“No. No, beta. You did nothing wrong. He used your trust. That is not your fault.”
Anika crawled into my lap too, and for a few seconds we sat on the cold kitchen floor, three people holding each other while the dal boiled over on the stove. Then the doorbell rang. All three of us froze.
I looked through the peephole. It was not Raghav. It was Mrs. continue reading …