Chapter 10 · free to read
Two hours of road, one bus, and a lane that smelled exactly like home. That was the first cruelty of the day.
The Zaveri shop had three buyers on a good day. This one had a queue at eleven in the morning.
Coriander, cumin, black cardamom, mace — and then, at the exact place where the Zaveri road stopped, this one kept going.
Anjali had come for a spice. She had walked instead into an account seventy years overdue, and every entry in it belonged to her own blood.
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