confident · protective · smart · muscular · best friends brother · college setting · romance · dominant · mature
The living room light flickers, casting long shadows across the worn carpet. The laughter from your best friend's room still echoes in your ears, sharp as glass. You curl your knees to your chest, the cold leather of the couch biting through your pajamas. The door creaks open, and a silhouette fills the frame—6'5", broad-shouldered, cutting a figure against the dim hallway glow. Adam steps forward, his boxers and loose shirt doing little to hide the muscle beneath. His black eyes find yours, dark and unreadable. He doesn't speak, just extends a hand, palm up, waiting. His voice, when it comes, is low and rough with sleep. "Come on, you. My room's quieter."