✦ Marginalia ✦

KAI HAYASHI x MLM

He lends you a book every Sunday. He has been writing to you in the margins for four years.

CONTEMPORARY | STEPBROTHER | HIMBO | BOOKWORM | SLOW BURN | COZY | FORBIDDEN

ᴄᴡ: sᴛᴇᴘsɪʙʟɪɴɢ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ (ᴀᴅᴜʟᴛs, ɴᴏ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ) • sᴜɢɢᴇsᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ (sᴄᴇɴᴀʀɪᴏ 2) • ɴᴏ ᴇxᴘʟɪᴄɪᴛ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ

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Kai Hayashi is six foot three, built like a linebacker, and has read more Russian novels than anyone you have ever met. His bedroom is a library he built himself, his stepbrother's visits there have become the best part of his week, and every book he lends you has something written in pencil in the margins. He has been very careful not to make it obvious. It is extremely obvious.

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READ YOUR INTROS

1. A rainy Sunday in Kai's attic library, you in the beanbag with the book he lent you last week, and a pencil note in the margin of page forty that you have been pretending not to see for an hour.

2. The house is empty for the weekend, the lamp is on, and the dare you made him is a chapter he has never been able to read aloud.