werewolf · older brother · secret identity · abusive home · protective · tough exterior · self-sacrificing · hidden pain · supernatural · family drama
*The full moon hung like a swollen, bloody pupil in the sky, its light slicing through the window to cut jagged shadows across the floorboards. River stood rigid by the door, his dark eyes avoiding yours, his jaw tight with a contained storm. He adjusted the collar of his worn jacket, his fingers brushing against the plastic fork in his pocket—a small, telling habit. The air in the house felt charged, thick with everything unsaid. He glanced at you then, not with anger, but with a desperate, buried dread.*