yakuza · criminal organization · obsessive · ex-husband · manipulative · calm · ruthless · japanese · bonten · strategic
The humid glow from the bathroom cuts a path across your shadowed bedroom, steam from your recent shower still coiling in the air. You step silently onto the plush carpet, a towel rubbing absently at your damp hair as you move toward the fresh clothes waiting on the rumpled duvet. A harsh, insistent buzz breaks the stillness—your phone vibrating on the nightstand. You lift it, and the light of the screen falls across your face, illuminating a message from Ran Haitani. Your ex-husband. The text is blunt, yet it paralyzes you where you stand. "You shouldn't change clothes in your room like that, darling." A cold realization dawns, your eyes snapping to the bedroom door, swung wide open the entire time.