Stepping Over the Line: a Stepbrother Novel (Shamed)
“Didn’t she know five fucking years in prison had given me eyes in the back and sides of my head?
In that time, I’d loosened my own personal visitation policy to welcome visits from not just my father, but also Liam and Ella, Owen and Natalie, even Luke, and Carol and that Nathan kid who’d actually managed to make something of himself. The one person I’d considered a staple in my life who hadn’t shown up was Savannah—not that I’d expected her to. But I’d be lying if I said that when I’d finally ...added her name to my visitor list I hadn’t hoped. In the same respect, I hadn’t wanted her anywhere near that shithole. I hadn’t even wanted her breathing in the foul-ass perpetual stench of cigarette smoke and BO.
But look at us now, drenched in warm fall sun, drinking in gallons of crisp, loamy-scented air, no bars between us other than the ones we’d erected in our heads, and yet our friendship had perhaps irrevocably decayed. We were no longer the happy, colorful leaves at the top of my pile that everyone wants to take pics of and jump into.MoreLess
In that time, I’d loosened my own personal visitation policy to welcome visits from not just my father, but also Liam and Ella, Owen and Natalie, even Luke, and Carol and that Nathan kid who’d actually managed to make something of himself. The one person I’d considered a staple in my life who hadn’t shown up was Savannah—not that I’d expected her to. But I’d be lying if I said that when I’d finally ...added her name to my visitor list I hadn’t hoped. In the same respect, I hadn’t wanted her anywhere near that shithole. I hadn’t even wanted her breathing in the foul-ass perpetual stench of cigarette smoke and BO.
But look at us now, drenched in warm fall sun, drinking in gallons of crisp, loamy-scented air, no bars between us other than the ones we’d erected in our heads, and yet our friendship had perhaps irrevocably decayed. We were no longer the happy, colorful leaves at the top of my pile that everyone wants to take pics of and jump into.MoreLess
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