Confessions

It started the summer the world broke. His father had packed a suitcase, offered a hollow apology, and traded their family for a "new beginning" with a woman he barely knew. In the wreckage, there appeared—the woman’s son, a sudden and desirable unwanted shadow.

He was everything: effortless, bronze-skinned, and comfortable in his own skin. He moved through the house with a feline grace that made the air feel too thin to breathe. But he had to breathe to live to discover what it was that attracted him to this beautiful man five years older than him.