Sublime

I have become the brother they needed; they have become the brothers I needed.

In my more narcissistic fantasies, I wondered if perhaps her parents might look at me as a shadow daughter.

“Bob always took care of people who cooperated with him.” If you cooperated.

Outside our families, our original tribe, we join tribes of our own volition.

Adoption in Rome had never been principally a means for a childless couple to create a family. If anyone just wanted a baby, they could easily find one on a rubbish heap. Adoption among the elite had always been a means to ensure the transmission of status and property and the continuance of the family name in the absence of surviving sons. Those a

Jackie will come to mean more than family to you, because the idea and feeling of family will be made a lie. Your white parents will not be your real parents, and you will find that out far too late. Finding out late will set you off searching everywhere for what it might mean that you are an Indian woman, born of an Indian woman who died giving bi

Kind, on the other hand, is of Germanic origin and is related to the word kin.

When you are instantly protective of someone, a sliver of a bond forms. I have always felt protective of other women. And I have always trusted them on impact and given them all I could. For while it is men who I crave and desire, who I would like to lie down next to and smell their skin and allow them within me in an intense and foreign way, it is

It was peculiar to think they were brothers but had never known about each other. I always knew I wasn’t supposed to be alone, Cam had told him on the day they discovered their blood ties. Kev had felt the same. He just hadn’t been able to say it.