23 In-Car Drama. . .

The luxury car cruised gently down the road, driven by Tomoe Shiba's personal guard. The man had a face harder than stale bread. Seated at the back were Yuuki and Tomoe, who had been silent all this time. Yuuki would give her a side-eye, she'd smile at him, and then continue pressing her phone. The silence felt uncomfortable, so Yuuki decided to speak.

"So, uh, you're not in your uniform?"

He sounded slightly concerned.

It wasn't that he was concerned in any sense, but the situation just seemed so awkward he didn't know what else to say.

Tomoe took her eyes off her phone, and her pretty blue eyes looked at him from top to bottom like she was seeing if he was ready for something. . . or anything.

"Well, I only just finished a very early morning meeting. I can't show up there in a uniform or it'd leave everyone confused."

Yuuki scratched his chin and looked at the tinted glass.

"I suppose..."

Everything still felt very uncomfortable for him.

Tomoe then pushed a button, and a partition appeared between the back section and front section of the car.

It blocked them from the driver's sight.

Privacy. . .

"Huh?" said Yuuki, confused.

Tomoe slowly slid her jacket off her shoulders, revealing the smooth curve of her neck and the delicate lines of her collarbone. Each movement was deliberate and enticing, as the fabric glided down her arms, exposing the subtle, yet sexy tenderness of her muscles underneath. With a subtle flick of her wrist, the jacket slipped off completely, pooling at her feet as she sat there, attractive as ever.

When Yuuki saw this, his eyebrows quickly climbed up his forehead.

"Um, Miss, I mean... Mrs. Shiba, what're yo──"

Tomoe gently pressed her finger against his lips and leaned in to whisper in his ear, "Shhhh, don't let my guard know what we're doing. My husband wouldn't like that."

"Hu, Hus, husband──!?" Yuuki stuttered heavily.

He only just lost his virginity yesterday.

He wasn't ready to become a tool in an older woman's sexual fantasies and also become the cause of a divorce.

Still, it was hard for him not to succumb.

She was simply too close.

He could feel her full lips pressing against his ear.

The hotness of her breath with each word that left her mouth.

They felt like moans.

And mostly, the sexiness of her voice.

"So, now that we have the backseat to ourselves. . . what do you feel like doing~ ❤️"

Tomoe seductively leaned even closer to the young man.

Her thirsty gaze locked with his calm brown eyes.

Her fingers lightly traced his jawline as she kept blowing her warm breath against his ear and neck.

"Come on, answer me. . . Tanaka~"

With a subtle smile, she slowly moved her hand down his chest, and like they had a mind of their own, her fingers slowly started to unbutton his shirt.

"Uh, M, Mrs Shiba?"

"Call~ me~ Tomoe~❤️. . ." she moaned out.

Her lips gently edged for his own.

Little by little, their lips started to meet, but it was more Tomoe pulling Yuuki in for a soft kiss. However, at the last minute, the young man was able to shift his face to the side, causing Tomoe's lips to press against his cheek.

"Jeez!"

Yuuki exclaimed as he started buttoning up his shirt.

The only person he was disappointed in was himself, no one else.

What's wrong with me these days?! Since when did I start giving women a headstart on my body before I turn them down?! Sigh. . . this needs to stop, Tanka.

He glanced at Tomoe, who appeared quite lost.

Tomoe settled back into her chair and crossed her long legs.

"Hmm, this is strange. I thought every young boy's dream was to get touched in indescribable ways by an older woman... it's a bit unfortunate."

She said, then gave him a coquettish side-eye.

"It could've been our little secret~❤️..."

Yuuki cleared his throat and replied, "Well, Mrs. Shiba, it's not that you're not attractive enough to wrap younger men between your legs, but it's more like it's a whole different story when you're a married woman."

Tomoe tilted her head, puzzled.

"Married? What... do you mean?"

Yuuki, after dressing in his uniform, pointed to the expensive diamond ring on her finger.

"You know, marriage... the reason you have that ring on your finger-the one given to you by your husband?"

Tomoe's gaze shifted to the ring on her finger, and a small frown creased her face.

She didn't respond to Yuuki; instead, she pushed down the window glass to look outside.

"I almost forgot I was married to that man," she murmured.

It was the first time Yuuki had heard her speak in this manner.

Though they'd only spoken twice, he hadn't expected her voice to sound so. . . depressed.

Even her usual lazy yet sexually appealing look wasn't there; she just seemed bored.

However, as soon as her dissatisfied expression appeared, it vanished when she looked back at Yuuki.

"We should head to school. I'll make sure to drop you off somewhere private so students don't see us together and assume something else, okay?"

Yuuki began to respond, "Uh, yeah, that woul──" but paused when his smartphone started to ring.

Pulling it out from his pocket, he saw that it was Mai calling him.

"Oh, damn! It's Mai!"

Tomoe noticed the troubled expression on Yuuki's face when he received the call and leaned in smoothly to see who it was.

"Hm, Mai? Who's she?"

Tomoe leaned even closer, her breasts no longer held back by her jacket, pressing against Yuuki's arm.

"Is she your girlfriend?"

While she did ask calmly, the mischievous smile on her face made Yuuki even more concerned.

Still, Yuuki knew that if he didn't pick up the call, Mai would likely lash out at him in the worst way possible. Considering Yasuda didn't like lying, Mai must have been told that he entered the car with Tomoe. There was no other way out of it but to simply face his girlfriend's wrath.

"Hello?" said Yuuki after accepting the call.

"HRRRMMM!"

Yuuki could hear Mai grunting over the phone.

"H-hey... sweetie?"

"Don't 'hey sweetie' me! Yasuda told me you got into Mrs. Shiba's car and you guys took a different route to school, is that true?!"

"Well, I wouldn't say..."

Not giving Yuuki to fully get a word in, Tomoe coolly snatched the phone from Yuuki's hand and placed the speaker to her ear.

"Are you Mai?"

Her voice was always a calm and easy-going one.

Rather, you could also interpret her voice as effortless and sexy. . . in the sense that she didn't put any effort into speaking with anyone and would naturally sound sexually appealing.

Mai grit her teeth over the phone when she heard Tomoe's voice.

She gulped down her anger.

"Umh, Mrs. Shiba?"

"Yes? Little girl?" Tomoe answered.

The fact that she'd just been called a 'little girl' almost turned Mai flammable.

Her eyebrows knotted together and she forced a chuckle with so much suppressed anger.

"Aren't you a married woman? Or I don't know, too old to be doing anything indecent with a young man like my sweet Yuu──"

Tomoe cut her short, softly replying, "Don't worry, I don't plan to touch your boyfriend. He and I. . . were just having a nice chat in my car. I decided to treat him to a ride since he didn't report me some days ago."

Mai tilted her head, almost feeling like she was there talking with Tomoe.

"Report you? W, wh, what do you mean?"

Tomoe bit the tip of her index finger.

"I was doing some nasty things to myself~ and it seems our Yuuki was quite fine with it all the while he listened to my moans and heard the splashing waters of my experienced flower..."

A giggle left her mouth next.

Mai's eyes went wide like a wild animal.

"Did you just call my precious Yuuki by his given name?!"

"Why yes, it sounded much more sexier that way."

The rage on Mai's face disappeared and she looked completely blank.

"Is everything okay?" Yasuda asked uninterestedly.

"Everything's peachy!"

Mai smashed her smartphone on the ground and adjusted her backpack.

She walked into school with very rigid steps that no one would even there stop her for a quick conversation.

Erosa sighed as she rubbed her temples.

"Yuuki... you better have a plan."