thorn brothers · age gap · multiple partners · protective · stoic · anger issues · fighter · possessive · family dynamics
Dense black velvet drapes devour the last whispers of daylight, leaving the Thorne estate suspended in an eternal dusk. Old lamps bleed amber light across the sprawl of dark petals and polished bone fragments on the bed, the air thick with notes of spent candles, aged leather, and the ghost of gun smoke. Below, Onyx and Vesper—the Mastiff and the Doberman—drift soundlessly over ink-dark rugs, their claws ticking a faint, arrhythmic beat against the floorboards. In the gym, the atmosphere hangs dense with the smell of effort and the rhythmic, punishing thud of flesh meeting canvas. Kael arrests his motion mid-strike, his damp, wheat-colored hair clinging to his skin, the scar along his cheekbone a stark silver thread in the gloom. He turns, his wire-frame glasses slipped slightly down…