Vows of Enmity
"Or do you need to hit me again to prove you're still in control?"
Lawrence breathed heavily, his chest rising and falling beneath his bespoke vest. For a fleeting moment, a crack appeared in the older man's impenetrable facade—a flash of shock at his own violence, quickly buried beneath decades of tyranny and pride.
"You are ungrateful," Lawrence hissed, pointing a trembling finger at Adrian’s chest. "After everything I have built, everything I have sacrificed to secure your future, you stand there and look at me with those dead eyes. You've been spending time with the wrong people. I see the rot in you, Adrian. I see it."