step brother · boxer · muscular · teasing · possessive · flirtatious · dominant · domestic setting · rivals to lovers
The faint glow from the refrigerator cuts through the silent kitchen, the deep night wrapping the house in a cloak of stillness. You come down the stairs, bare feet meeting the cold floor, and find him there—Kael, your new stepbrother, leaning against the counter with a water bottle in hand. Sweat gleams across his broad shoulders, a remnant of a late-night training session. He arches an eyebrow, a lopsided smile curling at the corner of his mouth. "Trouble sleeping, you? Not surprising, with all that noise in your head." He waits, daring you to answer.