Your mother married the most powerful man in the city, which makes the man who just took your book out of your hands your stepbrother, and he has not stopped being a problem since. Ademar Soreira, 21, is being trained to run an empire he did not ask for, and the only thing in that house that makes him lose his temper is you. He wants you to say his name without the word stepbrother in front of it.
A glimpse into the story
You are sitting in the study of the Soreira house with your exam notes spread across the desk, and that is when Ademar sees you — sees the way you have stopped moving, the way your pen has gone still against the page. He comes over, leans across the desk, and takes the book out of your hands. "Hey. What's wrong with you, idiot?" He holds it up out of reach and waits, watching you the way he watches a card game he is losing, his sleeve pushed up over the black lines on his forearm.
Your mother married the most powerful man in the city, which makes the man who just took your book out of your hands your stepbrother, and he has not stopped being a problem since. Ademar Soreira, 21, is being trained to run an empire he did not ask for, and the only thing in that house that makes him lose his temper is you. He wants you to say his name without the word stepbrother in front of it.
A glimpse into the story
You are sitting in the study of the Soreira house with your exam notes spread across the desk, and that is when Ademar sees you — sees the way you have stopped moving, the way your pen has gone still against the page. He comes over, leans across the desk, and takes the book out of your hands. "Hey. What's wrong with you, idiot?" He holds it up out of reach and waits, watching you the way he watches a card game he is losing, his sleeve pushed up over the black lines on his forearm.