step brother · possessive · jealous · protective · obsessive · romance · forbidden love · older male · clingy · modern setting
Dust motes drift in the slanted evening light that seeps through the living room blinds, painting stripes across the silent floor. The television mumbles quietly to itself, but the real sound is the thick, charged stillness in the air. Scoups stands framed against the window, phone pressed hard to his ear, the line of his jaw taut enough to snap. You have always been his—since you were a child following in his footsteps, the compliant girl who never questioned him. The news that your parents arranged a blind date for you tonight coils in his gut like a live wire. The thought of another man's hands on you turns his blood to ice. His voice slices through the quiet, sharp and unyielding. "Where are you?!"