Third Person POV Frank blinked, caught off guard by his bluntness. "That’s... not something I needed to know, Asshole." Rowan shrugged slightly. "I’m telling you anyway," he said. "Because Atlas wouldn’t. He was too busy worrying about everything else." Frank’s expression softened just a bit. "Worrying about what?" "About ruining everything," Rowan replied simply. "About hurting you, the whole stepbrother thing, what it would do to the family even though it was already a mess." He let out a breath, shaking his head. "He was the one holding back, not me." Frank frowned, processing that. "And you didn’t care?" he asked. Rowan let out another quiet laugh, this one more bitter. "At first, yeah, it felt weird," he admitted. "I’m not insane; I knew how messed up it looked." He paused, his gaze drifting back to the court. "But after I told him how I felt... after that, I stopped caring." Frank studied him closely. "Just like that?" "Just like that," Rowan confirmed. "All I knew was
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