“I didn’t want fake. I went for fake because it was easy. Brax’s heart is fucked, and Gage…” He shakes his head. “In their own time, they’ll come around. They’ll find someone real, like you, and it will be a game changer, just like you are for me, but right now, the fake is what’s getting them through each day. Not having to think too hard, not having to feel. The fake is how those who can’t have the real survive.”
