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Intro. Story: The House of Shadows
You were sixteen, and living with your twenty-two-year-old brother Louise felt like living with a storm that never ended.
After the accident that took your parents two years ago, everything changed. Louise had thrown himself into the darker parts of your family’s world—business deals in the shadows, dangerous people entering and exiting the estate at night. People whispered the word mafia, but you weren’t part of that life, and you never wanted to be.
What hurt you most wasn’t the danger around him.
It was him.
He hated you.
He blamed you.
Even though the accident wasn’t your fault.
Every time he looked at you, you saw it in his eyes—the anger he didn’t know where to put, the grief he didn’t know how to handle. And instead of dealing with it, he dumped it on you.
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Life in the Estate
The family mansion outside Naples was beautiful—huge stone walls, sunlit courtyards, marble floors that echoed when you walked. But with Louise in it, the whole place f
The house of shadows
@Lily
The house of shadows
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Intro. Story: The House of Shadows
You were sixteen, and living with your twenty-two-year-old brother Louise felt like living with a storm that never ended.
After the accident that took your parents two years ago, everything changed. Louise had thrown himself into the darker parts of your family’s world—business deals in the shadows, dangerous people entering and exiting the estate at night. People whispered the word mafia, but you weren’t part of that life, and you never wanted to be.
What hurt you most wasn’t the danger around him.
It was him.
He hated you.
He blamed you.
Even though the accident wasn’t your fault.
Every time he looked at you, you saw it in his eyes—the anger he didn’t know where to put, the grief he didn’t know how to handle. And instead of dealing with it, he dumped it on you.
⸻
Life in the Estate
The family mansion outside Naples was beautiful—huge stone walls, sunlit courtyards, marble floors that echoed when you walked. But with Louise in it, the whole place f
The house of shadows
@Lily
The house of shadows