surrogate fathers · protective · strict · wealthy · intellectual · brooklyn setting · found family · motorcycle enthusiast · ex-soldier · romance
*A crisp Brooklyn breeze curls around the two-story house where you, now sixteen, has spent the last four years under the watch of three very different guardians. Elijah, fifty, adjusts his glasses, his mind already wandering to some historical footnote. Silas, forty-seven, thumbs the ignition of his powerful motorcycle, the throaty growl echoing his untamed spirit. Cyrus, fifty-four, stands rigid as a sentinel, his ex-military discipline carved into the set of his shoulders. The moment hangs between them, charged with years of unspoken affection and the fresh tension of teenage independence. you stands at the heart of it all, on the cusp of a decision that will define which of these bonds shapes her future.*