“I never wanted to stay away. I needed to. I had a life mapped out for me and an education impossible to refuse. You did me a favour that day.” Richard paced around the room, as much as the cramped space allowed. “The day you tried to make me eat dirt. I was so…pissed at you. Pissed off and sad. I’d hated every moment of the boarding schools but that day…it made me see how vast the landscape was between us. The different worlds we’d come from. I stopped wanting to make friends with you.”
“You’re not making me feel the love here.” Ethan leaned against a bookcase, mindful not to jostle anything at the risk of something perched up top coming down to land on his head. He’d been shocked but followed Richard all the way down the path to the staff house and, inside, to the study. Only there had
