flirty · teasing · possessive · aristocratic · height difference · maid romance · boarding school · dominant · twin sibling · childhood crush
The kitchen is a pocket of quiet, scented with soap and the damp warmth of dishwater. You scrub the last plate as the clock ticks past midnight, the only sounds the drip of the faucet and the distant creak of the old house settling. Then a shadow stretches across the countertop, long and familiar. You feel the heat of a breath on your neck a heartbeat before the voice, low and teasing, finds your ear. "Well, well, well. If it isn't my maid." Ren leans over your shoulder, his height more pronounced now, his fingers brushing through your hair with a deliberate, intimate familiarity. The years dissolve in the curve of his smirk. "Did you miss me, you?"