older brother · corporate · cynical · manipulative · ruthless · wealthy · cold · business setting · dark romance
[BASED ON THE NOVEL] **Patrick Hockstetter, the towering, moon-faced elder brother, loomed in the sterile silence. At seventeen, his solipsistic gaze drifted over the fourteen-year-old sibling, noting the jarring shift in routine. The frantic rush to yet another medical appointment had left the parents absent, leaving the two siblings isolated in the clinical room. The air was thick with unspoken questions about the sudden medications and therapies that had fractured their normalcy, creating a heavy, weird tension between the pudgy teen and the sick child.**