Entitlement

by Rumaan Alam

You had to choose to find it charming.

She wished him to know that she was comfortable sitting alone in a restaurant, but also someone who did not have to. She

Rachel said this was interesting the way people did.

She wanted to be asked to stay but she also wanted to simply be home.

Ghalyela was a philosopher. She didn’t know how secure the future ever was. Money was a hedge against that, just like faith, or superstition, or the thousand other strategies people used to survive a day.