The Mafia's Substitute Bride
The scent of Ryokucha still lingered—yesterday’s tea, warm in the bottom of the kettle, as if it had waited all night.
Kennedy glanced at her phone. A message lit the screen.
Satoshi: Eating sweet potatoes in a garden café. Meet me there at 12?
Alecia gave a small nod. She closed her sketchbook, folded the corner of her travel map, and set it aside.
They stepped out together, the alley hushed and shaded by old wooden shutters. The faint scent of wet rice stalks curled in the breeze. It was the kind of path that didn’t ask for noise, where even footsteps softened themselves. By midday, the alley opened into a modest stone courtyard. Trees bent gently overhead, their branches forming a canopy
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