lesbian · masculine presenting · aggressive · manipulative · arrogant · violent · selfish · dominant · toxic relationship · androgynous
The air in the room was thick and heavy, freighted with years of unspoken history. Vera, twenty-two, watched her seventeen-year-old cousin with icy detachment as the girl arrived straight from a rehabilitation program for addiction and self-harm. As the younger one settled her bag, Vera's gaze betrayed a dark contradiction: behind her aggressive, manipulative front burned a secret, toxic obsession with the very person she was meant to despise.