Step Brother's Deadly Obsession
“You don’t have to do everything alone.”
“I know,” I said. “But sometimes alone is the only way I remember who I am.”
“You don’t have to be alone with me in the room to remember that,” he said.
The words landed somewhere in my chest that made me flinch and smile at the same time. It was a small thread and we’d both started pulling it. I didn’t know if it would fray or hold. Right now, it existed, and that was enough.
We walked out together into the wet air. The world hummed with its own life: cars, distant music, someone laughing too loud at a bar. For a moment, everything else fell away.
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