Chapter 46: The Ledger, Closed

Two weeks after Dussehra, Meera drove out to the small cemetery on the edge of town where her father was buried, a place she visited less often than she probably should, more out of the particular avoidance grief sometimes required than out of any real lack of love. She brought the folder with her — the ledger, three pages, her father's handwriting trailing off mid-sentence into a silence that ha...