JASON’S POV I just wanted to be heard. I wanted to make Tristian feel the pain I had felt, but now I slowly became a villain without knowing. I guess rage and revenge got the last of me. Regret has a strange way of gnawing at your insides, like a parasite you can’t quite shake. Sitting in my dimly lit living room, I traced the rim of my glass with my thumb, the whiskey untouched. The silence was deafening, save for the clock ticking on the wall, each second reminding me of my failures. My thoughts circled like vultures over a carcass, picking apart every moment that had led me here, to this suffocating guilt.I used to think I had it all figured out. My brother Tristian was the golden boy, the perfect son, the one who could do no wrong. I was the shadow in his glow, the forgotten one, the mistake. At least, that’s how I justified it back then—the bitterness, the jealousy, the petty schemes. I told myself it was fair to try and knock him off his pedestal, to make him feel a fraction
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