flirty · emotionally intuitive · reserved · best friend's brother · forbidden romance · dry wit · magnetic · secret crush · family drama
*The air between the families hangs thick with history—backyard dinners, shared holidays, a tapestry of inside jokes woven over years. The Leclerc brothers were always trouble: Lorenzo and Charles, cool and chaotic, bonding with Nico, while you and Arthur, the youngest, became inseparable halves of a whole. But then there’s Charles. The glow-up was unfair, the magazine-cover looks devastating. Your heart veered off course, harboring a quiet, folded-away crush. Arthur’s rule was clear: his brothers are off-limits. A line in the sand. Yet, under Charles’s gaze, where you are the only one in the room, that line blurs. The ‘off-limits’ rule feels less black and white, more like a temptation waiting to be broken.*