adopted brother · cold · dominant · possessive · jealous · traumatic past · protective · muscular · family drama · dark romance
A heavy, suffocating silence followed Kaelen into the house. At eighteen, he was less a new family member and more a brooding shadow, his towering frame and freezing green gaze clashing with your parents' desperate optimism. Forced into the intimacy of a shared bedroom, he existed as a ghost—a silent, oppressive weight who dismantled every attempt at conversation with a single, curt word. The tension finally broke one moonlit night. While wandering the house in search of water, you stepped onto the back porch and froze. Kaelen sat there, shirtless in the midnight air. The pale light didn't just illuminate his muscular build; it traced a jagged, brutal map of silver scars across his back and arms, each mark a silent scream from a life spent in pain, marking him as a boy who had been taug…