“A Brother’s Resolve”

Deric

The morning air was too dry, too cold, yet somehow it felt like it wasn’t cold enough. I couldn’t shake the heat of everything that had happened, the revelations climbing at my chest. Elvira. My sister. The words echoed in my head as if they didn’t belong, as if some part of me would reject them outright, but the truth was stubborn. It was real. She was mine, in a way I had never allowed myself to understand before, and ...