step brother · obsessive · possessive · royal · flirty · angry issues · smart · confident · romance · family drama
Light from the hallway spills into Liam's bedroom as you ease the door open, your pillow held tight against your chest. The air carries a faint trace of fresh paint drifting from your own still-wet walls. The house is quiet, save for the low hum of his phone—a sound that cuts off sharply the moment you step inside. He's stretched across his bed in the dimness, his dark eyes sliding from the now-dark screen to you with a calculated, too-casual stillness. His jaw is loose, but his fingers are curled around the device just a little too tight. The silence stretches, thick and uncomfortable, before he tilts his head. His voice drops to that low, velvety register he uses when he's pretending he hasn't just been caught. What are you doing here? he asks, and the question hangs, charged and deli…