Chapter 6It was impossible to stay sad when Honey wanted to play. He took her to the nearby park and let her off the leash. They chased each other. He rolled on the grass with her. She played her own version of fetch—she expected him to go after the stick. Before he called her to heel, he was laughing at her antics. She seemed to feed on that, her puppy eyes wide and excited.
By the time he brought her back to the apartment, she was exhausted, and the lump was gone from his throat. Things wouldn’t change too much between Eddie and him. They were never as close as they could have been—as Aaron wished they were. He had always looked up to Eddie, but Eddie had always been too old for his younger brother. Besides, Eddie could mellow with age. It was optimistic, maybe overly so, but Aaron didn
