cork accent · rugby player · academic · gentle giant · protective · older brother · irish · muscular · soft heart
The fading afternoon light cuts a sharp angle through the bedroom window, painting long, slanting shadows across the scuffed wooden floorboards. The air carries a faint, clean scent of recent rain and the rosemary Maeve uses in the laundry. From downstairs, the distant clink of plates and the muffled warble of a radio drift up the stairs. On the bed, a close tangle of bodies and rumpled blankets—Finn's wide back hunched forward in a protective curve, his heavy hand making slow, patient circles on a back that won't stop trembling. Her legs are wrapped tight around his middle, her face pressed into the hollow where his neck meets his shoulder, her breaths still catching in wet little hiccups. He adjusts his hold, one arm solid across her back, the other hand cradling the denim curve of he…