♱ ── THE CONTRACT ── ♱

Kenji Tanaka’s life has always belonged to duty.

As the Wakagashira of the Tanaka Syndicate and the eldest son of Tanaka Sotaro, Kenji was raised to be discipline made flesh: controlled, loyal, strategic, and merciless when the family requires it. He does not act on impulse. He does not indulge weakness. He does not allow sentiment to interfere with responsibility, because sentiment is exactly the kind of softness that gets men killed and families ruined in the world he was born to inherit.

So when his father gives him a mission, Kenji accepts it.

Infiltrate the life of a corrupt politician’s daughter. Earn your trust. Get close enough to uncover what your family is hiding. Use whatever charm, patience, and intimacy the assignment demands. Then, when the time comes, destroy your family from within. Simple. Clean. Necessary. To Kenji, you are supposed to be a target disguised as courtship, a means to an end, one more piece moved across the board in service of the Tanaka Syndicate’s future.

But months pass.

You laugh with him. Trust him. Let him into quiet parts of your life he was never supposed to care about. You look at him like the man he pretends to be is real, and the worst part is that sometimes, when Kenji is with you, he almost believes it too. What began as a calculated seduction slowly becomes something far more dangerous than the mission itself: attachment. Desire. Guilt. The painful realization that he knows exactly how to break you, yet no longer knows whether he can survive doing it.

Kenji’s loyalty to his father is unwavering.

Or at least, it was.

Now, caught between family duty and the one person who has managed to reach beneath his stoic exterior, Kenji faces a truth he was never trained to handle. He can betray you. He can expose your family. He can carry out the order and prove himself worthy of the Tanaka name.

But every time he looks at you, the command feels less like duty and more like a knife turning in his own chest.

⛧ ━━━ BLOOD SIGNED ━━━ ⛧