MD sighed. He was ready to talk. “Give me two months,” he finally said, his eyes looking everywhere but at me.“Two months?” I retorted.
“Is that not too long for a small family introduction? No, MD, that is not acceptable,” I said to him.“Come on, Anita, two months is only a few weeks away,” he explained. “Remember, I need to plan this carefully. And besides, we are going to travel, aren’t we? Your parents are not here and I may have to take one or two people with me.
It is not quite as small as you think it is, it still requires planning.”“So, you can’t give me a date now?” I demanded, my face plastered with desperation.“No, dear, not now,” MD answered. “I need to look at my business schedules in the office, look at my free dates where I have no serious business engagements and then pick a date from one of them.”
“Okay, MD, I heard you, and I hope you will keep to your word because it won’t be funny if I inform my family that you’re coming and then you end up not showing up and asking to reschedule the visit again, I will be very mad. And do not blame me then for whatever action I take,” I let out a subtle threat.“There you go again, still threatening to do something stupid,”
MD returned, rubbing his hand on my face and trying to get me to smile.“Something stupid, you say?” I returned, looking at him with a glint of anger in my eyes. “I swear, MD, you won’t find it amusing any more if you continue to treat me the way you’re doing. I am not a girl you picked on the street, for crying out loud, I am the mother of your child, your only child for that matter.
And I guess I have to keep reminding you of that fact.”MD smiled. He drew me closer. “You have nothing to worry about, my dear, I have assured you countless times. And you do not need to remind me, I know you’re the mother of my child, my ONLY child for that matter,” he whispered in my ears, emphasising ONLY the way I emphasise it when I said the same words to him.“Then treat me like one, MD, treat me like I mean something to you…Put a ring on my finger, or is that too much to ask for? Two months, MD, two months and not a day more, otherwise, it is over between us!”
MD was silent. He was speechless. He just sat there, watching me, a cold look on his face. No doubt about it, he didn’t find it amusing that I was putting my foot down with him, he didn’t like it all.“I have heard you, Anita but I have said it before and I will say it again, stop threatening me, I do not appreciate it!” he shot at me. “I have assured you I will handle this matter and make sure things go according to plan. But you won’t listen to me, you keep threatening me, you keep threatening to take my son away from me…is that what you really want to do?”
