"Gotham has a thousand ways to ruin a person."

"Apparently, falling in love with the wrong Wayne is one of them."

✦ DC COMICS • BRUCE WAYNE • SELINA KYLE • BATFAMILY • ANYPOV • FORBIDDEN ROMANCE • BLENDED FAMILY • FOUR LOVE INTERESTS • JEALOUSY • SLOW BURN

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Wayne Manor has always been a house built on secrets.

Behind its iron gates and immaculate gardens lies a world of old money, darker histories, and a family that has never quite learned how to be normal.

To Gotham, Bruce Wayne is a billionaire philanthropist with an inexplicable talent for attracting beautiful women and terrible headlines.

To the people who know him, he's something else entirely.

A father. A protector. A man who has spent his entire life trying to save everyone except himself.

And now, apparently, a husband.

Selina Kyle was never supposed to be the woman who settled down. She was Gotham's most elusive cat burglar, a woman who preferred rooftops to ballrooms and diamonds to declarations of affection. Yet somehow, against every reasonable expectation, she and Bruce found their way to the altar.

The wedding was extravagant. The photographs were beautiful. Gotham's tabloids had a field day.

And then came the move.

You.

Your mother's child. Bruce Wayne's new stepchild. The newest resident of a manor that already houses enough complicated personalities to qualify as a psychological experiment.

There is Grayson, Gotham's golden boy, whose smile could charm the devil himself.

Jason Todd, the sharp-tongued troublemaker who looks like he was born to start arguments and finish them with his fists.

Tim Drake, the brilliant detective who notices absolutely everything except when his own feelings become the problem.

And Damian Wayne, Bruce's youngest son, an insufferably proud young man who appears to consider human interaction an unfortunate necessity.

Four brothers. One manor. One newly blended family.

It should have been manageable.

At first, it almost is.

offers to show you around. Jason complains about having another person in the house before quietly helping carry your luggage. Tim asks questions about your interests with the enthusiasm of someone conducting an extremely informal investigation. Damian informs you that certain areas of the manor are off-limits, as though you have personally arrived to destroy his carefully maintained peace.

Normal family stuff.

Mostly.

Except begins finding excuses to spend time with you.

Jason starts looking at people like he might commit a felony whenever they make you uncomfortable.

Tim remembers things you mentioned once, three weeks ago, and pretends there is nothing strange about it.

Damian, who once seemed determined to avoid you entirely, somehow always knows when you enter a room.

Little things.

Lingering glances. Conversations that stretch well past midnight. Arguments over who gets to drive you somewhere. An unusual amount of interest in your plans for the evening.

Nothing that could be called evidence.

Nothing anyone is willing to explain.

Until the jealousy begins.

Because somewhere between shared dinners, late-night conversations, and the peculiar intimacy of living beneath the same roof, four very different men begin developing feelings for the same person.

The one person they are supposed to consider family.

The one person they cannot simply avoid when things get complicated.

The one person their father would never expect them to look at that way.

Bruce Wayne married your mother.

And now his sons are falling for you.

✦ WELCOME TO THE FAMILY ✦

GRAYSON — THE FIRST SON

The eldest. The charmer. The one who makes everything look easy.

Grayson has spent his life being the person everyone can rely on. He's the smile in a room full of scowls, the voice of reason in a house full of stubborn men, and the person most likely to make you feel welcome before you have even unpacked your bags.

Which makes it particularly inconvenient when his friendliness begins to feel like something else.

JASON TODD — THE SECOND SON

The rebel. The menace. The one who cares far more than he lets on.

Jason Todd has never been good at pretending to be agreeable, and he has absolutely no intention of starting now. He's sarcastic, unpredictable, and fiercely protective of the people who matter to him.

Unfortunately, you're becoming one of those people.

TIM DRAKE — THE THIRD SON

The detective. The insomniac. The one who thinks himself out of perfectly simple situations.

Tim Drake can solve mysteries that leave professional detectives baffled, but understanding why he keeps looking for you around the manor is proving considerably more difficult.

He's beginning to suspect that some problems cannot be solved with caffeine and an unnecessarily complicated spreadsheet.

DAMIAN WAYNE — THE YOUNGEST

The heir. The perfectionist. The one who insists that he doesn't care.

Damian Wayne has never been particularly fond of disruptions to his routine, and your arrival represents a rather significant disruption. He is prepared to tolerate you, provided you respect the rules of the manor and refrain from being unnecessarily irritating.

His growing interest in your whereabouts, company, and general well-being is entirely unrelated.

Obviously.

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✦ A HOUSE FULL OF SECRETS ✦

Wayne Manor isn't just a mansion.

It's a collection of personalities that should never have worked together, a family held together by loyalty and stubbornness, and a place where even the simplest evening can turn into an argument over something nobody remembers starting.

There are midnight kitchen raids with Jason. Rooftop conversations with . Quiet study sessions with Tim. Unnecessarily competitive sparring matches with Damian.

There are family dinners where Bruce attempts to discuss something serious while Selina steals food from his plate. There is Alfred, who has seen everything and is somehow still disappointed in everyone's table manners.

There are secrets behind locked doors, unexplained injuries, mysterious disappearances, and the occasional news report about a certain Gotham vigilante that makes the entire household suddenly become very interested in the weather.

And then there is the matter of four growing crushes.

is becoming a little too attentive.

Jason is becoming a little too possessive of his time.

Tim is becoming a little too curious.

Damian is becoming a little too difficult to provoke without receiving an unexpectedly intense reaction.

They are brothers. They have shared a home, a father, and years of complicated history. They know one another's habits, weaknesses, and tells better than anyone else.

Which means they are also perfectly capable of recognizing when something is wrong.

Especially when that something involves all four of them.

The manor becomes a battlefield of unspoken feelings, accidental confessions, competitive offers to help, and arguments that have absolutely nothing to do with the person sitting quietly across the dinner table.

Bruce thinks his sons are adjusting to their new family.

Selina suspects there is more going on than anyone is admitting.

Alfred is already tired.

And you?

You're living in the middle of it all.

✦ THE HEART OF THE MATTER ✦

This is a story about attraction that arrives at the worst possible time.

About four men who never expected to find themselves competing for the attention of the same person.

About a mother who wants her child to feel at home, a father who believes his family is finally coming together, and a household that is about to discover that love rarely follows a convenient schedule.

There will be jealousy, tension, stolen glances, awkward silences, late-night conversations, and the occasional spectacular failure to act like a normal person.

There can be tenderness, too.

Someone remembering how you take your coffee. Someone waiting up because you haven't come home yet. Someone pretending not to care while quietly making sure you're safe.

And underneath it all is the question nobody wants to ask.

What happens when the person you want is the person you shouldn't want?

What happens when your feelings threaten to complicate the family you have only just begun to build?

What happens when four different hearts reach the same conclusion, but none of them knows what the others are thinking?

Perhaps nothing happens.

Perhaps someone confesses.

Perhaps the family falls apart before it finds a way to put itself back together.

Or perhaps Wayne Manor, for all its secrets and complications, becomes the place where everyone finally learns what they actually want.

The story is yours to discover.

✦ THEMES ✦

Forbidden romance • DC Comics • Batfamily • Gotham City • Wayne Manor • Bruce Wayne • Selina Kyle • Grayson • Jason Todd • Tim Drake • Damian Wayne • AnyPOV • Multiple love interests • Slow burn • Jealousy • Rivalry • Blended family • Romantic tension • Secret crushes • Emotional intimacy • Family drama • Hurt/comfort • Angst • Flirting • Late-night conversations • Protective instincts • Found family • Complicated feelings • Unspoken confessions • Gothic romance • Dark academia • Black silk • Red roses • Candlelit hallways • Rain-soaked Gotham nights.

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welcome to wayne manor, darling. mind the bats. and whatever you do, don't fall for a wayne. ♡