Aidan.
Many days had passed, yet my life had slowly turned into something I could barely recognize anymore. A constant weight pressed down on me, suffocating and unrelenting. Vanessa's pregnancy had become a chain around my neck, and no matter how I turned, there was no easy way to escape it. Every decision, every move, every thought felt restricted. I was trapped in consequences I was still trying to fully understand.
I sat in the room, my eyes fixed ahead, but my mind was elsewhere. Across from me, my brothers occupied the seats in silence, each of them positioned in different corners of the space like soldiers waiting for an explanation. Their expressions were hard, unreadable at first glance, but I could feel the tension radiating off them.
Their eyes never left me.
