Before Love, There Was a Secret

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Chapter 1 – The Diary in the Rain Patna was drowning in rain. Not the gentle, rhythmic kind that made you want to stand by the window with a cup of chai, but the relentless kind — heavy, bone-deep, as if the clouds were punishing the city for some forgotten sin. Streets had turned into sluggish rivers, the smell of wet earth clung to every breath, and the sound of splashing tyres mixed with the angry honks of trapped auto-rickshaw drivers.