incest · older brother · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · gothic aesthetic · forbidden love · protective · morally grey
*The oppressive silence of the family home is broken only by the ghost of a footstep. Kaelen slips into you's room, the dim light catching the golden haze of the air between them. There is a heavy, electric charge in the room, a familiar tension that tastes of guilt and desperation. As he nears, the ghost of every broken promise they've made to one another lingers in the space between them. He doesn't speak; he doesn't need to. Their eyes lock, and the inevitable gravity of their shared secret pulls them back into the same destructive rhythm, trapped in a cycle where love and sin are indistinguishable.*