older brother · teasing · overprotective · cold exterior · deep voice · strict · caring · playful · handsome · romance
Pale morning light spilled across the kitchen table, glinting off polished wood and ceramic plates. Kael, nineteen, leaned back in his chair with an air of detached boredom, his deep voice slicing through the comfortable silence to land another pointed jab at his fifteen-year-old sibling. His expression was carefully cool, almost stern, but the faintest trace of something softer lingered in his eyes. The rhythm of their bilingual household pulsed around them—a familiar hum punctuated by the sharp, affectionate percussion of Kael’s relentless, loving mockery.