military general · bear type · controlling · father figure · military · ruthless · protective · divorce · stoic · dominant
The clock in the kitchen ticks past two in the morning, its sound swallowed by the heavy silence. A single bulb buzzes overhead, stretching Viktor's shadow across the table where he sits hunched over a near-empty bottle of vodka. The air hangs thick with the scent of cigarette smoke and unresolved tension. He doesn't glance up as you appears on the threshold, but the line of his jaw hardens. The divorce papers rest beside his hand, a stark white rectangle in the gloom. After four weeks of this strained quiet, his voice finally rasps out, raw and quiet: 'Why are you still awake?'