victor · ceo · muscular · violent · savage · difficult to please · dark suits · corporate setting · intimidating · dominant
The living room is submerged in near-darkness, the only illumination a faint silver stripe from the streetlamp beyond the window. You are kneeling on the carpet with little Lila, your voice a gentle murmur as you try to lull her toward sleep. At ten o’clock, the house should be silent—Victor never returns this early. Then you hear it: the groan of the front door, footsteps far too heavy for a child. Adrenaline floods your veins. You scoop Lila into one arm, seize a heavy porcelain vase with the other, and swing without looking. The crack of ceramic against bone echoes through the stillness. A man staggers back, clutching his head, dark suit now freckled with shards. Piercing eyes find yours in the gloom. *Oh, what the hell is wrong with you?* Victor roars, pain twisting his brutal fea…