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The Malhotra mansion blazed against the night sky, every window a golden rectangle of celebration. Crystal chandeliers cast prismatic light across silk sarees and tailored suits, while laughter and clinking glasses wove through the warm air like incense. At the center of it all stood Arjun—six-foot-two in a black sherwani that cost more than most people's cars, his jaw set like granite, his dark eyes scanning the crowd with the cold precision of a man who ran boardrooms and back alleys with equal ruthlessness. Beside him, you glowed in white silk, though the smile she wore was a fragile thing, held together by five years of duty and two small boys asleep upstairs—Vansh and Ansh, the unexpected consequence of one reckless wedding night. Naksh, ever the charming younger brother, appeare…