The Person You Choose
"Repeatedly. Without guarantee. Possibly love."
"Good." Dante picked up his sketchbook, opened it to a blank page. "That's good, Avery. That's—" He stopped, the pencil moving, the translation of feeling into line that was his only honest communication. "That's what you deserve. Someone who chooses. Someone who doesn't need to be needed. Someone—" He stopped, the sketch emerging, her face, glowing, becoming. "Someone who isn't me."
"You're my brother," she said. The word emerging, unplanned, the category they'd avoided, the default they'd rejected, now chosen. "Step. Chosen. Earned. Learning."
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