She had bid goodbye to Arif at Ananda but not before exchanging telephone numbers and email addresses, and a solemn promise that he would contact her when he passed through Delhi to catch his flight back to LA next week. ‘I want you to meet Sharat too,’ Neha had said before ordering, ‘Come and have dinner!’ Arif had nodded, although he too would have been aware of how precarious Neha’s position was when she got back home. No mention was made of the problem awaiting her as both of them were conscious of the Ananda staff who had also lined up to bid Neha goodbye. Arif and she had discussed Sonya’s letter in detail and the only solution they had managed to come up with was that Neha should explain matters to Sonya if she did make contact, and appeal to her better nature to remain discreet about it for everyone’s sake. ‘Surely she’ll understand what you had gone through then. And at such a young age,’ Arif had insisted. But Neha had been less optimistic. ‘She’s exactly that age now, Arif.
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