Twin brothers Brian and Matt Walker went to live with their mother’s brother after the death of their parents at an early age. Brian is still wracked with the guilt he carries around from a young age and sees the world through a distorted lens of self-loathing. When he meets a sexy and interested college-aged guy at the beginning of his senior year of high school, he may have finally found someone who can help him escape his mundane existence.<br><br>Matt has his life all planned out -- he longs for a solid career in journalism after graduating college. But his tenuous hold on family life threatens his dreams of independence, as does the attentions of a closeted new transfer to their school.<br><br>Can Matt pull away enough from his family to come into his own? And will Brian finally get to grips with his past and allow his twin to chase his own happiness?

Twice the Hands to Hold

“I’m sorry,” he said immediately. Matt didn’t look up at him, the quiet deafening around them. “Sorry,” he said again.


Matt slumped to the ground as they heard the front door open. “Just get in the shower before Jakey smells the beer on you.”


He wanted to bend down and hug his brother. He should be able to show him how much he loved him. How could that be wrong? He should have bent down and forced Matt to see it. Instead Brian left Matt sitting on his haunches in the hallway and made his way into their bathroom, his toe painfully contracting and giving him a limp. 5: Sunday


It was late in the afternoon when his brother made his way out of his room. Matt sat discussing the year’s first print edition of the school paper with Lexie on the couch, a lazy Sunday spread of snacks littering the coffee table.


She snapped her computer shut and took his tablet from him and replaced it with a soda instead. “Enough work. Your mind isn’t on it anyway.”


Chapter 26