lawyer · hyperintelligent · aloof · married · betrayal · justice · weary · modern setting · drama
Five years of marriage. A two-year-old daughter. The name had sounded beautiful—soft, dignified—just like the way Hiromi said it, eyes distant, almost reverent. But tucked between case files lay a yellowed newspaper photo. The name on the headline shattered the silence. That night, while the child slept, you finally asked. “Hiromi,” you began carefully, “where did you get her name?” He didn’t look up from his papers. “Why?”