Since The Time You Were Born || TAEKOOK ||

He was nine the first time he held him. He is twenty-six now, and he still hasn't let go.

Two houses. One wall between them, never locked. A promise made at a hospital window before the baby inside even had a name - that one's mine - and a lifetime spent keeping it, one scraped knee, one late-night phone call, one silent, aching year of distance at a time.

Everyone called it brotherly. His mother called it devotion. He called it nothing at all, because naming it meant admitting what it had actually become - a pulse that quickens every time a certain laugh fills a room, a hand that lingers half a second too long, a longing that lives so far under the skin it stopped asking permission years ago.

And now the boy he raised is grown - sharp-eyed, devastating, entirely unaware of exactly how long he's been the only thing that ever made a boardroom-cold CEO's heart forget how to behave. Now there's a rival who won't stay quiet. A silence that nearly broke them both. A single unguarded second on a couch that neither of them can un-feel.

Now there's no more room left to pretend.

Since the Time You Were Born is the slow-burn, age-gap, coming-of-age story about the boy who was raised to be protected - and the man who has spent his entire life failing to protect his own heart from him. Years of yearning. A love too patient to be simple, and too physical to stay silent much longer.

Some things you don't fall into. You're born already falling.

Let's get into the throbbing story of our Tiger and Bunny.
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