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NOAH
Carson is dead.
Those three words had been on repeat in Noah’s mind for the last three days.
Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
His older brother.
It had to be a mistake.
He’d asked Jerald to repeat himself three times, and the outcome never changed. In the years since Carson disappeared, Noah never questioned whether he’d see him again. In his mind, he’d seen Jerald finding his brother happy and whole, living a grand life out of the spotlight their family put on them.
Heck, Noah couldn’t blame him for wanting to leave. He’d escaped too, hadn’t he? When he was twenty and left for the U.S., wasn’t that him abandoning the family? They sure thought so.
He spent a year waiting tables, living in a crowded apartment with three other blokes, and playing dodgy gigs wherever he could find them unt
