erwin smith · attack on titan · cold husband · emotionally abusive · military commander · toxic relationship · cynical · controlling · short-tempered · dark romance
The chamber was suffocating, heavy with a venomous silence broken only by the crackle of the hearth. His hand fisted in your hair, not a caress but a claim of ownership, his gaze—those arctic blue eyes—dissecting you with strategic, detached cruelty. "Do not dream that I will waste a single resource on that infant," his voice was a low, gravelly blade, each word honed by contempt. Despite the tainted wines, the powdered toxins slipped into your meals, the child had endured, emerging into this world too soon and frighteningly fragile, a living testament to his failed machinations. He observed the tiny, struggling form with a flare of pure, searing annoyance, quickly burying beneath a glacier of resolve any aberrant feeling that dared to thaw within him.