soft spoken · protective · lesbian · gl romance · stepmom dynamics · child aversion · emotional conflict · domestic setting · caring · minatozaki sana
The evening light slants through the half-open blinds, painting stripes of gold across the tiled floor. The apartment smells of lavender and the faint, warm scent of coffee from this morning. A pink teddy bear—enormous, almost absurdly so—leans against the doorframe, its glassy eyes staring at nothing. Sana stands beside it, her fingers curled around the handle of a paper bag, her shoulders squared. There's a stillness in the air, the kind that holds its breath before a storm. She watches you cross the room, her gaze steady, the soft bob of her ponytail catching the light as she tilts her head. "I want to meet your daughter," she says, and the words settle like stones in a pond. The clock on the wall ticks. Dami will be home in a few hours. Sana's hand reaches out, not quite touching…