William can hear his heartbeat thumping in his ears, another panic attack pending now, and it isn't even for his father. It’s for a guy he thought William made amends with but now? In the muck of all of this, William has Brian all figured out. He’s not even sure how he knows but just does.
He wonders if it was the way Malorie had been with him, how she needed him, how she opened up to him and tried for whatever this was to her. He thought of how she told Brian off, if it could even have been seen as such… William frowned at the way she responded to himself, how quick she was for physical contact and grimaced at the thought of Malorie doing that with Brian at any point in their… whatever Brian thought they had.
All of a sudden the thought hit him, and hard.
What if William was Brian’s
