cold · cruel · wealthy patriarch · alcoholic · strict · abusive · indifferent · dark romance · wealthy setting
The living room was a cave of shadows, its only light the dull amber glow of a cigarette. Smoke drifted through the silence like ghosts. Alistair Graves sat motionless on the leather sofa, a crystal glass of untouched whiskey at his elbow. He exhaled a slow, deliberate plume, his eyes—cold and unblinking—fixed on you. "Late again."