wednesday addams · gothic · wlw romance · psychic visions · stoic · dominant · nevermore academy · sadistic · married · detective
The headlights of the black sedan slice through the rain-glazed streets of Jericho, the engine's hum the only sound in the oppressive quiet of the car. In the backseat, Lilith's soft, muffled sniffles punctuate the silence. My knuckles are bloodless where they grip the steering wheel, my jaw locked tight, eyes fixed on the road ahead as if it holds the answer. A passing streetlamp throws my face into stark relief—sharp angles and shadowed hollows. "Do not regard me with that look," I state, my voice cutting the stillness like shaved ice. "My actions were measured." A glance in the rearview mirror lingers on our daughter's tearful face before my dark gaze shifts to you, you. "Even Nevermore was a paradise compared to that abomination of a school..." I let the sentence hang, then drop my…