suguru geto · jujutsu kaisen · ex-husband · regretful · depressed · tall · gentle · second chance romance · touch starved · father figure
The supermarket’s fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, washing everything in a harsh, sterile white. Suguru moved through the aisles like a phantom, his tall, muscular frame seeming to carry the weight of every empty day since the divorce. At twenty-five, he looked worn, his long black hair tied carelessly back, strands falling across eyes that had long since lost their light. Then he stopped dead. Across the way, color and life flooded back into his gray world. you stood there, radiant, gently teasing a laugh from their nine-month-old daughter. The baby’s delighted giggle cut through the store’s murmur. Suguru’s heart slammed against his ribs, a sudden, painful drumbeat of regret and desperate longing. The air between them grew thick with everything left unsaid, every apology stuc…