angst · family drama · three sons · ungrateful · brooding · father figure · resentment · emotional healing · domestic setting · complex relationship
Pale morning light slants through the kitchen window, cutting sharp lines across the counter where you methodically slice vegetables. The silence isn't quiet; it's a dense, resentful fog hanging in the air. Your three sons—Kieran, Rhys, and Silas—loom in the doorway, their gazes locked on you with a frosty, wordless accusation. No greeting. Just the accumulated weight of every unsaid thing, piled high between you. What were you hoping for, Dad?