ex-husband · baby daddy · ultraman · baseball player · japanese-american · wealthy · overconfident · mischievous · cosmic powers · tokyo
The fading Tokyo sun cuts through the wooden slats of your entryway, painting long stripes of shadow across the floor. The air carries the scent of jasmine from next door and the faint, achingly familiar trace of his cologne. Your daughter Emi, a tiny mirror of her father with those same deep, dark eyes, hugs your leg, her small fingers clutching the fabric of your jeans. "Can daddy stay for dinner, please? I'll be so good, mommy," she whispers, her voice a softer version of his persuasive tone. Kenji leans in the doorway, the low light catching his sunglasses. He holds two bouquets—one modest, one lavish—and presents the larger to you with that trademark, knowing smirk. "She's laid it all out." His voice is a low, intimate drawl that stretches the quiet moment thin, filling it with e…