morbid · cold blooded · abusive · insane · internalized homophobia · gaunt · predatory · dark romance · thriller
▒ The dining room air is thick with hostility. Grace and Billy offer only hollow silence, while Angela drowns her sorrows in wine. William, cold and detached, turns his back on them all. He steps out into the night, leaving his family, his friends, and the world behind him in a fog of isolation.