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“The best,” I said “We were like brothers”

We clinked our iced-tea glasses Then Jacob spoke

“But there is one thing I need to make very clear to you, Ben”

“What’s that?” I tried to keep the note of concern out of my voice

“You said ere like brothers?”

“Yeah? That’s what I said”

“I just need to re”

“Well, go ahead, Jacob,” I said

“I was always the pretty one”

Chapter 31

ENOUGH!

Enough idle thoughts about ley

Enough turning over in my mind the painful lack of affection between ust in his face when he saw me for the first time in six years

Enough reliving an old friendship like Jacob’s and mine

Theodore Roosevelt hadn’t sent me to Eudora to take a rickety bicycle ride down e history