Vijaya sat in the bank conference room, trying to stay calm while inside, her heart was racing. The silence in the room was so thick, the occasional rustle of paper seemed to have to force its way through and sSeated around the big table were all the principals to the sale while they were all carefully studying mortages, deeds and other papers and Vijaya, at this point, had nothing to do but watch them as they slowly turned pages.
Her job, she hoped, was done. She had gotten buyer and seller together, gotten them to agree on price, and helped arrange the mortgage. Theoretically, there was nothing more for her to do except collect her commission. She wondered how Uday was doing. She had made another of those gut-wrenching drives to the hospital with him shivering and shaking beside her. By now he had been on the kidney machine for close to an hour. His agony should be subsiding. Vijaya felt reasonably confident that everything was going to be all right. No one at the office had gotten wise to what she had done. All the terms of the sale had been agreed on. Even though Uday only had two more times on the hospital kidney machine, there should be no trouble. Those two treatments would give them enough time to get their own dialysis unit and get it set up.
He was going to live! It all had worked out, all the worry and sweat and filth and degradation and risks had paid off, had been worth it. The guilt Vijaya felt about what she had done was tempered by the knowledge that Uday was going to live. She noticed that Sundar Raj had finished reading his papers. The banker arranged them in a precise perfect stack in front of himself, placed a pen and a pencil exactly one inch on either side of the pile, then sat back. The expression on his pink face was unreadable.
Ripu KN was next to finish. Casually, he dropped the last one on the top of his untidy heap and rubbed his eyes. His expression was just as unreadable as Raj's while Sandhya KN added the papers she had been reading to her husband's stack and her lips quirked and she glanced at Vijaya, and shrugged.
Badri Dayal was frowning. Vijaya watched him nervously. His forehead was wrinkled slightly - three faint lines between his red eyebrows. Reaching the end of the final sale contract, he leafed back through it and reread it. Keeping the contract open to that page he set it in front of him, and weighed it down with an ashtray.
"Well," Sundar Raj began, "everything seems to be in order. Is everything agreeable to you, Mr. KN?"
Vijaya watched him fearfully. The short, powerfully built man nodded. "Yes."
"Mrs. KN?" Raj asked.
"If it's all right with him, it's all right with me," she said agreeably.
"Mr. Dayal?"
The big Panjabi frowned. "No."
Vijaya flinched at the single, short denial. Oh God, not now! Sundar Raj looked mildly startled.
"Oh? What seems to e the problem?"
"Two problems," the color-haired man answered. "First is the date I take occupancy. That has been changed from what Mr. KN and I originally agreed upon."
He paused and Vijaya's eyes went to the KNs. Ripu KN was looking at the agreement. Sandhya KN was carefully inspecting her long, elegant fingernails.
"Second problem is in the mortgage," Dayal went on.
"There is a prepayment penalty in the mortgage." He looked at Raj.
Raj nodded blandly. "Well, yes, that is standard bank policy," he responded.
"Well then, it's no deal," Dayal said firmly.
Vijaya thought she was going to die.
"I see," Raj said blandly. "That's unfortunate."
"What's wrong with the date of occupancy?" Sandhya KN asked her voice soft.
Vijaya eyed the tall woman carefully. She had the feeling something was brewing.
"What's wrong? I have to be out of my present place on the first of the month, and according to this I can't move into your house until the last of the month. At least, that is when you are scheduled to vacate it," Dayal pointed out. "I don't understand why it was changed."
"Maybe there's an error on your copy," Sandhya KN suggested, getting up from her chair. She strolled around the table, her moves easy, graceful languid, and sexy. When she got behind Badri Dayal, she leaned over him, and studied his papers. Vijaya saw that one of the woman's big, lush breasts was brushing the side of Dayal's head, and that he responded by leaning against the warm, soft mound and rubbing his cheek against Sandhya's shining satin blouse.
"Mr. Dayal," Sandhya said softly, "this agreement says we will vacate the house on the last day of the month, if you so desire, however, I don't see where it makes any statement as to when you are to move in." She shifted to rub her full breast provocatively against the man's cheek. She also slid one hand down and rested it on his thigh.
Vijaya watched a gleam come into Dayal's blue eyes. Leaning away from the tall woman pressed so intimately close to him, he looked first at her face and then his gaze traveled downward to admire the full thrust of her breasts and her trim waist. "Just what, exactly, are you driving at, Mrs. KN?" he asked softly. Vijaya's heart was hammering. Was Sandhya KN such a wanton that she was going to seduce the man right here? Vijaya glanced at Ripu KN. He was watching the interplay between his wife and Badri Dayal with great interest and when he felt Vijaya's gaze on him, he glanced at her and smiled. Vijaya realized then that the whole thing had been planned.
She shot a glance at Sundar Raj. He was gripping the edge of the table so tightly the tips of his fingers were white. His collar looked too tight. It was cutting into the soft flesh of his neck, and the color of his face had changed from pink to red. His gray eyes were looking so hard at Sandhya KN it looked as if they might push his glasses off his nose. Sandhya KN leaned easily back against the table beside Badri Dayal, posing her long body in a graceful line. She began unbuttoning her satin blouse. "I am sure that you would find living with us for a month most - stimulating."
"Oh?" Badri Dayal replied innocently. "In what way?" He dropped his gaze to the pair of breasts Sandhya KN was slowly exposing. Her blouse was open down the center now. She wore no bra. He could see the magnificent full thrust of her bosom, the heavy, exciting undersides of her breasts and the deep, lush valley between them.
"Why, physically, of course," she answered. "Ripu and I are students of a wide variety of physical cultures. For example," she concluded, leaning forward, placing her hands on the Panjabi's cheeks, "touching." She lowered her mouth to his, her lips pursed, but open.
Sandhya was thrusting her tongue deep in Dayal's mouth in bold exploration, taking the initiative. Sandhya's heavy breasts swayed enticingly. Badri Dayal took his hands from the edge of the table and reached for her heavy glands. Casually brushing her blouse open, he lifted and massaged the heavy globes, his palms rubbing over her large, alert nipples.
Vijaya was feeling rushes of flame sweep through her just from watching Sandhya KN and Badri Dayal necking and petting their way up to a searing plateau of lust. Tearing her eyes off them, she glanced at Sundar Raj. He looked as if he was about to explode. Then Vijaya looked at Ripu KN. He looked interested but complacent. He cocked an eyebrow at Vijaya, then gave a small jerk of his head in the direction of Sundar Raj.
The banker? What about the banker? Then understanding dawned. Obviously, the matter of date of occupancy was being negotiated already. That still left the problem of the prepayment penalty clause. Vijaya got up from her chair, her heart pounding. She felt both sick and excited. It was such a preposterous setting - the staid, conservative conference room of the bank. But it made it all the more exciting. Sundar Raj was barely aware of Vijaya's approach. When she moved into his line of sight, he shifted so he could still see Sandhya and Badri. Vijaya sat on the table in front of Raj and glanced over her shoulder at Sandhya KN and Badri Dayal. What she saw sent her blood pressure soaring. She could not blame the banker for wanting to keep on watching.
The colored-haired buyer had bared Sandhya to the waist. Still seated, he was leaning forward, his head tipped back. He was sucking and tonguing first one rubbery tit, then the other, making the dark buds gleam, and stand up proudly and ask for more attention. Sandhya was running her fingers through his dyed locks. Her head was tipped back, her breasts thrust forward. Her face was a mask of lust - open mouth, slit eyes. "About that prepayment penalty," Vijaya said softly to Raj, still listening to the ecstatic sighs from Sandhya KN as Dayal sucked on her breasts.
Sundar Raj shook his head. His necktie bobbed nervously as he swallowed. "Bank policy," he squeaked. His eyes were still locked on Dayal and Sandhya KN.
Vijaya undid the top button of her blouse. "You can make an exception," she said softly.
Raj shook his head again, still without taking his eyes off the couple down the table from him. "I am sorry, but it is just not done. Except under extremely unusual circumstances."
Vijaya nodded her head in the direction of the buyer and the seller's wife. "Don't you think this is somewhat unusual?" She noticed that Dayal had both of his hands up under Sandhya KN's ghaghra. As Vijaya watched, Sandhya lifted her hips. Badri Dayal smoothly slid her lacy panties down her sleek, tan legs. Sandhya's grin was tight and excited and her white teeth flashed in the unforgiving fluorescent lighting.