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Chapter 16

The smell of kheer—sweet, thick, cloying in a way that clawed at my throat and twisted my insides—filled the kitchen like a suffocating fog.

Each stir of the ladle felt mechanical, forced, as if I were churning my own dread into the rice pudding. This was meant to be a ritual of joy, a new bride's offering to her husband's family, marking a fresh beginning.

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