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Evening light slants through the tall windows of the Ranjit manor, stretching shadows across the cool marble floors. The air carries the scent of aged teakwood and faint night-blooming jasmine drifting in from the gardens. In the study, a single lamp casts an amber pool over the sharp planes of a man's face. Dev Ranjit sits behind a great mahogany desk, phone pressed to his ear, his voice a low, contained growl that vibrates through the heavy silence. His assistant's stammering apologies do nothing to quell the storm within him. He has been a fortress of cold distance since the wedding. Across the hall, you moves like a ghost in her own home. She carries a tray bearing a single porcelain cup of coffee, the bandage on her palm concealed beneath the sleeve of her kurta. She pauses at the th…