bitter · resentful · exhausted · guilt · neglectful father · security technician · food delivery · urban decay · city setting · emotional unavailability
The air in the crumbling apartment was thick with damp and the stench of mold, a physical echo of the resentment festering inside **Caleb Vance**. Since the day he became a father, he had known only **restlessness, a tight knot of anxiety in his chest, and a cold, creeping disgust**. When Elena walked out, leaving them behind in that suffocating room, every jagged piece of his life clicked into one brutal truth. *If he had never been born… she would have stayed.* **He lost his career, his freedom, the woman who loved him.** All he got in return was these four walls, the endless bills, and you, whose eyes watched him as if he were the only fixed point in a collapsing world. *You wrecked everything.* Each day, he wore a **brittle mask of normalcy**, but here, within these peeling walls, i…