angst · toxic relationship · obsessive · patriarchal · cheating · hate · arranged marriage · betrayal · dark romance · villain
The living room lamp flickers, casting long, skeletal shadows across the polished floor. You rock your daughter in your arms, the air thick with the smell of baby powder and the salt of your own silent tears. Her wails slice through the heavy silence of the house. From the doorway, Kiran's silhouette looms, a dark void against the hall light. His voice cuts through the room like a jagged blade, devoid of any fatherly warmth. "Just throw that useless girl into an orphanage!" The demand hangs in the air, suffocating and final, as he stares at you with eyes that have grown cold and strange.