The Person You Choose
The way he'd learned to do everything that mattered.
The party was loud, crowded, the kind of space that demanded performance. Grayson performed. The ease, the charm, the quarterback who had everything and wanted nothing. He drank enough to make it convincing, not enough to lose control. The balance he'd learned, the inheritance managed, the temper locked down.
Nico found him at midnight. Behind the house, vomiting into the bushes. The body betraying what the face had hidden.
"She's not worth this," Nico said. The easy diagnosis, the friend who saw symptoms and missed disease.
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