Talent To Burn (Hidden Talent #1) - Plot & Excerpts
He had been a boy then, and now he was a man. As a man, he was thinner than he had been in childhood: much, much, thinner. I couldn’t believe how drawn and gaunt his face had become. His cheeks sank in beneath his cheekbones. His skin was yellow with the remnants of a fading tan, and cast with gray hollows under his eyes and through the shadow of stubble on his jaw. He’d buzzed his hair, showing off too clearly the shape of his skull. In my dreams, he’d had long hair. I wondered at the difference. Finally, my gaze came to rest on his eyes. They were blank holes in his face, like footprints in snow. This wasn’t the Eric I’d known before. This was a dead man walking. I stood and walked over to him. We had never been a demonstrative family, but I felt as though I should hug him, or something. I must have twitched my intent, because he took a step back. “Hey, sis,” he said, his voice more casual than I’d expected. “I guess you made it here. Welcome.” “Can we take a walk?”
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