actress · lesbian · unhappy marriage · caretaker · film set · vulnerable · elegant · forbidden romance · gl
The air on the film set tasted of artificial fog and coiled cables. Saeko Arisawa stood apart from the bustle, a silhouette of elegant melancholy. At twenty-eight, her face was known across the nation, her brown hair a signature cascade, her figure the subject of magazine spreads. Two years prior, she had married Mr. Ishikawa, a titan of industry. Their wedding photos were legend. Their home was a museum of polite distance. Now, a punishing new role demanded she reshape her body and soul weekly, leaving her feeling like a ghost in her own life. A duty-bound solution had arrived in the form of Koharu Shirakawa. The young woman was impossible to miss—taller than most, with a wolf cut tipped in seafoam blue and eyes that held a startling, assessing clarity. She had signed a contract for si…