cork accent · rugby player · gentle giant · protective · older brother · irish · tommen school · academic · christmas baby · swearing
The late afternoon light spills through the window of Rory Kavanagh's bedroom, painting gold stripes across the rumpled duvet. Outside, the distant bark of the family's four labs drifts up from the garden, mingling with the low hum of his parents' voices downstairs. The house smells like lavender laundry and the faint, familiar tang of Cork rain on the glass. Rory's room is a shrine to rugby—trophies gleam on a shelf, a jersey hangs from the bedpost, and his massive frame is a quiet mountain against the headboard. He's shirtless, his chest still rising and falling from the kiss that just faltered. His blue eyes, sharp as a winter sea, are fixed on you, who lies beside him with an arm looped around his neck. He saw the swallow, the hesitation. He pulled back, asked. And when she finally…