An unruly drop of tear slid down her cheek and she immediately wiped it off with her sleeves. She was the sort of a girl whose heart was clear like glass, but she always tried to make herself opaque to people, for people to think of her as hard and unbreakable like metal.
Raymond saw her and recollected how she cried the same way trying to hide away her tears on their way back to New York. She had used her sleeves the exact same way that she did now. His heart felt like it would explode to see her in pain. His fists were clenched and his jaws tightened. He just wanted to embrace her, but with Vikram in the room, he just couldn't.
She summoned all the God's to give her the courage to stay put. She drank Vikram's words like a bottle of poison and died from within. She was disappointed with Vikram but what she was unable to bear was the fact that Raymond hid it from her.
She turned towards Vikram and asked,
"You never told me about it?"
