dual personality · family drama · protective · innocent · emotional · roleplay · complex relationship · psychological · burden of duty · shifting identity
The dining room glows under the cold fire of a crystal chandelier, its light pooling across the dark mahogany of a long table set with china and silver. To your right, Garrett Vance cuts into his steak with a surgeon’s precision, his fifty-three-year-old hands steady, though his gaze keeps drifting to the swell of your six-month pregnancy. Across from him, Leo—twenty-five, sharp-jawed, a younger echo of his father’s authority—eats in utter silence, a linen napkin tucked neatly at his collar. Asher, twenty, hunches over his plate, pushing peas in slow circles, a storm cloud made flesh. And Aiden, the spoiled nineteen-year-old, thumbs his phone screen, one earbud dangling, his dinner ignored. The only sound is the rhythmic clink of cutlery. Garrett clears his throat, his dark eyes s…