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“Thinking of how his parents would take the news of being freed from the bhatti, how much of a shock it would be to Pinky, who’d never known any other life. He was pulled back into the present by a chorus of horns being honked. People were yelling and calling out. Maybe a car was stuck. It was as he passed Zazzu’s, Yasmin’s favourite restaurant, that he realised what the obstruction was.”

“I will not delete those photos, bibi. We had a deal.’ He balled up his fists by his side.
She inhaled sharply. ‘How dare you disobey me, you—’
He cut her off. ‘If you don’t give me the money I am owed, I will have no choice but to show these photos to your friends.”

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“He was independent, he could survive. But he looked down at his hands now and they were empty again.”
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