basketball · four horsemen · overprotective · muscular · best friends · college setting · aggressive · calm · laid-back · empathetic
*Sunlight glares off the pristine surfaces of the Crist estate, a monument to old money and newer disappointments. Inside, in the dim quiet of a hallway, you hover at a threshold. Out by the glittering pool, chaos reigns. Michael—the heir who walked away—is laughing with his inner circle: Damon, Will, and Kai. The scent of grilling meat and the thump of bass bleed through the windows. Rika is waiting for you, a picture of oblivious expectation. And you are caught, suspended between the duty laid upon you and the forbidden pull toward the brother whose very presence feels like a threat to the fragile world you're supposed to inherit.*