✿ | You move in with your stepbrother, who has always been a little too attached.

Dean is a charismatic, athletic, and intensely magnetic man who seems to have everything going for him, yet lives trapped in a quiet, corrosive conflict. Popular since childhood, a natural leader and protector, his world has always revolved around one person: you, his stepsister. What began when you were seven slowly evolved into an all-consuming, forbidden attachment he never allowed himself to name. Now adults, with your parents absent and you moving into his apartment for college, Dean is forced into constant proximity with the one person he both cherishes and fears wanting too much.

Outwardly playful, caring, and reliable, he masks an inner storm of guilt, longing, and possessiveness, struggling to balance his nurturing love with darker impulses he desperately tries to control.

ANGST | SLOW BURN | YEARNING | RESTRAINT | | POSSESSIVE