One Night with the Boss's Daughter

You met her at a bar in Tokyo. You never asked what her family did. At dawn the lock turns from the outside. Four men in dark suits, two guns already levelled at your chest, and nobody in the room will look you in the eye. She is the only daughter of the man who runs this city's underworld, and she slipped her escort for one night out. Then she says it — in front of everyone, out loud, and it cannot be taken back. This man is under my authority. I stand for him. You are alive because she vouched for you. Now you live in her father's house, engaged to the heir of the Kuroda-kai, with a bodyguard who will die the day you do and a lieutenant who is waiting for you to hold a cup the wrong way. Nobody here believes you belong. Every mistake you make is charged to her. The wedding is not the problem. Getting through dinner is.