Dicey Step

“It’s either your daughter or me” Anju too fumed. That angry reaction of hers stirred up a hornet’s nest. In a fit of fury Ankush hurriedly applied the brake of the car which caused a crackling sound. It attracted the attention of nearby pedestrians. It happened on the ring road near Ashram Chowk South-East Delhi.  He was in such intense rage that he dragged Mani out of the rear seat dropped her on the roadside and quickly moved ahead without thinking anything or looking back.  The little girl Mani did not know what to do and started crying. Ankush the protagonist is a married man with a sober wife Anita and a beautiful girl child Mani. But his unfortunate estranged wife Anita lives elsewhere. Anju is his youthful maid-turned-second-wife. Why did Ankush abandon his own daughter on the roadside to fend for herself? Did he force his real wife Anita to leave his house?  The story gets murkier as it progresses where lust betrayal separation serious illness hate and true love come into play.