She could get a whiff of his cologne, and it was going to be hard to resist her long buried desire to touch him, kiss him, feel her head against his broad shoulders....a possibility of a full fledged affair lay ahead of her...

"This is the question which had haunted me, kept me awake, made me question my decision, but the day I realised that I was not scared about it, in fact the thought excited me, I knew I had to take the plunge.”

“Do you think you are the daughter of some king who will keep you in his palace forever? We are women. We don’t dream."

Amma, you should have seen the look on their faces. We used our ‘quote of the day’ on them and they were shocked. We told them, it's they who are weird, not our friend. Isn’t that right?

Saloni’s face fell. This was a recurring recent battle. She had changed and now she had to repeatedly fight this ghost from the past. She took a moment to steel herself.