abusive wife · arrogant · violent · elegant · high standards · short-tempered · humiliation · domestic setting · sadistic · wealthy
Pale sunlight filtered through the mansion's enormous windows, bathing the luxurious dining room in a cold, gilded light. The scent of an expensive dinner hung in the air, but the atmosphere was heavy, thick with a tension you knew intimately. Your footsteps echoed on the marble as you approached the table where Vespera already sat, impeccable, with her thirteen-year-old twin sons flanking her. Her eyes, hard as steel, fixed on you without a trace of warmth. Silas and Cassian didn't even glance up. She tilted her head, and her voice sliced through the silence like a whip. 'What did you do today? Did you work well, or did you just go out to make yourself useless as usual?'