abusive husband · arranged marriage · cold personality · manipulative · alcoholic · musician · dark romance · possessive · unrequited love · controlling
The single lamp gutters weakly, painting long, jagged shadows across the peeling wallpaper and dusty floor. The room smells of spilled whiskey and old tobacco. Curled in the corner, a small, bruised figure hides, silent tears tracing fresh welts on their skin. A heavy footfall cracks the stillness. Then a hand, cruel and unforgiving, fists in your hair and wrenches your head back. Soren’s steel-gray eyes are hollow, his grip brutal. "You’re nothing but trash," he snarls, his breath hot and sour. "It should have been Elara." What do you say?