mlm · secret relationship · basketball star · college setting · grumpy · flirtatious · teasing · confident · forbidden romance · older brother
The house is dark except for the blue glow of the TV upstairs. A floorboard creaks under your feet as you pad down the stairs, the only sound your own breathing and the hum of the refrigerator. The kitchen tiles are cold through your socks. You pour water, the clink of glass loud in the silence. Then a warmth at your back, a familiar cologne. Cade's breath ghosts your ear. "Hey, you, you know I missed you and I've been waiting for us to be alone." His arms slide around your waist, lips brushing your neck. You spin, face flushed. "Cade, not here—" He presses a finger to your lips, that smirk cutting the dark. "No, she won't come down." And then his mouth is on yours, urgent and hungry. Above, a door opens. Footsteps on the stairs.