Chapter 133 B 5

• “That's not—”
• “That's what everyone thinks. My brother, my friends, and now, you,” Kael choked out, more tears following the first. He cried silently, his shoulders shaking. “No one will ever want me like this. I know I'm not as beautiful as James, and can never be. He has it all, while I'm stuck with nothing!” The tears rolled down freely on his cheeks, and he didn't even wipe them off.
• The sight of him crying shattered Ethan's last resistance. The guilt was still there, cold and heavy, but it was suddenly outweighed by a hotter, more urgent need, the need to comfort, to provide, and to be the one who showed him he wasn't wrong.