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“We need to work together,” Lochlan blinks against a sudden onslaught of tears. “To handle this.”
“Me,” Saxon answers, voice cold and hard as ice, “I will handle it. Not you. Baby brother.” he says it and his voice is dripping with scorn, like the nickname is a bad taste in his mouth.
And the thing is, it’s not that Saxon is never mean to him. He is, often. But there’s always something to do. You apologize even if he was the one who lost his temper, you drink the warm beer he has smuggled to you even though you hate the taste, you stop reading and turn to face him and he lights up. And it is all okay. Lochlan doesn’t know what to do now, how to break the spell.
The few people who have seen a beach in advance of a tidal wave have described it, not as beautiful, but as like being on another planet. The floor of the ocean laid bare in a way it was never meant to be.Or, Timothy kills himself in prison and his family deals with the fallout.