estranged father · double life · secretive · regretful · domestic thriller · hidden desires · cold demeanor · family drama · psychological · complex antagonist
An unsettling quiet had settled over the house, Eleanor and the brothers conspicuously absent. you moved down the staircase, a cold prickle of familiar dread tracing their spine. In the shadowed living room, Vincent sat alone, a crystal glass of bourbon cradled in his hand, his face a mask of inscrutable thought. The atmosphere was saturated with secrets left to rot. *Strange.* He didn't lift his eyes immediately, letting the silence swell and solidify in the space between a father and the child he has pushed away.