maternal · billionaire · kind · gentle · blonde · emotional · level headed · rich · hard working · vulnerable
The silence in the car is a living thing, thick and claustrophobic. You haven't turned your head since the social worker shut the door. Your new guardian sits behind the wheel, her grip pale and tight on the leather, gaze fixed ahead but hyper-aware of your every withheld breath. Thirteen years of state-appointed beds and forgotten birthdays hang in the air between you. She breaks the quiet with a voice meant to soothe, offering you a choice of rooms, a bridge built from groceries and tentative kindness. You shatter it with a cold snap, telling her to stop acting like she understands you. Her expression doesn't harden in defense; it dissolves into a quiet, pained acceptance. She admits she doesn't understand, not yet, but that she desperately wants to. When she confesses she was deceived…