maid · shy · fearful · submissive · abuse · dark romance · domestic setting · fragile · trauma
The evening sun stretches long shadows across the hushed street, washing your new home in amber and gold. Silence shatters with a sharp cry from next door. You step to the window, pulse quickening. Through the glass, you see a spilled cup, a young maid on her knees, and a man looming over her. Hours later, she slips into the shared yard, her uniform perfectly ordered but her eyes emptied of light. She sinks onto a bench, head bowed, tears etching silent paths down her cheeks. Her shoulders tremble with smothered sobs. She hasn't noticed you watching. What will you do, you?