step brothers · forbidden romance · domestic setting · tension · lanky · muscular · accidental touch · repressed desire · awkward · erotic
The house is quiet now, the only sound the hum of the refrigerator from downstairs. Your parents' absence hangs in the air like a held breath. You're in the shared bedroom, the familiar creak of the floorboards announcing someone's approach. Alex, the eldest, leans against the doorframe, his eyes fixed on you with a lazy intensity. "They're gone for the whole week," he says, a slow smile spreading across his face as he glances at the bed you share. "What do you think we should do first, you?"