85 years have passed since the tempestuous romance between Duke and PIku made them leave their motherland.
India in 2025 is unrecognizable.
Everything is different with sweeping social changes that began with the country's independence. But what h...
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Chapter 19
A Don's love !
This Sunday night brought a storm but ultimately peace in the lives of many .
The peace of truths revealed , of assured knowledge , that even though life would never really be smooth sailing and trouble free , there would always be certain things in it which would make it truly worth living.
The biggest of such things was hope . Hope for a better future for some , of lasting happiness for others .
Donna was about to come to a momentous decision because of this very feeling . Her hope for lasting happiness was compelling her to make an important decision .
She got engaged to the boyfriend she'd been dating for more than 10 years .
She had met and started casually dating this hot young accountant , Surya . He was from the state of Uttar Pradesh and was from a traditional priestly clan who still ran a temple in the small town on the banks of the Ganges river .
While his family were unaware about this relationship , things went smoothly . She dated Surya without any particular desire to be with him forever , always thinking that the romance will fizzle out that Surya would cheat or she would find someone hotter and ditch him . But that never seemed to happen .
One day Surya's family informed him that they had shortlisted a selection of UP beauties to choose from and wed . Surya refused outright and told them that he had a girlfriend and had no intention of marrying someone unknown to him through this archaic system . Donna was impressed but still not particularly moved .
They were still together 5 years later when Patty called Donna and invited her to join him in his family firm . Donna was eager to return to her city of birth . She'd had enough of ghost writing for her boss who never gave her any credit for her hard work and went after her with the zeal of a slave driver . But there was only one hitch . This would mean a long distance relationship with her boyfriend at best or a break off at worst .
This time around, Surya surprised her . He quit his job and followed her to Kolkata where he found a small independent accounting firm and bought a partnership in it . Life settled in to a simple rhythm of work , movie and dinner dates , getting drunk on Saturday nights at club Eternity and sleeping together in Surya's tiny apartment in Kasba . Donna stayed with her parents during the weekdays and spent the weekends with Surya , both perfectly content in this simple setup .
In this manner half a decade went by and one day they woke up to realize that they were both in their thirties and still not married . In the meantime their friends had gotten married and had become parents .
Now these friends spent their time talking about the color of their baby's poop and conducted lengthy discussions of their wonderful babies and shared videos of their cooings and chortles . Donna realized that she wanted that too .
