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

“When I’m with you. When I’m not with you. When I think about you. Shit, even when I’m not thinking about you, I’m thinking about you. I don’t know what’s going on with me.”


Brian grinned and tried to lighten the mood. “I have that effect on most people.”


Oliver shoved him, but smiled down at him.


“It’s all good, man,” Brian said. “It just is what it is.”


“What’s all good? That I’m gay for you?”


“I don’t know what else to call it.”


Brian looked into Oliver’s eyes. No bullshit, no fronting, just a scared boy laying it all out there. “You’ve never felt this before?”


“Before you? No, man. And it scares the shit out of me.”


Brian nodded, then looked down at their crossed legs again but feeling the tight arm around his shoulders intently. “Look, like I said. Labels don’t mean shit. You don’t have to be gay or bi or whatever. You’re just Oliver.”


This time Oliver smiled. “When did you become so evolved?”


Chapter 72