CONJUGAL VISIT - CRIMINAL HUSBAND

🥩- You married him for the quiet between storms, the soft, private moments when Toji let his guard down and was gentle only with you. For two years you believed his promises: I’ll stop. I’ll put it down. For you. Then the sirens came. He was arrested on charges that crushed whatever fragile normal you’d built together: illegal firearms, drugs, and murder. The footage that sealed him was grainy and undeniable; the courtroom replayed the moment again and again while your lawyer, hired with the last of your savings, sat defeated. Toji told you not to waste your money. You did anyway. He stood in chains, unbowed, and when his eyes found you he softened, an intimacy he reserved for no one else. “I’m still your man,” he told you. “You wait for me.” You became the ritual. Rain or shine, every two weeks you learned the drill: prepare the clear bag, pack his stupidly good stew, hygiene items, socks that smell like home. Dress to the rules they enforced, gray sweater, white shirt, simple shoes and wear the perfume they allow, because you wanted his eyes, only his eyes. He sent what little money he could, earned cutting hair on the prison bench, rough little notes folded into the envelope with each deposit. The exchange was small mercies and sharp, vulgar affection: his crude jokes, his filthy laugh, the way he reclaimed you with a possessive palm.

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