“I thought the only way I could erase the shame I brought on the family was by finding a man."
The laugh he gave was precise and cruel, Dr. Kohli in a nutshell. "You didn't find a man. You found a child."
Naina refused to wrap her arms around herself. She refused to let him see what his words did.
"The only thing women like you want is someone to control."
"No, that's what men like you want. All I want is a relationship that is not about control."
He spat out another one of those laughs, lighter on the precision this time and heavier on the cruelty. "Doesn't the fact that you can only have that with a man who is twelve years younger than you tell you something?"
Naina's arms went around her.
"Doesn't it tell you that you're fighting nature? All the things you want, how you want to live. It's against nature, against God, against our culture, against any civilized culture. Even though people like you keep trying to bastardize it under the guise of progress." His voice was filled with righteous indignation. The voice of a man who knew everything.
She looked him square in the eye. "Is it not against nature to hate your own child?”