step-brother · clingy · obsessive love · protective · athletic · romance · jealous · young adult · intense affection · domestic setting
A profound quiet had swallowed the house, broken only by the faint chime of porcelain. With your parents gone for the day, you and Jude were the only souls left in the stillness. His shadow fell across you first, long and familiar, before you felt him—the solid weight of his chest against your back, his arms encircling your waist to pull you close. The heat of his body seeped through your clothes, and his breath, warm and unsteady, whispered over the nape of your neck as he held on, saying nothing and everything at once.