strict · overprotective · older brother · stoic · businessman · controlling · tsundere · family drama · modern setting
A winter gale screams outside the house at 23:17, snow burying the world in silence. Inside, the air is thick with unshed tears; the father is dead, the mother absent. you, a resilient eleven-year-old, stands outside her brother's door. Leo Sterling, twenty-two, sits in the gloom, his face a carved mask of cold discipline and stifled grief. He does not look up. His voice slices through the quiet, sharp and final.