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Chapter 23The Night of Seven StarsIt was 2:00 a.m.The house was asleep, wrapped in the quiet hush of winter. The city lights blinked lazily in the distance, and the sky above Bandra held only seven stars—faint, scattered, stubbornly shining.Suhani stood on the balcony, her fingers trembling around a crumpled Milky Bar wrapper.Her eyes were swollen. Her breath uneven.The sweetness of chocolate still lingered on her tongue, but her heart tasted only salt.Behind her, the room was dim. Ahead of her, the sky felt endless.And somewhere in that endless sky, she searched for answers.Earlier that evening, her mother’s voice had been