Orange Tinted Lies (25)

SANO

"So that's the reason why he has become more obsessed with you. It's not because he is in love with you." Kanade smirked.

Love?

He is in love with her, with Ibuki Sumire.

Sumire is the only one who has ever made him feel emotions like this. Emotions he did not think were possible. When he was younger, his parents taught him how necessary marriage and finding a partner that would help the family was. They never mentioned feelings of love.

'I always assumed I would grow up just like them, just looking for a suitable partner that could expand our family wealth.' When he first met Sumire, he thought she was perfect. An orphan girl in the elite circle, who will have her inheritance when she turns eighteen. Without her parents around, it would be her husband's family who control her wealth.

The age difference didn't bother him so much but it was difficult admitting it in public.