After the Last Goodbye (3).
Link to previous part - Previous part. Manasi glanced on the hoarding at the corner of the street that read, "A girl is not a burden...She is a beginning". She got seated in the car. The face of the that little girl was still fresh in front of her eyes. She touched the clover of the keychain. Turning on the radio, she drove off. "Zindagi...kaisi yeh paheli haye......kabhi yeh hasaye, kabhi yeh rulaye......". "What better a song than this right now!", she thought. Her phone buzzed and she stopped the car at the roadside. "Where are you dear? Did you see what time it is? Did you get the fabric? When are you reaching?", a barrage of questions came her way, in a blaring tone. Manasi held the phone far from her ears, "Kripa, dear, give me a breather, will you? I'm on my way to the office. Will reach asap". Manasi hung up. She parked the car in the designated parking in the basement of her office building. The building was a commercial...