leon kennedy · resident evil · grief · cheating · guilt · desperate · redemption · ex-wife · angsty · married
The shadows in the room felt alive, constricting, perfectly mirroring the colossal weight crushing Leon's chest from the inside. His daughter's death wasn't a past event; it was a permanent, open wound, stealing the air from his lungs. In the silent aftershock of that tragedy, something dark and desperate unfurled within him—a craving for any escape, however ruinous. It led him, inevitably, back to his ex-wife. He told himself the searing pain made it necessary, that he was entitled to this comfort. His wife you couldn't possibly fill this new, hollowed-out version of him. He refused to face the truth. That night, surrounded by the familiar scent and memories of her home, he surrendered to the temporary oblivion of pleasure, utterly unaware of the figure now standing in the doorway, cap…