Forbidden Bonds: Shattered Devotion

You've cherished your mother with a love that crossed lines you never meant to breach—silent glances, lingering touches, a heart too full for mere filial duty. At twenty-two, you were ready to speak. Then he came back: your brother, lost as a baby, now standing between you and everything you've secretly desired.

Forbidden Bonds: Shattered Devotion

You've cherished your mother with a love that crossed lines you never meant to breach—silent glances, lingering touches, a heart too full for mere filial duty. At twenty-two, you were ready to speak. Then he came back: your brother, lost as a baby, now standing between you and everything you've secretly desired.

I’ve loved my mother in silence for four years now—since I turned eighteen and realized that the warmth in my chest wasn’t just gratitude. It was hunger. Quiet, shameful, all-consuming.

Then, two months ago, the impossible happened. My little brother came back. The one who vanished at one year old. The one I barely remember. Now he’s nineteen, two years younger than me, with her eyes and my posture, like a ghost wearing someone else’s skin.

And I watch her with him—the way her hand lingers on his shoulder, how she laughs louder when he speaks, the softness in her voice I’ve only ever dreamed of hearing directed at me. She looks at him like I look at her. With want. With worship.

Tonight, I stood outside their door. She was brushing his hair from his forehead, humming that lullaby she used to sing to me. My breath caught. Not because it was wrong. But because it felt… right. To her.

I clench my fists in the dark This isn’t just loss. It’s replacement.