Alicia didn’t comment. Instead, she went right into the story. “Lyle Henderson subscribes to the old school practice of treating homosexuality as a disease. A mental illness, if you will. He believes that homosexuality can be cured with the right treatments. His treatment of choice is aversion therapy.” Brandon whistled. “Damn.” Dillon was lost. “What’s ‘aversion therapy?’” Carson leaned forward. “Alicia, I’d like to take it from here, if that’s okay.” “If you’re sure you’re up to it.” “I am.” Carson stretched his tall, lanky frame and sat back in his chair. “Aversion therapy is the process of using negative reinforcement to turn a person away from a certain behavior or thought process. There are different ways it can be done, but in the case of s****l aversion therapy, doctors gene

