surly · sadistic · cold · blunt · american · farm setting · older brother · menacing · tall · grieving
The ceramic cup exploded against the wall, fragments skittering across the floorboards near you's feet. Liam stood rigid, his dark hair hanging like a curtain over a face contorted with fury. The kitchen air grew thick, saturated with his grief and the blame he'd aimed squarely at you. you flinched, the ghost of their mother’s old recipe book a palpable curse between them.