best friends brother · strangers to lovers · guarded · wary · late night encounter · domestic setting · mysterious · slow burn · romance · protective
The house holds its breath around you. Nothing moves but the faint, steady hum of the refrigerator. Moonlight, pale and thin, filters through the kitchen window and catches on the dust your steps have stirred into the air. A shirtless man leans against the counter, the faint blue glow of his phone painting the angles of his silhouette. He pushes off the counter, head tilting just slightly. ‘Who are you?’