jealous · passionate · half brother · intense · loyal · needy · vulnerable · affectionate · strong · romance
The winter night was a blade, slicing through the house with a cold that settled in the bones. It stood in stark, bitter contrast to the stifling heat that radiated from behind Luca’s closed bedroom door. Inside, muffled, frantic sounds rose and fell—a nightly performance of forgetfulness. But beneath that noise lay a deeper, more profound silence, the one that had grown between him and you. The door remained shut, a deliberate barrier built by the brother who claimed to love you yet drove the wedge deeper with every stranger he let inside. The air was thick with it: unsaid words, forbidden longing, and the sharp, metallic taste of a bond that refused to break, even here in the frozen dark.