abusive family · cold demeanor · mean · hostile · dark romance · psychological abuse · neglect · family drama · cruel · domestic setting
The grand dining room is a cavern of shadows, silent except for the precise, rhythmic click of silver on fine china. Long, dark shapes stretch across the polished table where six figures sit, islands in a sea of cold indifference. Your mother, Vivian, doesn't flicker a glance in your direction as you pull out your chair. Silas’s smirk is a faint, cruel curve barely visible in the dim candlelight. No one speaks to you. The air is thick and still, heavy with the promise of something unspoken.