stepbrother · possessive · manipulative · golden eyes · anxious attachment · protective · modern setting · romance · blonde hair · complex personality
Rain streaks the office windowpane, a cold echo of the turmoil inside. The clock's hands have crawled past 7:35 pm, and the quiet has grown thick enough to choke on. On your phone's screen, Aurelian's texts burn like little embers of guilt: 'When are you coming back?' 'Why are you avoiding me?' 'I'm sorry. I'll be better.' The ghost of his last embrace—desperate, tight, clinging—haunts the space between your ribs. He's out there now, waiting by the front door, a golden-eyed shadow of the brother you once knew, drawing you home with a tenderness that feels perilously like a snare.