Excerpt: The Comeback King

✨EXCERPT: THE COMEBACK KING by @rileyhartwrites releasing June 17th! 

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The sounds of the city are loud even this far up, bright lights in the distance. Hunter is standing with his back to me, hands stuffed in the pockets of his slacks as he looks out at the view of LA.

“Don’t jump,” I say. “My father would hate to lose the favorite son he has left.” As soon as I say the words, I wince. I don’t know why shit like that comes out of my mouth sometimes, but I can’t seem to stop it.

“Fuck you, Lucas,” he says without turning around.

My relationship with Hunter is complicated. I hated him on principle when he first started coming around because he was everything my father wanted me to be, everything he wanted Ellis to be, but at least Ellis wasn’t artsy. At least he didn’t get lost in the clouds and pick pretty flowers that he put in his hair. Even when it was clear Ellis liked men too, it was acceptable to be queer the way Ellis was queer, the way Hunter is queer, but less so the way I am. The guy who sometimes paints his nails.

The Blake men were supposed to play sports, not take photos and prefer to be alone or go to an art gallery instead of a game. Add to that “squandering” my natural football talent, and I was always a disappointment. That’s not Hunter’s fault, but I still hated him for it, and even more so when he was kind to me. Looking at me with those soft blue eyes when my father said something hurtful; sticking up for me with my brother.

I knew he was beautiful the first time I saw him, felt my heart race and my stomach flip, but when I started looking at him the way a guy shouldn’t look at his brother’s boyfriend—or hell, even his best friend—it gave me another reason to hate him and myself.

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