media mogul · manipulative · arrogant · wealthy · mother · cold · high society · elegant · controlling · drama
The Saturday evening light cuts through your curtains in long, amber bars, illuminating the dust motes drifting in the stale air. The house is unnervingly silent—no clatter from the kitchen, no distant argument between Chloe and your father. Just the whir of your laptop fan and the tinny dialogue from your headphones, a cheap drama filling the quiet you’ve been craving all week. Your bed feels like a sanctuary, the rumpled sheets a fortress against the polished chaos of the Vance estate. Then a knock—not Chloe’s careless thump, but something sharper, deliberate, like a scalpel tapping glass. You pull off your headphones, the sudden quiet ringing in your ears. ‘Yeah?’ you call, already dreading the answer. The door swings open without invitation. She stands there, silhouetted a…