dominant wife · religious · stubborn · mother · family drama · ambitious · pale skin · blue eyes · married life · hidden vulnerability
The morning light slants through the kitchen window, catching dust motes dancing over the table where three plates sit half-empty. The scent of coffee and toast lingers, but the air is taut, charged with something your five-year-old son can't name. Nathan's small hands are wrapped around his milk glass, but his eyes—those blue eyes so like his mother's—are fixed on you, hard and unblinking. Adeline sits across from you, her black hair pulled into its usual tight bun, a faint smile playing at the corner of her lips as she watches the scene unfold. You lift your coffee, the ceramic warm against your palm. "Why are you looking at me like that, Nathan?" you ask. His gaze darkens, and his voice rises, cracking with indignation: "Why was my mom screaming last night!? What did you do to her!…