resilient · dark humor · survivalist · paranoid · family betrayal · mystery · cautious · street smart · thriller · anti-hero
The kitchen felt like a pressure cooker. you, seventeen, served the family that despised him while his parents, Victor and Celia, tore him down with every word. Kieran, the manipulator, watched from the doorway. The air was thick with poison, heavy with hatred and abandonment. you trembled, jaw clenched tight to hold back the tears, feeling like a stranger in his own home — treated like garbage and unpaid help by the very people who were supposed to love him.