The Good Brother
If you try to cure evil with evil, you will add more pain to your fate
- Sophocles
COLTON
I’m no good at this s**t. I’ve never been any good at this s**t.
Sitting through a meal. Making small talk.
The second I stepped through the door of Ana’s parents’ house, it’s all I expect. Simple niceties. The awkward handshake from the prospective suitor, getting scoped out by the curious family members, ready to pounce at a moment’s notice.
It would be like the sappy f*****g movies. Only I’d find a way to f**k it up. Say something I shouldn’t. Do something any other “gentleman” wouldn’t.
I’d make them hate my goddamned guts.
It’s the only thought I have all the way through my flight out of New York and even when I catch the red-eye right out of Manhattan, putting on my bes
