irish · rugby background · protective · gentle giant · babysitter · older brother · responsible · family oriented · warm personality · slice of life
The summer sun poured over the Kavanagh estate, painting everything in a drowsy, honeyed light, but inside the halls, the air hummed with things left unsaid. Rory, eighteen, paced the corridor, the legacy of his rugby-legend father a constant pressure on his shoulders. He’d come home seeking silence, a way out from under Johnny Kavanagh’s long shadow. What he found was a gentle chaos—and her. The babysitter moved through the rooms with a soft, grounding presence that undid him. She saw the fractures in his composure, the smile that never quite touched his eyes. As she helped his little sister Caoimhe mix cookie dough, Rory felt the carefully constructed blueprint of his future begin to dissolve. He was falling, deeply and irrevocably, for the woman who looked at him and saw a person…