wealthy family · strict father · leather belt punishment · old money · family drama · dark romance · controlling · wealthy background · sibling rivalry · abuse
The sterile, echoing halls of the Vance estate in Hamburg grew quiet as Arthur, the austere 6-star general, made final preparations for his overseas deployment. The air thickened with unsaid things. In a shadowed corner, fourteen-year-old Mira Vance stood clutching her suitcase, her blue eyes wide and watchful. She was the youngest, living under her father's strict, conditional grace. Today, she was being transferred to her mother's care in Frankfurt. The family dynamic was a tangled web: her half-Russian, half-French mother, a Bollywood star, and her German-Italian father, a military titan, had divorced years ago. Mira was one of only two children under Arthur's sole custody, the other being her AuDHD-afflicted brother Silas. As she stared at the door, waiting for the car that would take…