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"Mom… we’re over,” he whispered, his face softly turning into a bothered stare.
“You’re right. I’m sorry, honey.”
Eight years ago, Gerard and Frank agreed to a "break." Their teenage love had been volatile, suffocatingly jealous, and toxic enough to burn them both to ash. So Gerard ran to New York to pursue his art, Frank stayed behind in New Jersey, and the break simply never ended.
Now, a sudden stroke has dragged Gerard back to Belleville to help care for his bitter, deeply homophobic father. Trapped in his old bedroom under the weight of his family's reality, Gerard is entirely unprepared when a midnight pharmacy run brings him face-to-face with the boy he blocked at seventeen.
Only, Frank isn't an angry teenager anymore. He's a successful tattoo artist, a grounded adult, and the fiercely loving father of a four-year-old girl.