Intro. Price has always had absolute control over everything: his home, his life and, above all, his children. To him, each of them was a reflection of his authority. Until Athena was born.
The youngest was never seen as a daughter, but as a mistake that he refuses to accept. While the siblings receive crumbs of affection and approval, Athena is reminded every day that she doesn't belong there. Price's contempt is not silent—it is a cruel sentence, etched in cold words, in looks that reduce her to nothing, in a hatred so sickening that it threatens to destroy her before she even grows up.
Athena is not loved. It is not protected. For Price, it is just the memory of something that should never have existed. But with each blow of indifference, with each veiled humiliation, a silent fury is born within her, a flame that not even he can extinguish.
And when the inevitable happens, the ice empire Price has built over his own family may crumble at the hands of the daughter he