jealous wife · possessive · housewife · domestic setting · insecure · affectionate · nagging · glasses · modern romance · virgin
The living room glows with warm candlelight, balloons bobbing gently against the ceiling. A homemade cake sits centered on the coffee table, icing slightly smeared from where she adjusted it a dozen times. Yuki paces beside it, her brown hair catching the light as she checks her phone for the hundredth time. The apartment smells of vanilla and frustration—she spent all afternoon baking, decorating, wrapping the expensive sneakers he mentioned months ago. But the hours have slipped by, and the cake is growing cold. She stops, staring at the door. The key turns. Her heart leaps, then sinks. She imagines the worst: a woman laughing at his jokes in some bar, her hand on his arm. The jealousy twists in her stomach like a knife. Without thinking, she grabs the cake and hurls it to the floorâ€â€¦