One night with Ex-Husband

Coffee

The cabin looked more like a war zone with both Abram and Maira glaring at each other from time to time.

"Add new criteria to the report, apart from customer satisfaction, I also need the data for their dissatisfaction. The client wants to see the percentage first and then proceed with the transit," Abram said in his monotone.

All the while, he was busy with conference calls and was rigorously typing over his laptop. However, one call caught Maira's attention when he answered with a big smile, "Ma, how are you?"

Maira never had any issue with her mother in law Ruby, but she never stopped her son from divorcing her either. On the initial day of her divorce, Maira was plagued with lots of questions, why does it happen, there were no red flags or issues in their relationship, everybody was happy then why all of sudden they left her without giving a reason.

Flashes of the past made her uneasy and she made an excuse to leave the cabin, which didn't get unnoticed by Abram, nevertheless, he continued his talk with his mother.

"You came back early from the US and are not even staying with us. What happened to you?" Ruby whined.

"Ma, I got accommodation from my company plus it is convenient for me to stay there," Abram lied. He didn't want to stay at the same place where he shared numerous memories with his wife.

"Did you meet her?" Ruby asked out of the blue.

"I don't want to talk about her, Ma."

"Your lawyer has taken permission for 2 months, make sure you attend the next hearing and get over with the divorce, it's already been 2 years, I can't wait to find you a new bride," Ruby said.

"I gotta go Ma, I have a meeting."

"Sure, but don't forget to come over for dinner this weekend, we'll be waiting, oh, I forgot, Zara, will be coming," with that, the call ended.

Maira collected her coffee to stall her time to go back to the cabin. It took every bit of her to sit in the same cabin with him while fully aware of him gazing at her from time to time. She wanted to talk to him about their relationship, about what went wrong, about her abortion, about why he didn't attend any of the court hearings, about how he ended up being her boss but that one word he said, stopped her from approaching him; w***e.

Get over it Maira, if it was meant to happen, it would have happened. It's your time to rise and not fall again.

When she entered the cabin, she found it to be empty. Let's get done with the work before he comes and spoils my entire day, she encourages herself and starts working.

She leaned forward over her laptop with coffee in her right hand and scrolling through her screen with her left. At one point, she placed her coffee on the desk to type something and when she moved her hand to hold the coffee again she found only air. The next second she saw Abram gulping down her coffee before saying, "Next time get one for me."

"There won't be a next time, Mr. Ali, I am done with the report. Have a look before I leave," she said gritting her teeth.

Bastard, she cursed him.

"You can do better with the cursing," Abram said while leaning over her shoulder to look at her screen.

"The reports look good, you may leave."

"If you can move away from the chair, I can get up," Maira said, noticing that he was leaning over her shoulder with one hand on the desk and the other on the chair. Unless he moves, she can only get up from the chair by rubbing her body against his.

"I don't see I am blocking your way by any means," Abram said while inching closer to her.

Already frustrated with him drinking her coffee, she stamped her heels over his foot making him wince in pain. He immediately moved away from her while holding his foot.

"Oops, sorry I didn't see your foot there," she grabbed her laptop and rushed out of the cabin.

"No, you didn't."

"Yes, I did."

When Maira told about her little stunt to Sharon and Elijah they both burst out laughing. Their laugh attracted a lot of employees, including Abram, who was glaring at the trio.

You are going to pay for your little stunt, catty.

After Maira stamped Abram's foot, he never pestered her or asked her for any work. During one of their weekly team meetings, Shantanu was giving them the details of the client visit and how it will soon be over with results in their favor. The next pointer was to choose a team member who will be putting up a presentation of how their team works and the last year's business performance.

"Why don't you all nominate someone from your team, instead of me choosing?" Shantanu suggested.

It was Elijah who first told, "Maira is the best analyst among us, why don't we let her do the presentation."

Some agreed, some scowled thinking she was new compared to them, while some listened to Elijah and gave a thought. Eventually, with mutual consent, Maira was nominated to give a presentation in front of the client, Management executives, and her team.

"I don't know, I am not sure," Maira was still contemplating, nevertheless she agreed with Sharon's insistence.

"Maira, congratulations. It's a big opportunity for you," Shantanu said.

"Well, you have 2 weeks to prepare it and for that, you have to sit with Abram for two weeks," he added, shocking Maira.