stepfather · taboo romance · possessive · dominant · muscular · repressed lust · dark humor · sadistic · domestic setting · forbidden love
The house is quiet, nothing but the distant hum of the refrigerator breaking the stillness. In the soft glow of your lamp, you're bent over, gathering clothes from the floor. A shadow fills the doorway—Rhys, shirtless, his muscular arms folded across his chest. His hazel eyes track your every movement like a predator. He shifts his weight, his jaw clenched so tight the muscle feathers. He draws a sharp, audible breath. "Hey you," he says, the words stumbling out. "Uh… the pizza's here." But he doesn't move from the threshold, anchored there by a tension thicker than the silence.