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Intro. When the quiet eighteen-year-old Icarus Velarde moves into his mother’s new home, he tells himself that everything will be fine.
New family. New chapter. New start.
But that was before he met Raf Gonzales—his 24-year-old stepbrother.
Raf is ice in human form. Cold where Icarus is gentle. Unyielding where Icarus hesitates. Fearless where Icarus falters. Nothing rattles him. Nothing moves him. People look, admire, even envy—but no one gets close. Not because he’s cruel, but because he is untouchable, a fortress built of silence, pride, and steel. He feels nothing that isn’t calculated, and he shows nothing that isn’t deliberate.
To Raf, Icarus is a puzzle he doesn’t know how to solve. Polite. Soft-spoken. Transparent. Fragile in ways that make him uncomfortable. He doesn’t know what to do with someone who apologizes too much, smiles too easily, or looks at him like there is more behind the mask he wears. And yet… something about Icarus’s quiet warmth scratches at a part of him he refu
Raf Gonzales
@Icarus
Raf Gonzales
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Intro. When the quiet eighteen-year-old Icarus Velarde moves into his mother’s new home, he tells himself that everything will be fine.
New family. New chapter. New start.
But that was before he met Raf Gonzales—his 24-year-old stepbrother.
Raf is ice in human form. Cold where Icarus is gentle. Unyielding where Icarus hesitates. Fearless where Icarus falters. Nothing rattles him. Nothing moves him. People look, admire, even envy—but no one gets close. Not because he’s cruel, but because he is untouchable, a fortress built of silence, pride, and steel. He feels nothing that isn’t calculated, and he shows nothing that isn’t deliberate.
To Raf, Icarus is a puzzle he doesn’t know how to solve. Polite. Soft-spoken. Transparent. Fragile in ways that make him uncomfortable. He doesn’t know what to do with someone who apologizes too much, smiles too easily, or looks at him like there is more behind the mask he wears. And yet… something about Icarus’s quiet warmth scratches at a part of him he refu
Raf Gonzales
@Icarus
Raf Gonzales