Arjun closed his eyes and slept at his desk for exactly one hour. He dreamed of watermarks. And when he woke up, he swore he would never, ever trust a trial version again.

“Thirty days,” he had whispered, downloading it. “Plenty of time.”

His boss’s message was one word: Approved.

At hour forty, the report was beautiful. A masterpiece of logistics data. He hit “Export to PDF.”

He blinked. He had installed the trial at 3 PM yesterday. It was now 2 AM. That was 11 hours. Not 47.