2 Works by ashonthegrid
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Lewis Hamilton is the name behind Milan’s most influential ethical luxury empire; a man with a perfect life who, behind the catwalks, is shattered. Three years after losing Nico, his husband and the father of his son, Leo, he is unable to decipher the language of his own child. Leo, aged three, is a riddle of silences and crises that no specialist has managed to address. He is the sole link to a shared past with Nico and a constant reflection of what Lewis does not know how to save.
Desperate for a bridge to reach Leo, he turns to an elite nursery where pedagogy and neurology promise to help him reclaim the bond he fears is lost.
Franco Colapinto is a prodigy who arrived in Milan with a mind capable of perceiving what others ignore. He does not expect his clinical placement to hurl him into the centre of the Hamilton universe, facing a child with the face of his greatest hero and the broken gaze of the man who once loved him.
Leo is the small hand that joins theirs. And in every breakthrough, in every shared silence, something begins to take root where before there was only absence.
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Lewis Hamilton needs no one. In his restoration workshop in London, silence is his only ally and metal is his only language. He has spent years building a fortress of perfection and solitude, where the shadows of his past cannot reach him and where control is the only way not to crumble.
Then comes Franco.
Franco Colapinto is everything that Lewis has tried to eradicate from his life: it’s noise, it’s heat, it’s a raw and messy passion that doesn’t know how to respect the walls of ice.
Lewis is determined to be his wall, to wear it out with impossible tasks and sharp silences until the boy surrenders and returns to Argentina. But when the friction between the two begins to generate a heat that Lewis can no longer ignore, he realizes that Franco has not come to learn from him, but to remind him that sometimes the most broken pieces are the ones that shine the most when they finally fit together.