Chapter Twenty-Five
The conversation with Jason was difficult, but it would have been a lot worse without Gretel. She let them do most of the talking, but when things got heated, she found a way to bring them back to earth.
“So you’re a hundred percent sure this is what you want?” Zander finally asked, once he’d gotten the bitter taste out of his mouth.
“I want to try it.” Jason fiddled with the Alyeska lift pass he refused to remove from his jacket. “If I get too homesick I can always come back. Right?”
“Jesus, of course you can. This is your house just as much as mine.” How could his brother even doubt that? Maybe he’d been too much of the hardass platoon leader and not enough of the empowering older brother.
“Do you think Petey will be okay without me?” Jason shoved back his tumble
