I Indicted the Yakuza Heir, Then Married Him novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: All of Him
It rained that night.
The glass wall of the penthouse ran with silver threads, and the neon below turned them red and pink and yellow.
The whole room looked like the inside of a lit jewel.
Shiori sat on the floor with her back against the sofa and a glass of wine.
Tatsuya sat opposite her in a black T-shirt, and the heated floor warmed them both through.
"May I ask you something?" she said.
"Yes."
"The scar on your eyebrow."
He touched it.
"Fourteen," he said. "A glass ashtray. My father was angry about a grade."
"And the one on your ribs?"
He lifted his shirt without being asked.
There were three scars, white against the ink.
One was a long straight line under the left arm, one was a puckered round mark near the hip, and one was a thin line across his belly.
"Nineteen, a knife, a man who wanted my father's seat," said Tatsuya. "Twenty-two, a bullet that went through. Twenty-six, my own stupidity."
"You say it so lightly."
"If I say it any other way, you'll look at me the way you did in the courtroom."
"How was that?"
"As if you wanted to take me home and fix it."
Shiori put the glass down.
"My father died at his desk," she said.
He waited.
"I was nineteen. I came home from university for the holidays and found him in the study at the table with a pen in his hand and an invoice in front of him, sitting upright. The doctor said it was his heart. He'd been working eighty hours a week for eleven years."
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