My brother avoids my gaze, suddenly fascinated with a speck of dust on the table as he shrugs. ‘It doesn’t matter Li, just forget I said anything.’
‘Elliott’ I growl, glaring at him until he reluctantly meets my gaze. ‘No more secrets! I’m a big boy, you don’t need to protect me anymore, please! Tell me what is going on.’
My brother lets out a long, defeated sigh. ‘We were thinking . . . about having another kid’ he admits. The confession is soft, a light filling my brother’s face at the mention of growing his family. ‘We’re in a good place financially, EJ is about to go into school . . .’ He shrugs tiredly, ‘we always wanted a big family, lots of kids running around the house . . . after EJ, he was a bit of a difficult birth, we took a break on trying again but we always thought we’d ha
