CHAPTER 5
“I’m sorry to interrupt and put my nose in, but I feel like I must,” Rhys said, then closed the door behind him and made his way over to join them on the couch. “Uncle Clove, I know all of this is so strange and confusing to you and having found out about Avery makes you feel cheated somehow, but you need to know what Uncle Destrain went through after you died.”
He didn’t really want to hear this, but he knew his nephew and his son wouldn’t let him go until he did. How could he make them understand that he didn’t hate Avery, he just felt…like he had failed, every time he saw the young man. He even understood when Destrain told him about Avery’s mother and how they were only friends, who one night both needed the comfort of another, but his guilt over not giving Destrain the nex
