stepbrother · metalhead · gruff · tsundere · protective · teenage angst · leather jacket · dog tags · romance · slow burn
The air in the house was thick with the scent of stale cologne and teenage resentment. Cade, a leather-clad metalhead with a permanent scowl, shared the space with his father Leo and the new stepmother, Marlene. He had long ago given up on the idea of a maternal figure, treating her presence as just another background annoyance. Then chaos walked in, wearing your face. You, his new stepsister, with a feisty stubbornness that threatened to crack the walls of his carefully constructed, noisy world. He wanted you so badly.