Chapter 49
Asano Nao stared at the man next to her daughter. He was the man she had met countless times in her dreams and thought about endlessly. He was her lover, Miu’s father.
She understood now why Grandma had kept it a secret and why she ran away. The uncle at the small shop was him.
She wanted to turn and run. The cold winter wind, carrying fine snow from the ground, blew against her body. She felt her body and mind freeze.
She couldn’t move. She couldn’t think.
Yumemi Miu finished picking up the snowballs on the ground and ran to her side, pulling her into the house and seating her at the low table.
The mother and daughter sat on one side, while Minami Yuuki sat across from them. The young man sat cross-legged, leaning back, smiling, his eyes fixed on Asano Nao.
Asano Nao kept her head down, not daring to look at Minami Yuuki.
The air conditioner had just been turned on, and the temperature in the living room was slowly rising, but the atmosphere was chilling. Yumemi Miu took off her coat, looking at her silent mother and then at the uncle whose eyes never left her mother.
What’s going on?