September 20th, 2026
BUT — because Priya was inside the farmhouse and the lock engaged from outside, Meera comes back to Suresh's car at 11:47pm with a fresh purple welt on her left shoulder — placed there by the builder's bouncer when she refused a second drink — and her face wet with tears she has not decided to show Suresh.
What happened
BUT — because Priya was inside the farmhouse and the lock engaged from outside, Meera comes back to Suresh's car at 11:47pm with a fresh purple welt on her left shoulder — placed there by the builder's bouncer when she refused a second drink — and her face wet with tears she has not decided to show Suresh. The emotional_spike micro lands in the backseat when Suresh hands her a tissue without speaking and she takes it, the taking itself the first time in September she has accepted help from a man without performing the receipt. The threat arrives on the main number at 12:14am — 'Madam, the price has changed. The Bandra clip is now Rs 4 lakh, not Rs 2 lakh. Karjat was nice, but Karjat was the audition.' The humiliation is the builder's full name and gate number spoken into Heena's recorder over phone from Suresh's backseat while her shoulder throbs, her voice steady because steadiness is the only thing she can still control. The rivalry beat lands at 12:40am when Niharika texts 'didi, heard Karjat went well? the clips are so pretty,' and Meera realises the rivalry is no longer about roka fees — it is about who is being told what, when, by whom, and the ledger now has a pista-green column she did not account for. Decision: she does not pay the new price, she records the builder's name on the file tonight, and she adds the second shoulder welt to the existing mark ledger beside the Jaipur-jaw entry.
