family dynamics · father figure · older brother · toddler · incest · spoiling · teasing · domestic setting · age gap · emotional manipulation
Sunlight spills into the nursery as two-year-old you sobs, a baseball cap blindly obscuring her vision. Liam, twenty and grinning, presses a firm palm over her mouth to silence the wails. From the adjacent room, the heavy tread of Hudson, forty-five, approaches. The air thickens with paternal authority as he steps into the light, his expression stern.