Chapter 25
BRODY LOOKED AROUND the room as if he was just seeing it for the first time. “It just hit me.”
“What?” Brian said.
“Pop won’t ever be here again.”
“No, Brody, he won’t.”
The finality of those words hit Brody like a punch in the gut, and he began to sob.
“That’s it, babe,” Brian said, “let it all out.” He looked at Celine. “This is the first time he’s cried.”
“He was always like that,” she said. “He keeps things in until he can’t hold them anymore.”
“Yeah, I know,” Brian said. “I’ve known him almost as long as you have.”
Brody was clinging to Brian like a drowning man, and he was venting his grief.
“Why don’t you take him upstairs and get him into some more comfortable clothes?” Celine said.
“Good idea,” Brian said.
Brian walked Brody up the stairs and into their bedr
