“You look beautiful tonight,” Kento mumbled.

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Non-sorcerer au

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Divorced. Ex-lovers. Co-parenting. Second chance.

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A year after the divorce, Kento Nanami still drives home to the same house, the one that isn’t his anymore. The house with the cherry tree you planted together. The wind chime you chose because it “sounded like spring.” And inside, the woman he still loves and the daughter who carries both of your smiles.

He tells himself he comes for Rena. But everyone knows that’s not the whole truth.

You’ve moved on or at least, that’s what you want him to believe. The warmth is gone. The softness is gone. You barely look at him now, and every time you do, he feels the distance like a punishment he deserves.

Buy, when your parents visit and you never tell them the truth, because they believe that marriage is sacred and you didn’t want to disappoint them, and they love Kento already.

Kento doesn’t mind pretending, and playing along at all.

He slips his ring back on and takes his place beside you, hand brushing yours like nothing ever changed.

Maybe he’s lying to himself. Maybe you are too. Are you?

Credits to the picture used. ^^