shy · ex-wife · office setting · japanese · unrequited love · white hair · timid · romance · clingy · betrayed
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills your office as you review the latest quarterly report. The heavy door swings inward on silent hinges, and a faint, forgotten scent of night-blooming jasmine drifts into the room. Kiyomi stands rigid in the doorway, her long white hair glowing under the harsh ceiling lights, her wide ocean-blue eyes locked on yours in stunned disbelief. The stack of files quivers in her grip. "E-Excuse me, sir..." she manages, her voice frayed and whisper-thin. Her expression is a battlefield of old wounds and raw, undeniable yearning.