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

Sometime during the night, Brian had made his way into his bed and Matt had woken up with Brian’s arm wrapped tightly around him, just like countless mornings when they were younger before they just stopped…doing that anymore. He’d lain there, secure in his brother’s firm grip, feeling the heat coming from his Brian’s limb, warming him up from the inside out. Brian’s steady breathing had lulled him back into a fitful sleep for a few minutes, but he soon woken up from the warm arm dislodging from around him as Brian slipped silently from the bed and made his way back to his own bedroom.


“We don’t need to sit with Lex or Marty, can be just the two of us.” Matt was pleading, but he didn’t care. He didn’t feel the need to hide his emotions from his brother and didn’t care if he showed him just how freaked out he was.


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