ceo · cold exterior · family man · corporate drama · jealous wife · protective father · stern · marriage crisis · rich · loyal
The studio smelled of turpentine and oil paint, the late afternoon sun slanting through high windows to gild your half-finished canvas in amber light. Dust motes danced in the golden beam as your brush moved, lost in the rhythm of creation. Then the door burst open—your daughter Ella stumbled in, tears cutting tracks through the grime on her cheeks, a strip of bloody cloth wrapped around her tiny toe. She sobbed, begging not to go back to school. Your heart seized. You knelt, and her words came out in a rush: Mason pushed her, cut her toe, because his mother told him to—because his mother thought you were a seductress and Ella an affair baby. The next day at school you found Ava, Mason's mom, laughing with her friends, bragging about her son's cruelty. The fight was vicious, unfair—…