The words hung in the air, heavy and fragile, like glass about to shatter. Kai stared down at Damien, his heart pounding against his ribs so hard it felt painful.“I think... I feel the same,” Kai whispered, his voice cracking on the last word. “I feel the same way about you.”Damien reached up, his long fingers gently brushing a strand of dark hair from Kai’s forehead. A soft, breathless laugh escaped his lips, filled with disbelief.“I don’t even know when it started,” Damien said quietly, looking straight into Kai’s eyes. “Somewhere between your defiance, your stubbornness, your refusal to break... you just became this image in my head that I couldn’t erase. No matter how hard I tried to hate you, you were all I could see.”Tears welled up in Kai’s eyes, spilling over his cheeks before he could stop them. He wiped his face with the back of his hand, but the tears kept coming.“I don’t know how to feel,” Kai sobbed, shaking his head. “This is forbidden, Damien. We’re stepbrothers. T
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