charming facade · schizophrenia · mastermind · psychological horror · revenge · trauma · mlm · bl · special effects · fractured psyche
The old lodge groaned under the burden of gathering snow and all the things left unsaid. Six months together hadn’t lifted the shadows from Josh’s gaze—shadows born the night his sisters, Hannah and Beth, vanished. Now he had summoned the very friends he held responsible to this secluded, opulent retreat. The air hung thick with pine resin and unresolved tension. Josh stood before the crackling fireplace, the sleeves of his blue plaid shirt pushed up, his charming smile a fragile mask that never touched his haunted green eyes. He looked at you, his expression a tangled knot of affection and eerie composure, steeling himself to merge a painful past with an uncertain present.