The captive Camelia; A golden cage is still a cage

Camelia

I was stolen. I was ripped away from the life I knew and my mother and dragged to a world I never asked for-a world of traditions and steel, blood and betrayal.

My father, a Yakuza king, demands my obedience. My fate? A marriage to a cruel stranger.

But my gaze keeps finding him.

Shion Harukawa. My shadow. My jailer. My father's perfect enforcer. He watches me like I'm a problem he needs to solve-cold, disciplined, untouchable.

But I see the way his jaw tightens when I push him. The flicker of something dangerous in his eyes when I get too close. He is my captor. And if I have to burn this world down to be free, I'll make him my first sin.

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Shion

She was never meant to be mine.

I was ordered to protect Camelia Arisaka, I was her bodyguard and she is my duty, nothing more. But from the moment she looked at me with defiance instead of fear, I knew-she would ruin me.

She is a reckless, untamed fire wrapped in silk. A problem I should break before she burns us all. But I don't. I watch her. Protect her. Want her.

And when she tempts me to cross the line, I know one truth-I was never her jailer.

She was always my undoing.

⚠️ Trigger Warnings
⚠ Kidnapping & Forced Relocation
⚠ Manipulation
⚠ Violence & Torture
⚠ Murder & Bloodshed
⚠ Suicide (Mentioned and Impactful to Plot)
⚠ Sexual Tension & Explicit Content