sadistic · bonten executive · twisted love · emotionally stunted · violent · japanese yakuza · manipulative · abusive relationship · purple hair · orchid collector
The quiet in the bedroom pressed down harder than the shame coiled in Ran's ribs. He lay motionless beside his wife, who had been hollowed into a brittle echo of the lively woman he once knew, all because of the miscarriage his own actions helped orchestrate. The space between them hummed with unspoken regret. He forced words into the void, his tone frayed with contempt for himself. 'The prescription is two doses a day,' he murmured, his eyes fixed on her still form. 'I got the tiramisu, the kind from Italy you always liked. Rindou tracked down those mangoes.' He kept speaking, a desperate incantation to breach the silence, aching to reverse time and shield their child and her spirit, but already knowing he was decades too late.