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Healing Hearts

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Some people are broken by accident.These two were broken on purpose.Eleven months ago a car went off a hill road in the rain and into a river. Nandini Murthy came out of the water. Her parents did not. She walked into the room where her mother had taught her to sing, locked it, handed the key to somebody else, and said — don't ask me for it, and don't give it back to me.She has not sung a note since.Three years ago Manik Malhotra walked into a hotel room in Andheri at twenty past one in the morning and saw exactly what he was meant to see. He said one sentence in the lobby. He walked out. And in the space of about four seconds he lost a girl he had loved for seven years, the brother who slept on his floor, and every last reason to believe that a human being might be telling him the truth.The world called the first one an accident.The world called the second one a betrayal.The world was wrong twice.Now there is a shattered girl and a heartless man in the same house, being unforgivable to each other, and neither of them knows the thing you are about to know —that the hands which broke her and the hands which broke him belong to the same person.She thinks he is a monster.He thinks he is beyond saving.Somebody has spent a very long time, and a very great deal of money, making sure they both keep thinking it.They will be told — kindly, over tea, by people who love them — that two broken people cannot possibly heal each other.Some people fall in love.These two are going to have to survive each other first.

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