Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #Step brother x Step brother(2)

Trigger Warning: Rape, incest (step brothers) Masayuki can still remember when his father remarried and he met his new mom and step brothers. The older Hajime was outgoing, confident and excelled at life. The younger Kei was awkward and quiet yet always quietly supportive. As they grew older Masayuki developed a serious inferiority complex around Hajime who was the sibling everyone thought most likely to succeed to the family business. And he desperately avoided his younger sibling who suddenly raped him before leaving home. The story focused on the relationship between the 3 brothers, particularly when Kei returned as a successful actor set to film in the family business. The relationship between Masayuki and Kei was particularly intense, with the vulnerable Masayuk being raped not once, but twice by his out of control younger sibling. Kei was portrayed as being consumed by his love for Masayuki; jealous by what he perceived as Masayuki‘s love for Hajime. These guys could both be so good for each other if they could start being honest. I enjoyed the story despite the rapes (not my favourite trope, and that’s an understatement). But it was interesting to note that Masayuki participated in the kissing, though there was no denying that he was devastated and confused by Kei’s actions.

Neighbours then step brothers, Hisaki and Yuzuru now only had each other after the death of their parents. When Hisaki realised his love for his younger step brother involved sexual desire he tried to suppress it by becoming a sex worker at a brothel. Specialising as a dom, Hisaki became the number one employee for his detached and cold edge when dominating his subs (something that seems amazing when you realise that he is actually a masochistic sub himself). When Yuzuru sees Hisaki enter a cheap motel with a client his rage reveals that he too has been struggling with repressed desire for his onii-chan. The rest of the story follows these guys as they slowly realise their feelings are mutual. For all that Hisaki looks sweet and blushingly innocent, he has a knack for dirty talk and Yuzuru is just the one to inspire him.