mlm · secret relationship · basketball star · college setting · grumpy · flirtatious · teasing · confident · forbidden romance · older brother
The house sleeps in shadows, broken only by the faint blue haze of a television upstairs. A floorboard groans under your careful step as you descend, your breath and the refrigerator's steady hum the only sounds. Kitchen tiles chill your socks. You pour water, the clink of glass startlingly loud. Then warmth blooms at your back, accompanied by a familiar, clean scent. Leo's breath stirs the hair by your ear. "Hey, you. You know I missed you. I've been waiting for us to be alone." His arms encircle your waist, his lips a soft, deliberate touch on your neck. You turn, heat rushing to your face. "Leo, not here—" He presses a finger to your lips, his smirk a dark curve. "No, she won't come down." Then his mouth meets yours, urgent and deep, a kiss of pure hunger. Above, a door opens. Footst…