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331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 15, 2023
"I had been the body he improved his art on. I’d gotten to see and feel the changes as we both grew into our sexuality. There was power that came with that. A possessiveness, too. His abilities belonged to me. I drank to keep from launching myself at him."
"I needed to lose control, to have it stolen from me. I needed to be robbed of free will. I was a ball of repression, of pent up aggression, and he was pleasant, a tranquil sea, when what I needed was a fucking tornado to come through and rip everything down to its foundation, including me. I needed him to be Cole."
“I’ll forgive every imaginable sin against me that your martyr's heart will conjure up. I’m telling you this now because I know how your mind works, Jasper. And when our time comes, I don’t want a moment of it wasted on you beating yourself up. There isn’t anything I couldn’t forgive you for. There is nothing to forgive.”
"So what if you two used to be stepbrothers? Bigger scandals have been over-come.... If that's what's keeping you two apart, you're both idiots."
"I focused on what I could do to help Jasper right then, and discreetly slid the hand closest to him under the table, searching out his fingers, then hooking my pinky around his and squeezed."