“Kill the lamps, Ishaan. The cushions will flatten before he even sits.”
Leela already had her palm on the switch plate of our office mock living room. The second-floor show set was still dressed for the Delhi buyer, lamps warm, throw folded wrong on purpose. I kept my hand on the sofa arm and did not step aside.
“If we strip it for lunch, he walks into plywood and tape,” I said. “The India catalogue still uses live rooms. He will notice.”
“He notices flattened foam too.” Her voice stayed low because the glass wall faced the corridor. “I am going down. Shut it if you grow up.”
She turned toward the lift lobby. The disagreement was not finished. I stayed.
For a minute the office floor sounded like itself: a printer two bays over, someone laughing near accounts, the air vent ticking. I adjusted the throw a finger-width and left the lamps on. That was the choice. Not a lock. Not a speech. I would hold the set through lunch and take the heat later.
Soft heels came back before the lift even chimed. Leela stopped in the opening of the mock doorway, kurta neat, ID still clipped at her hip.
“You are actually doing this.”
“I am staying, yes.”
She crossed the rug as if she meant to yank the plug herself. I blocked the side table with my hip. We ended up close enough that I smelled the mint she kept for client meetings. Her knuckles brushed my shirt, not quite a shove.
“Move.”
“No.”
Stay If You Want the Display
Her mouth tightened, then she laughed once, private and unkind. “You look proud of a sofa.”
“I look like someone who will not hand him a dead room.”
The next breath was hers against my collar. She did not step back. I did not invent a reason. When she lifted her face, I met it. The kiss was clumsy at first, teeth, then it settled, her hand fisting the front of my office shirt as if the argument had simply changed tools.
I pulled away enough to see her eyes. “Here?”
“Yes. Now, before I talk myself out of it.”
That was the whole permission. She tugged me past the styled coffee table toward the sample alcove we used for extra cushions, a narrow room with a half door and a work counter. Nobody dressed that corner for buyers. The corridor still showed through a strip of glass, so we kept to the blind side.
Her kurta came up only as far as needed. I found the waist of her trousers and she nodded against my mouth while she opened my belt. The office noise went on without us. I got a condom from my wallet because I am not a child, tore it, and she watched my hands like she was still checking a display.
I rolled it on. She hopped to sit on the counter, trousers shoved to one ankle, and pulled me in by the belt loops. When I pushed into her she made a sound she swallowed, forehead to my shoulder, and her heels hooked behind me.
We did not have a script. She was wet enough that the first stroke seated me deep, and she bit the cloth of my shirt to keep quiet. I held the counter edge so we would not rattle the sample jars. Her breath broke on every inward move. I found a pace that was not polite and not loud.
“Harder,” she whispered, which was not how she spoke in stand-ups.
I gave her that. The alcove smelled of new cotton and her skin. Her ID badge tapped my chest and I unclipped it, set it beside a stack of swatches, and put my mouth on the side of her throat where the kurta had slipped. She clenched around me and I had to stop a second, forehead to the cabinet, or I would have finished too soon.
Outside, a trolley squeaked and faded. We stayed inside the work. Her fingers dug under my shirt at the back. I thrust again, shorter, and she met it, the counter kissing the wall in a dull rhythm we both pretended was nothing.
I reached between us and rubbed where she needed it. Her thighs shook. She came with her mouth open against my neck and almost no sound, which felt like the most office thing about it, that discipline. I was still moving, still sheathed, chasing the heat she left behind, when the wall speaker in the mock room cracked to life.
“Leela Sen, landline. Delhi buyer on hold. Leela Sen.”
Her eyes flew open. The rhythm broke. She did not push me off. She gripped my arm.
“That is early.”
“I know.”
We could have frozen and waited for a second page. Instead she looked at the half door, then at me still inside her, and made a different call.
“Finish. Then I take it. Do not make me walk out shaking.”
I nodded. The new decision was ugly and practical. I hooked her closer, drove in with the short strokes that had been working, and let the pressure build without the earlier patience. She held my face so I would not groan. When I came it was hard and contained, hips tight to the counter, the condom doing its job while my mind had already started walking downstairs.
We stayed like that for three breaths. Then she tapped my hip. I pulled out carefully, tied the condom, wrapped it in tissue from the swatch drawer, and dropped it in the covered bin we used for damaged samples. She slid down, pulled her trousers up, and smoothed the kurta with both palms as if a client could see creases through walls.
The Board Lit Her Name First
The mock living room was still lit, throw only a little worse. Leela clipped her ID back on. I fixed my belt and tucked my shirt. We looked like two people who had argued about foam density.
She went to the styled side table where the floor tablet sat in its stand, the same board we used to flag who owned the live set. I thought she would only silence the page. The India circuit note was already there in red: Delhi buyer, Ahmedabad stop, lunch delayed, present from floor.
Her thumb moved. I saw my name drop into the presenter field before I understood she was not asking.
“You kept the lamps,” she said, not looking at me. “You present. I will take the call and send him up in twelve minutes.”
That was the discovery. Not a kiss. Not a plan for later. The board now had me as the face of the room I had refused to kill.
I opened my mouth to argue and closed it. The cushions were still plump enough. My pulse was still stupid. Downstairs, a man who bought for stores across the country was waiting on a landline, and my colleague was already walking to the glass corridor with her work voice returning.
“Ishaan.” She paused at the mock doorway, professional again. “Do not look like you just won a fight.”
I picked up the throw, squared it, and checked my collar in the dark TV screen we used as a prop. Then I followed her out of the set because the board said I had twelve minutes, and the office was done waiting on us.
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