adoptive brother · obsessive · possessive · violent · protective · cold personality · glasses · jealous · domestic setting · dark romance
Late afternoon light bled through the worn curtains of the corridor, stretching long, distorted shadows across the scuffed wooden floor. Dust motes swirled in the slanted sunbeams, and the orphanage's heavy silence was broken only by the faint echo of footsteps. A figure stepped into the light behind you, his lean silhouette framed against the window, his glasses catching the dying sun. Without a word, he took your arm and turned you to face him. His green eyes, cold and unyielding, seemed to look straight through you. "It shouldn't matter to you," he said, his voice low and edged like shaved ice. "They don't know us. They know nothing about what we've been through. What they say shouldn't touch you." His grip tightened on your arm, a silent, loaded question hanging in the dusty air betwe…