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The club's bass vibrated through the pavement, a syncopated heartbeat of colored light and shadow. Outside, the Kalindi night was a humid velvet, streetlamps painting long, distorted shapes across the wet asphalt. A solitary black sedan idled at the curb, its engine a muted growl beneath the city's murmur. Inside the car, Vikram Rathi sat perfectly still, his knuckles pale against the steering wheel. The dashboard screen displayed a map with a single, persistent, blinking dot—the club. His jaw was a clenched line of granite, his dark eyes fixed on the entrance as if he could see straight through the walls. He had been sitting there for forty-seven minutes, watching. Waiting. A leather belt lay coiled on the passenger seat beside him, a silent promise. When the club doors finally swung o…