Adultery Defeat of Poroma Continued

[shivanikaur2]

Chapter 41: The Papers Are Served

The process server arrived at nine fifteen on Monday morning. I was already in the office. I had left at seven thirty, earlier than usual, without explanation.

Poroma was at the kitchen table feeding Rajiv his morning porridge when the knock came. She would have been expecting the vegetable vendor.

I know this is how it happened because the Aya told me the details that evening, quietly, in the kitchen after the children were asleep.

Poroma took the envelope. Looked at it. Turned it over. Looked at her name on the front in typed official lettering. Sat down on the kitchen chair very slowly while Rajiv continued to address his porridge. She opened it there at the kitchen table and read the entire document without moving.

Then she put it on the table and sat looking at it.

The Aya found her there twenty minutes later. Poroma had not moved. Rajiv had overturned his bowl and was peacefully redistributing the porridge across the high chair tray.

Poroma called me eleven times between nine thirty and ten fifteen. I did not pick up a single call. At ten sixteen I sent one message.

*Speak to a lawyer. Not to me.*

She called Rahul next. He did not pick up. He was in a closed conference room with the company's internal audit committee and his phone was face down on the table in front of him while two people he had never expected to see in the same room went through his expenses account line by line.