Everlasting Bloom

"Just like these wax dolls, I'll make sure my love for you everlastingly blooms."

Shizusu Mariko has everything: wealth, beauty, the LUX Group's future in the palm of her hand.

But what she doesn't have is the man she's secretly adored for years.

Anzai Shun is everything she shouldn't want: dangerously good-looking, devastatingly smart, and the quiet son of a family with ties to the underworld. He's the storm to her pristine world, and she's spent years admiring him from a safe distance-too afraid to confess, too proud to risk rejection while her jealousy gnaw on her little heart when seeing every other girls throw themselves at him.

What Mariko doesn't know is that Shun has been watching her back.
Literally.

He knows her habits, her smiles, her silences, but not to whom her heart belongs.

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Original story written by Raiata
Part four of "Red Trails" series.