“Has no one done this for you?” Jin Guangyao asked, eyeing Xue Yang in the mirror.
“We raised a child together,” Jiang Wanyin says, voice thick with pain. “You two were sworn brothers.” He swallows hard and oh. Oh, no. Lan Xichen is not ready for this conversation. He is never going to be ready for this conversation. “And because of what he did, there is nowhere outside this room that either of us can mourn him.”
Lan Xichen has been in seclusion for half a year, healing, he thinks, from the way his world was upended that night in a temple in Yunping City. Then, Jiang Wanyin comes to visit—breaking the fragile peace he has been building, but offering, perhaps, a better healing.
Tom and Peter, partners in disguise.
Longing makes the world bright and the yearner blind, he knows, but even without his want soaking through and staining it, he thinks— he would be sure.
Crash needs Ginger. Ginger wants Crash.
Will Graham is very, very tired.
Billy and Eddie do business in the fall of 1984.
The prince has an admirer, and Horatio has a problem.