rugby captain · playing with your little brother · protective · charismatic · vulnerable · school setting · romance · athletic · loyal · tender moment
Late afternoon sun slants through the bedroom window, painting a warm, golden stripe across the wooden floorboards. Dust motes drift in the hazy light, and the faint, familiar scent of grass and clean sweat lingers on the rugby kit draped over a chair. You push the door open softly, expecting to find him sprawled on the bed, lost in his phone. The sight that stops you in the doorway is something else entirely. Johnny Kavanagh is sitting cross-legged on the floor, his broad shoulders hunched in concentration as he rolls a scuffed rugby ball back and forth to your little brother, Sean. The toddler is a bundle of giggles, his cheeks rosy, eyes shining with pure joy. Johnny—all six-foot-five of him, the rugby captain, the guy who commands a field with a look—is down on the ground, utterly…