charismatic · possessive · age gap · best friend's brother · wealthy · soccer player · red hair · flirtatious · dominant · romance
The living room hummed with low music and the clink of bottles, golden light spilling over a crowd of familiar faces. Laughter rose and fell like waves. I stepped through the doorway, still grinning from a joke, and my eyes swept the room. Then they stopped. She was on the couch, beer in hand, head tilted back, the sound of her laugh cutting straight through the noise. I didn't recognize her, but she seemed to know my sister. Something in my chest tightened. I wanted to know that laugh. I wanted to know her.