Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother

Because of that, I swore that I would change.

My twisted relationship with Felix started when I was still in Mom’s womb.

Aunt Mel and Mom were best friends, and coincidentally, they both lived right opposite each other on the same level in the same apartment block. Thus, our families were close to each other.

When Mom was pregnant with me, Felix was still a toddler who waddled around in diapers.

Aunt Mel had been watching Felix play under a tree and suggested, “Harper, if your child is a girl, she should just marry Felix so we could all be a happy family!”

Mom had replied, “Well, that’s not up to me. We’ll let her decide in the future.”

“Felix, come here! Would you like the girl in Aunt Harper’s belly to be your wife?” Aunt Mel asked.

Felix had laid in Mom’s lap, giggling as he sucked on his thumb and mumbled the word “wife” repeatedly. He had amused Mom and Aunt Melinda so much that they decided to go ahead with the unofficial betrothal.

marriage was settled before I was even

a wife really meant, I had no say

I had always acted in a way I thought wives were supposed

would take a bite before keeping the rest for him. When he

school. I would cheer him on, risking the possibility of getting

would cheer him on when he was playing sports, yet all I received

him, accompanied him, and loved him. Since I liked him so much and treated him so well, I had thought he would

night that I realized I was nothing more than a clingy neighbor he couldn’t seem to get

why he always frowned when he saw me. He never smiled at me, and the way

and Dad. Having finished cleaning up

couldn’t seem to say anything, so she just

beloved daughter would be humiliated like that. She was a loving mother to me, so I knew she felt as

friends who had coincidentally bought apartment units opposite of each other.

be said that Aunt Mel and

Felix wasn’t the only one at stake. Mom and Aunt

deeply about Aunt Mel, and I couldn’t bear

also understood that feelings couldn’t be