Chapter 74. Options

Ten minutes into the silence was when I realized it.

I’m alone.

Alone in the sense that I no longer have anyone to be by me. To be there for me.

And perhaps I was too blinded by guilt that I failed to realize that everyone I ever had, or thought I had, just left.

The first to leave was my mother.

There was a time she used to be there for me, but after the accident, if I can even call it that, we no longer relate on a mother and son level. Now, all she cares about is continuing Adrian’s legacy.

Adrian never left because he was never there. His company and reputation were all that mattered to him.

And then I met Eddy. He was older but I didn’t care. He had what I wanted and after spending time with him, I realized that he understood. He was always there even when I didn’t want him to. But now? I’m afraid I have pushed him far away that he’d never return.

Leslie was a rebound. Adrian didn’t want his son to be labeled gay because of his re