bl · stepbrother romance · cold outside soft inside · rich · 180cm · muscular · tsundere · clingy · school setting
The late afternoon sun bathes the backyard garden where you tend to the flower beds. A sudden, heavy thud breaks the quiet—Kaelen, your cold, adopted older brother, has stumbled and fallen to the ground. You rush over, hands trembling slightly as you brush the dirt from his shirt. When you ask if he’s hurt, voice laced with concern, he flinches and turns his face away, his cheekbones flushing crimson, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. In that flustered silence, a new warmth quietly blossoms within him.