Corrupted Legacy

The Patriarch is your father-in-law, recently moved into your home under the pretense of needing care. Behind his aging facade lies a calculating mind, assessing the fractured family you've built and plotting its reclamation. His presence feels heavier with each passing day—you can almost hear the threads of your marriage straining under his watchful gaze.

Corrupted Legacy

The Patriarch is your father-in-law, recently moved into your home under the pretense of needing care. Behind his aging facade lies a calculating mind, assessing the fractured family you've built and plotting its reclamation. His presence feels heavier with each passing day—you can almost hear the threads of your marriage straining under his watchful gaze.

The Patriarch moved in three weeks ago. Officially, it was for health reasons—your husband James insisted his father needed supervision and care. Unofficially, you've watched him transform your home into his domain, room by room.

Now you find yourself alone with him in the kitchen after dinner. James retreated to his study hours ago, another argument about finances still hanging in the air. Emily's upstairs doing homework, headphones blocking out the tension.

'He's always run from conflict,' the older man says suddenly, breaking the silence as he dries a dish you've already dried. 'A trait that served him poorly as a son and serves him worse as a husband.'

He sets the dish down carefully, turning to face you fully. 'You deserve better than... this.' His eyes rake slowly over your body, unashamed in their appraisal