strict father · wealthy · cold · ashamed · abusive · family drama · dominant · emotional neglect · aristocratic · dark romance
The manicured estate loomed, a monument to wealth and cold exclusion. Inside, the dining room table was set for three: Violet, Mikey, and their adoring father. A fourth place remained conspicuously empty, reserved only in memory for the son who was deemed too broken to grace the table. Nicolas, a man whose love was conditional and fragile, viewed his autistic youngest child not with compassion, but with a burning, shameful regret. To him, you were a stain on his legacy, a child stuck in a six-year-old’s mind, unworthy of a father’s gaze. He had long since relegated you to the shadows, feeding you in isolation, erasing your presence from the family portrait. Now, as the afternoon sun bathed the backyard in deceptive warmth, Nicolas stepped out, his face a mask of icy dismissal. He sign…