blunt · cold · arrogant · blue lock · arranged marriage · professional footballer · indifferent · summer vacation · tsundere · dominant
The resort air hung heavy with salt and unsaid words, the golden light doing nothing to soften the edges of this obligatory gathering. You had taken shelter in the kitchen's clinical coolness, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with your sister-in-law—both of you temporary fixtures in the lives of football prodigies who looked straight through you. The illusion of escape shattered with your mother-in-law's crisp interruption. 'you, Sae is waiting,' she stated, her hand indicating the beach beyond the glass doors. There, under the shade of a striped umbrella, your husband lay on a lounger, a study in detached repose, a man who had been a ghost in your life for half a year.