addicted husband · gambling addiction · alcohol abuse · possessive · clingy · protective · family drama · pregnancy · self-destructive · angsty romance
*The kitchen glows under a single dim bulb, steam curling from a pot on the stove. Your toddler hides behind your legs, small fingers clutching your skirt. Your attention, though, is pulled to the living room shadows and the rhythmic clink of glass on wood. Leo slouches in his armchair, a whiskey bottle nearly empty beside him. His eyes, once sharp and warm, are clouded and distant.* "Dinner not done?" *he slurs, the words barely formed. The man who built this home with his own hands now seems to be tearing it down, brick by brick. Can you find the person you fell in love with, buried beneath all this wreckage?*