The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Anything worth doing is worth doing well,” Xander quoted, wiggling his eyebrows—one of which had only just started to grow back after an experiment gone wrong. “And anything done well can be done better.” Why would a Hawthorne settle for better, a voice whispered in the back of Grayson’s mind, when they could be the best?

“and I am definitely not writing a book entitled The Care and Feeding of Your Broody Twenty-Year-Old Brother.”

“Nash Westbrook Hawthorne,” Xander boomed. “Prepare yourself for a bracing, celebratory hug of manly joy!”

“Why not you, Gray?” Nash leaned forward, putting his gaze level with Grayson’s. “Someday, with

Protecting things that mattered was what Grayson Hawthorne did, even when he couldn’t afford to let them matter too much.

He had three new voicemails and two texts from Xander. The first text said: Call me back in ten minutes, or I’m going to fill your voicemail with yodeling. The second text was a reminder: I do not excel at yodeling.

“When words are real enough, when they’re the exact right words, when what you’re saying matters, when it’s beautiful and perfect and true—it hurts.”

“Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all.”