It was encouraging that he was willing to at least give it a shot. If the kid had any family left, he deserved to know, and they deserved to know he’d survived too, and if not, then at least Sterling would have a safe place to stay with them if he wanted it.
“What if she’s far away? How will I get to her?” he finally asked, trying not to sound so painfully hopeless about it all. He wanted to say he was homesick, but that was too mild of a term.
While Lyri helped raise Ben (because she is dating both of his parents), she has always treated him more like her little cousin. Which, I mean, he is her little cousin, but he still calls her mom.
Only muses cooperating right now
Ben:
Lyri:
So who wants a thing from either of these fucking dorks?
Despite being biologically Kat’s son, Ben is a lot more like Lyri. So much so that he and Lyri often go to clubs together and he’s prone to borrowing her clothes.
“I wear your granddad’s clothes and I look incredible.”
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