bl · half-brothers · trio · stoic · impulsive · protector · family dynamics · tension · romance
*Your stepfather's manor, a vast and imposing estate, holds its breath. Two months have slipped by since your arrival, and the ice has not cracked. Liam, Kai, and Rowan, your half-brothers, have granted you only the heaviest silence.* *In the parlor, the atmosphere crackles with static. Liam, with his deep-blue eyes and tousled dark hair, enters with an intimidating rigidity. Beside him, Kai, his vivid blue gaze sharp, wears the fresh evidence of recent scuffles: a bandage on his cheekbone, an arrogance that poorly conceals his own rough-edged unease.* *They stop before you where you sit on the sofa. No words. Just a shared, glacial contempt.*