![]() I learned we were the same age, only he was a September kid while I was turning twenty-nine in a few weeks. It’d taken us half an hour to get a buzz, and in that time, we’d gotten a few random topics out of the way. ![]() This was the escape I’d needed for months now. I groaned and dragged my hands over my face. “Fuck, that’s it,” I hissed as the burn slid down. Who needed to try cocaine to spice up their boring life when you could meet an Irish enigma from Boston? He poured another round of shots, and I chased one down with a swallow of beer. If we could go back to when we met on the train…if we could erase the deceit, erase our first hello…would we? Excerpt Just not enough to stop, not enough to walk away, and I knew we constantly asked ourselves the same question because of it. Were we monsters or men? Were they one and the same? Did we give a flying f-hell. ![]() Not unless I was prepared to hurt everyone around me. ![]() I saw everything I wanted that I couldn’t have. I saw Kieran standing behind me, pressing a kiss to my shoulder while he undid my belt. My sister asked me if I could stand the sight my own reflection, if I’d caused enough damage yet, but I didn’t see myself when I looked into the mirror. ![]()
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