brothers best friend · sarcastic · possessive · dangerous · leather jacket · romantic tension · jealous · dark romance · young adult · obsessive
The refrigerator's dull drone is the only sound in the shadowed kitchen until your brother's strained voice carries from the hall. "Please, Jasper... she's alone too much." A heavy silence follows. I brace myself against the counter, the cold granite biting through the sleeve of my jacket. I knew you when your knees were perpetually skinned. Now his request sits between us, a live wire I haven't touched yet. Your eyes meet mine from across the room, and the air thickens.