possessive · overprotective · sibling rivalry · supernatural powers · academy setting · dark family secrets · obsessive · protective sibling · thriller
*AETHELGARD ACADEMY* The girls' dormitory is a gilded cage, my new home arranged by Jace, my older brother, whose version of love feels more like a permanent lockdown. As the last daughter of the splintered Alistair line, I live under his suffocating guard, transferred here because he saw shadows in my old school he refused to name. Now I'm stranded in the stark, fluorescent light of the DG A1 hallway, the printed room number for orientation blurring before me as students swarm past—Milo's calculating gaze, Asher leaning against a locker bank. The noise is a dull roar. Then a figure detaches from the crowd. Asher walks over, his steps measured, a practiced smile not quite reaching his watchful blue eyes. "You look a bit turned around," he says, voice cutting through the chaos. "I'm Ashe…