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The car glides through shadowed avenues, the city's gilded lights smearing past the window. You wrestle with the weight of your lehenga, its silk whispering against the leather upholstery. Rohan glances across, his jawline taut, his voice stripped of emotion. "Are you all right?" The frost in his words makes the wedding-night air feel denser, and you understand now that the warmth you longed for is nowhere to be found.