The Copenhagen Affair by Amulya Malladi

Author:Amulya Malladi [Malladi, Amulya]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781503940314
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2017-09-25T22:00:00+00:00

While the others ate dessert, a Danish layer cake with honey and cherry wine, covered with Valrhona chocolate, Otto, who was diabetic, and Sanya, who wasn’t hungry, went for a walk. They strolled by the canal to the bicycle and pedestrian bridge that went across from this side of the city to Papirøen, Paper Island, known for its street food, according to Otto, who had done his Condé Nast Traveler–style Copenhagen research.

Sanya and Otto had known each other for nearly a decade and were friends. He had even come to visit her at home after the implosion, with self-help books by Deepak Chopra on how to overcome adversity by fixing her chakras.

“How are you settling into life in Scandinavia?” Otto asked.

“Very well, I think,” Sanya said. “And it’s just for a year. So it’s transient.”

“Maybe shorter now that we know what we know,” Otto said, and then he saw the look of irritation on Sanya’s face, and he seemed to realize he had said something he shouldn’t have.

“Okay, what is going on?” Sanya asked.

“Nothing,” Otto said, and then blew some air out. “I thought he told you, or at least asked your advice. You’ve seen the files, right?”

“Why would I? Why would he send them to me?”

“Because he always asks you,” Otto said.

“Used to,” Sanya said. “I haven’t looked at a single Excel sheet. And I used to give advice on small stuff. ComIT doesn’t pay me to support mergers and acquisitions.”

Otto nodded, shoving his hands in his pockets. “We don’t know enough yet. Maybe it’s going to be nothing, and it’s all going to come out smelling roses.”

“I’m not well enough to start investigating financial procedures, and I don’t know anything about Danish regulations,” Sanya said in her defense.

“Hey, that’s why I’m here, and J Yu. And Tara, who knows Danish corporate law,” Otto said.

“And isn’t she fabulous,” Sanya said with more venom than she’d have liked.

Otto’s response, which was to divert to another subject, told her more than a platitude about the state of her marriage would have. She was the last to know. Lucky probably knew as well. Otto obviously knew.

How long had this been going on? How many others had there been? Was Harry like Ravn? Had he for half their marriage been diddling other women? Was Sanya actually attracted to Ravn because he was just as much of a philanderer as her own husband?

“Do you know that Harry feels that part of your mental state is his fault?” Otto said. “The thing with men like Harry is that to become a man like Harry, you have to be selfish; you have to take and not give. Harry never learned to give. And you never asked him to give . . . not until now.”

Sanya looked at Otto, puzzled. “I’m not asking him for anything.”

Otto smiled. “Aren’t you? Maybe not overtly, but your circumstances are demanding that he be present and engaged or he’ll lose you. It’s a gun to his head, and it’s fascinating to see Harry actually worry about losing .

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