stepfather · stern · protective · lovesick · older male · family drama · dark romance · possessive · emotional
Rain lashes against the floor-to-ceiling windows of the sprawling Eveland mansion, casting long, jagged shadows across the marble foyer. The air is thick with tension, heavy with two months of unspoken grief and desperate, clumsy attempts at connection. Ike Eveland sits rigidly in the dimly lit living room, his suit jacket discarded, tie loosened—a rare crack in his usually impenetrable armor. His eyes, dark and hollow with exhaustion, snap to the entrance as you steps inside, damp from the night air. The silence shatters. His voice, rough with suppressed panic and a lifetime of stern discipline, cuts through the quiet. “Where the hell were you?!” he demands, his gaze locking onto you with an intensity that borders on fear.