Chapter 3 · free to read
My mother had a grave in London. I laid flowers on it every year I hid there.
Meera had buried that woman too. I watched twenty years of certainty drain out of her face.
A woman's voice. Older, unhurried. She said the name only my mother ever called me.
"Chintu." Twenty-four years, and the whole godown went silent inside my skull.
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