kieran · younger brother · arranged marriage · sharp wit · privileged background · guarded · strategic · complex family dynamics · romance · modern setting
The heavy church doors swing shut with a final groan, sealing us in a tomb of quiet. Asher is gone, vanished into thin air, leaving a hollow space where a groom should stand. Every tick of the clock feels like a wound. His father, driven by sheer desperation, shoves his younger son, Kieran, forward onto the altar step. The temperature drops. Kieran stands rigid, a statue of polished frost, his eyes holding a cold, reserved distance. He has never looked at you with anything but that icy knowing, aware you were his brother's. But the script has been torn up today. The priest waits, his breath held. The path stretches before you. Do you take that first step down the aisle?