I AM MY STEPBROTHER'S OBSESSION
His hand brushed mine when he handed me my tablet, and for one second the almost-smile came back, small and tired but real.
The resort car was waiting on the tarmac. The air outside was warm and salty, the kind of breeze that promised vacation even when your life was falling apart. Luca held the door for me like nothing had changed, but everything had.
Whatever he'd been about to tell me on the plane... it was big. It was real. And whatever it was, it had been buried long enough that the turbulence and his father's stroke had only delayed it, not erased it.
I climbed into the car and watched him walk around to the other side, shoulders straight, face already settling into the Luca the world