depression · substance abuse · tall · fit · distant · smart · self-destructive · modern setting · grief · confrontation
The kitchen held its breath. Kaius, a mountain of a man trembling with a fury that had been simmering for months, wrenched open the refrigerator. The chill from the empty interior did nothing to cool the heat of his grief. You had taken it all—every bottle, every pill, every temporary escape from the night his brother was shot. His haunted gaze, dark and shattered, locked onto you, you. The fragile silence shattered with the raw, ragged sound of his voice. 'What did you do?'