The Yakuza’s Mute Bride novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104

(Go back to Naomi Point of View)**

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Ohok-obok…. It’s getting hard to breathe the smoke was everywhere.

It was not the soft kind that drifts larily through the air, not the distant hare of something burning far away.

No, this smoke was alive-thick, choking, invasive. It clawed its way down my throat with every breath I took, burning my lungs, stinging my eyes until tears streamed down my face uncontrollably. The air tasted of ash and panic and something far

worse than fear.

Fire.

I could no longer see the walls clearly. The familiar corridors of the mansion-the ones I had walked so many times under Shun-sama’s gentle gaze, under Tadashi’s quiet protection-had dissolved into shadows and flickering orange light. Everything looked distorted, as though the house itself had become a maze designed to swallow us whole.

My heart hammered violently in my chest.

Every breath felt heavier than the last.

My chest ached

My throat screamed.

And then visibility dropped to almost nothing.

Oh God… The smoke grew so dense that even my outstretched hand vanished before my eyes, and terror surged through me when I realized I no longer knew which direction led outside.

Where was the exit?

Where was Ai

Where was anyone?

My fingers clenched instinctively at empty air as panic tightened its grip around my ribs.

We turned a corner—or at least I thought we did—and suddenly a roar of flame burst dangerously close, heat exploding against my skin like a living thing.

“Ai!” I screamed, my voice cracking as the heat washed over us, scorching and unforgiving.

I felt her hand slip from mine make me gasped.

Then everything happened at once.

Someone collided with me from the opposite direction.

The impact was brutal-solid, deliberate-and it knocked the breath from my lungs in a painful rush. My body stumbled backward, balance lost, my feet skidding against debris I could not see.

Shit!

And then I was falling.

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The floor slammed into my knees and palms, pain shooting shaply through my body as the smoke swallowed me whole, My head spun violently, ears ringing, vision swimming in red and black.

“NAOMI SAN, WHERE ARE YOU?!” AR

Ai’s voice echoed through the chaos, frantic and raw, tearing at mething deep inside my chest.

“Ai-l” I tried to answer.

Oh no, nothing came out.

The smoke stole my voice.

worse than the fire itself. My lungs spasmed painfully as I

All that escaped my throat was a harsh, broken cough that burn sucked in air that felt poisonous, my vision blurring until the weld tilted sickeningly.

I pressed my hand against the floor, trying to push myself up, but my body felt heavy, sluggish, disobedient.

I was alone.

That realization settled over me like a second fire-cold, consuming, absolute.

Then the noise changed. It’s not the crackle of fire nor the chaos of running footsteps. But something else.

Measured steps. Unhurried. Intentional.

A voice emerged from the smoke, calm and sharp, slicing through the chaos with chilling clarity.

“Well… well… well…”

My heart froze. Who?

“Look who we have here.”

That voice.

I knew that voice.

The sound pierced through the haze, and my blood turned to ic as recognition slammed into me with devastating force.

No… It cannot be.

I lifted my head slowly, my body trembling, my eyes burning as tried to see through the smoke.

And then I saw him In disbelief.

Sato.

He stood a few steps away, his silhouette steady against the flickering light, his posture straight, unshaken by the fire raging around us. The familiar lines of his face-once so kind, so paternal-were twisted into something I did not recognize.

Disgust.

Cold judgment.

Hatred.

“The woman who ruined the Masayoshi clan,” he said calmly, his voice dripping with contempt. “The reason for Tadashi’s downfall.”

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My breath caught painfully in my chest.

“Sato-san…?” I whispered, disbelief strangling the word.

This was impossible.

Sato was Shun-sama’s most trusted head butler.

The man who had greeted me with warmth when I first arrived,

The man who remembered my favorite tea.

The man who treated me like family when I had none.

My hands shook violently as I tried to push myself upright.

“Take her.” The command was sharp and absolute.

No hesitation and no doubt which made my heart shattered.

No-!” I tried to cry out, but my voice betrayed me again, dissolving into a hoarse gasp.

Why?

Why Sato?

Why him?

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Hands grabbed me suddenly-rough, unfamiliar hands seizing my arms, my shoulders, my waist. I screamed silently as my body was hauled upright, pain flaring through my limbs as panic surged uncontrollably.

My mind raced, desperate for logic, for explanation, for something that would make sense of this nightmare.

Why betray me?

Why betray Tadashi?

Sato stepped closer, his eyes cold and unwavering as he leaned down until his face was inches from mine.

“You should have never come here,” he said quietly, venom lacing every word. “A foreign woman has no place among us.”

Tears burned behind my eyes, but I refused to let them fall.

Not here.

Not in front of him.

“Quickly,” Sato snapped, turning sharply to the men restraining he. “Tadashi-sama will come.”

The name struck my chest like a blow.

“Move. Move!”

Panic exploded inside me.

Tadashi.

If Tadashi came-If he saw this-My body surged with sudden, desperate strength.

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