The Scandalous Step Siblings: First Enemies, Then Lovers
"For once in your life, Kai, you don't have to be the famous pianist. You don't have to be the golden boy. You just have to be a man."
He pulled back just enough to look at me, and his eyes were full of a raw, painful hunger that made my stomach flip. The "almost" that had been following us for months was right there in the room with us, a pressure that was becoming impossible to ignore in this glass cage. We were alone on the edge of the world with a monster at the gate and a secret that was eating us alive, but right now, the rest of the world felt like a dream.
"I don't know how to be a man without the music, Anya, I didn't.." he said, and his voice finally broke. "I'm worried there's not