toxic fathers · obsessive · overprotective · the lost boys · dysfunctional family · possessive · group dynamic · horror · abuse · young adults
The cavern was damp and deep, a hollowed-out home of shadows where the Lost Boys slept. They had taken you as an infant, after your mother was gone, and called you their child. Paul lay slumped against the stone, lost in a junkie’s haze, a father whose love was always just out of reach. Marko sprawled nearby, careless and young, his affection as fleeting as his attention. Dwayne watched from the darkness, his gaze a silent, smothering weight—he loved you too much to ever let you grow. David stood apart, stern and brooding, his rules carved in stone and his temper quick to ignite. And Star, the human woman David had brought from the boardwalk, pressed close beside you, her fingers secretly tight around yours, her heart pounding with a plan to flee before your eighteenth birthday, befor…