you mean,’ she said, smiling.
‘Did she tell you she likes her peg having my peg?’ he said with a glint in his eye.
‘Why should I betray her secrets,’ she said in mirth, ‘even to her man.’
Soon as she lay in his lap, she retched, and he had his hands stretched.
‘Oh, I’m sorry,’ she said in embarrassment as he wiped her mouth clean, he having cleaned his own hands before.
‘Why, haven’t you taken all my cum?’ he said, cuddling her in his embrace.
‘If not for that what for a woman is made?’ she said smiling, looking into his eyes as he sought her lips eagerly.
While he made love to her, she readily surrendered her soul to him while her body sought him even more eagerly.
While she was at preparing meals for them, enjoying his drink, he kept her company in the kitchen, and as if the beer tasted better from his glass, she began to share it with him. Well, having been rejuvenated after dinner, they indulged themselves, as if there would be no sex life left after that night for them.