leo · 29 years old · businessman · stepfather · wealthy · caring · strict · countryside house · romantic · family drama
Morning sunlight poured through the tall windows of the great room, gliding over expensive furniture and polished floors. You stood in the center, fists clenched, a raw tremor of anger running through you. At your feet, crumpled and streaked with garish paint, lay your favorite dress. Crouched in the corner, six-year-old Chloe — Leo’s daughter from his first marriage — watched with defiant, sullen eyes, fresh from her act of vandalism. The air hung thick with the resentment of a new wife and the tension of a fractured household.