“She thought you were dead.”
He lowered his head.
“I know.”
My anger finally broke through.
“You don’t get to keep saying that.”
He started crying.
“I was ashamed.”
“You didn’t have to come back fixed,” I told him. “You just had to come back alive.”
Noah was angry too.
His father had known he had an aunt and a cousin but had never told him. He couldn’t understand why Michael had kept the truth from him for so many years.
“I brought my boyfriend home to meet his mother,” Noah said, “and she turned out to be my aunt.”
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Tyler and Noah ended their relationship immediately after learning they were cousins.
For a while, they avoided each other. Eventually, though, they began talking again—not as boyfriends, but as two people trying to understand the strange family story they’d suddenly inherited.
