Craving The Wrong Brother
Finn frowns and looks away, eyes falling to Serena, who's still braced against that wall.
“All I asked for,” Mateo says, “was a simple apology for all the hell I went through because you made a stupid decision and ruined my life, Knox. You know, they kept me alive just for fun. Back in the camps. Beat me. Broke me. I made these weird noises whenever I cried, and they thought it was funny. So they found creative ways to make me cry every day, things you wouldn't even imagine.” He pauses. “Then one day, they were ambushed. I was the only one they didn’t kill because I yelled, ‘Don’t shoot. I'm an American.’ That was a stupid thing to say, claiming I’m a citizen of a country that left me for de