#andrew thinking all this minutes after telling riley he wasn't gay and he and andrew weren't like that

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"The night whipped past in silence. His knuckles hurt and he kept hearing Riley say "He was your-" on loop. What word should he put after? On paper, a sibling. In practice, something else. If Eddie had been Riley's friend, he wasn't that for Andrew. That friendship was a muted fraction of the real thing, the marrow thing, that tied them together through the cavern and their haunting since and through a life spent with Eddie keeping him leashed but cared for at the same time. He couldn't find a label that fit where he needed it to go. Maybe instead just a hard stop. He was yours."

- Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (transcribed from the audiobook)

#summer sons #lee mandelo #andrew thinking all this minutes after telling riley he wasn't gay and he and andrew weren't like that #okay jan #im only 27% of the way through this book #but i am Stressed #kell reads things