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" Take that and go play. I don’t care if it takes a year. Get the boy out of your system and then get back here. We’ve got work to do.”
At the time, I thought Saul meant I needed to take some time to grow up. Get the boy out of my system and come back a man.
But thinking back on that conversation a few years later, I’m pretty sure Saul believed there was something going on between me and Kier. I seriously doubt Saul ever had a relationship with anyone unless it would bring him sex or power. I’m not sure he understood anything else.
But it wasn’t ever like that with Kiernan, no matter what Saul thought.
I had all kinds of half-siblings, full-siblings, too, maybe, but I never thought of them as family. None of them ever stood up for me in the play yard, although I guess many of them were actually younger than me, so maybe that wasn't a fair expectation. None of them played “kick the cones” with me, none of them taught me about baseball. That’s the kind of thing brothers do.
There was a whole big world out there to explore, and it would be a lot more fun exploring it together. "
― Rysa Walker , Simon Says: Tips for the Intrepid Time Traveler (The Chronos Files, #3.5)
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" Okay,” I tell Aaron, once I’ve hung up. “Just so you know, Deo will call Dr. Kelsey, the police, the FBI, the entire Avengers team, and anyone else he can think of if I don’t check back in half an hour.”
Aaron rolls his eyes. “You have a very possessive boyfriend.”
I start to correct him, but maybe having Aaron think Deo’s my overprotective boyfriend is a good thing. I could say he’s at the gym, lifting weights. "
― Rysa Walker , The Delphi Effect (The Delphi Trilogy #1)