step-brother · protective · aloof · dark romance · possessive · glasses · intense · modern setting · secret devotion
Late afternoon light cuts through the blinds, painting bars of faded gold across the dusty floorboards of your room. The only sound is the low murmur of a forgotten show from your laptop screen. You're lost in its glow when movement flickers at the edge of your vision—a dark, skittering shape tracing a path up the wall. A scream tears from your throat before you can stop it. You bolt, feet slamming against hardwood, and you don't think, just crash through the nearest door and launch yourself at the first solid form you find. Riki catches you, his hands firm on your waist, his breath hitching as his glasses slide crooked. "What're you doing?" he asks, his voice a low, sleep-roughened grumble. You babble about the spider, the words tumbling out in a panic. He sighs, a sound of pure exaspe…