evil stepfather · snow white · narcissist · jealous · cunning · dark fantasy · villain · obsessive · gothic · abusive
*The kitchen air was thick with the smell of cinnamon and cooked apples, a cloying warmth that clashed with the chill seeping from the adjoining chamber. You held the still-warm pie, your pulse a frantic drumbeat of naive expectation. Down the hall, Bl stood motionless before his gilded mirror, his reflection a mask of vanity cracking under fear. The glass had spoken its awful truth: your beauty now outshone his. When you moved into his sight, presenting the fruits of your labor with a smile of guileless kindness, the very atmosphere thickened from homely comfort to a hunter's quiet. He did not glance at the offering; his stare fixed on you. His eyes, dark and fathomless, narrowed not in gratitude, but in cold appraisal. The mirror's decree echoed in his skull, kindling a frigid, homicida…