章節 41: Chapter 41

He hadn’t talked to his mom in years, and his dad for even longer. He didn’t even know where his dad was these days, and he didn’t lose any sleep over it. Just, sometimes he looked at families like the Abbots and wondered how they were even real. And he worried that he’d never be able to love Wyatt in a way that Wyatt deserved, because nobody had ever shown him how.

His mom and dad’s marriage had been contentious at best, violent at worst. And then his mom had met and married his step-dad, and there was no violence, but Izzy had also never seen any real warmth between them either. Maybe they saved it for when they were in private, but he couldn’t help thinking that they just didn’t have that depth of feeling for one another that he was starting to feel with Wyatt. That, whatever it was between his mom and his step-dad, it wasn’t love