Chapter Thirty Seven
Rapprochement
“Your emails have been very pleasing email, Rajiv,” a still animated Anya congratulated her former mentor two weeks later; the events of the previous fortnight still fresh in her memory; diminished only by contemplation of the greater joys still to come.
She had taken great pleasure in ignoring the growingly desperate, almost hourly, emails and Skype calls he had made in the time since her ultimatum to him; but now, considering two weeks a long enough penance and having used that time to reduce her employer to a level verging on the sub-human, she wanted to share her news with someone else.
“You’re welcome,” he told her; unaccustomed to the role of second-fiddle, his distaste revealing itself in his tone.
“Now, now,” she chided him, determined to pro
