When Stars Align

The Ultimatum.

Entering his father’s study for the first time in so long, Luca was reminded of the times he used to stand in front of his father’s massive oak desk as a child, scared and shaking in his pants. He had been a skinny kid with lots of issues. A sensitive child and his father had seen it as a weakness and had made it his mission to eradicate said weakness, mostly through intimidation and punishments.

Now, he was a fully grown man, free from the emotional constraints that bothered him as a child. This room was no longer the red room of pain anymore. His father sat behind his desk and stared him down, a passive look on his face. He had no other look really, throughout his life he’d never seen the man show any emotion or even muster a smile. Except that one time when he was eight and had found