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Chapter One

Neha stood at the door to her spacious living room…

Chapter Two

Sonya lay under her duvet and looked around the bedroom…

Chapter Three

By midnight, Neha was so exhausted by her hostess duties…

Chapter Four

The eighteenth birthday party was to be held in the…

Chapter Five

Sharat walked towards the breakfast room, humming a jaunty tune.

Chapter Six

Waking up the day after her party, Sonya studiously avoided…

Chapter Seven

On the evening after her dinner party, Neha mustered the…

Chapter Eight

In the kitchen of the Shaw household, Laura gave her…

Chapter Nine

It was only when she was two hundred kilometres outside…

Chapter Ten

Sonya glowered at Tim from her cross-legged perch on the…

Chapter Eleven

When the floor was icy cold, and Neha’s body had…

Chapter Twelve

Laura watched Sonya throw a handful of cotton bras into…

Chapter Thirteen

Neha sat up, unsure of how many hours had passed…

Chapter Fourteen

Sonya looked down at the massive city that her plane…

Chapter Fifteen

At Delhi’s domestic terminal, Sharat walked past baggage collection and…

Chapter Sixteen

Sonya managed to hold on until they had exited the…

Chapter Seventeen

The therapist indicated that the massage had ended by gently…

Chapter Eighteen

By the time Sonya and Estella had made their way…

Chapter Nineteen

By her third day in Ananda, Neha felt as though…

Chapter Twenty

Later that evening, back in her room at Ananda, Neha…

Chapter Twenty-One

It was 1992, my eighteenth birthday party – the last…

Chapter Twenty-Two

Neha’s voice hung in the air as she finally looked…

Chapter Twenty-Three

Sonya looked up at the towering Qutb Minar, the tip…

Chapter Twenty-Four

Neha watched the landscape change as the car she was…

Chapter Twenty-Five

After Keshav had deposited Sonya and Estella back at the…

Chapter Twenty-Six

Neha replaced the phone receiver with trembling hands. Her heart…

Chapter Twenty-Seven

There were no more tears from Sonya that afternoon, but…

Chapter Twenty-Eight

After her ghastly meeting with Sonya in Lodhi Gardens, Neha…

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Sonya was starting to get uncomfortable lying on the lumpy…

Chapter Thirty

Sharat shot a look at Neha sitting next to him…

Chapter Thirty-One

The Coffee Bean Café at the entrance to Select City…

Chapter Thirty-Two

In the dentist’s waiting room, Neha sat surrounded by dwarf…

Chapter Thirty-Three

Whenever Sharat looked back at that moment, it felt as…

Chapter Thirty-Four

Hours after she had left the Chaturvedi house in such…

Chapter Thirty-Five

Sharat walked into the elegant lobby of the Windsor Manor…

Chapter Thirty-Six

As their taxi pulled into Fatehpur Sikri, Sonya and Estella…

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Back in Delhi, Keshav was sprawled on Gopal’s mattress, sharing…

Chapter Thirty-Eight

After checking in at Delhi Airport on their return from…

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Neha sat by herself in the breakfast room, her mobile…

Chapter Forty

A day after leaving Delhi, Sonya looked at the scene…

Chapter Forty-One

Sharat spent over a week in Bangalore, going on long…

Chapter Forty-Two

Sonya quickened her footsteps as she and Estella pushed their…

Chapter Forty-Three

Sharat sat restlessly in the living room, listening to a…

Chapter Forty-Four

Hello, Neha,

Chapter Forty-Five

It was a dark English morning that threatened snow, and…

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