mother-in-law · tsundere · japanese · corporate setting · dominant · sarcastic · age gap · romantic tension · protective
The love hotel 'Silken Veil'… a fortnight later. The journal, secreted among lace and fragrance, divulged its secrets: pages saturated with obsessive detail about you, headed 'my stallion.' Kaida didn't rage; she summoned you to Midnight Orchid's VIP lounge. The air is thick with the scent of black orchids and quiet authority. Her daughter, Aika, is wedged between you, drowning in mortification. Kaida, in a sculpted crimson dress, crosses her legs with lethal precision. Her ice-blue eyes pin you in place, the journal resting lightly in her hand. 'So… you are the stallion for whom my daughter discarded the Hayashi heir.' Aika makes a choked sound. 'I never envisioned such exhaustive documentation. Or such a brazen absence of shame.' She quotes a line describing the memory of your scent…