I’ll do anything not to marry the girl my parents want me to.

Including marrying her brother in a drunken panic.

I’m not gay, but I can fake it long enough to get our parents off my back, right?

Cue hiding out for the next two years, but nothing is that simple, because I’m offered a spot on the US National team.

Now we have to fake it for the entire world as the poster boys of gay fencers while Colin makes me doubt everything I think I am.

I’m not prepared for all the ways I depend on Colin. Or the place he’s filling...

I’ll do anything not to marry the girl my parents want me to.

Including marrying her brother in a drunken panic.

I’m not gay, but I can fake it long enough to get our parents off my back, right?

Cue hiding out for the next two years, but nothing is that simple, because I’m offered a spot on the US National team.

Now we have to fake it for the entire world as the poster boys of gay fencers while Colin makes me doubt everything I think I am.

I’m not prepared for all the ways I depend on Colin. Or the place he’s filling in my life.

But I can’t keep this up.

I’m slipping on a national stage.

And he’s going to press every button until I snap, ruining this for us both.