When My Fiance Fell in Love With My Sister, I Walked Away
【What should I do if I’ve fallen in love with my sister’s fiancé?】
I came across an Instagram post from an account with a default profile picture on my flight back to New York.
The comments were brutal, each one harsher than the last.
Then I saw a reply from a burner account:
【Don’t blame her. I was the one who led her on.】
【She acts tough, but she’s more fragile than anyone. I just can’t help feeling sorry for her.】
My finger froze on the screen, because the profile picture on that account was the cat my boyfriend, Vincent, had given me.
With trembling fingers, I opened the poster’s profile.
There was only one video on it. In the video, a woman had her back to the camera as she bent down to water a nearly dead plant, a silver bracelet on her wrist.
It was the matching bracelet mom had left for my sister Clara and me before she died.
For a long moment, I could barely breathe.
Suddenly, I thought back to the first time I brought Vincent home to meet Clara.
After one failed relationship, Clara had decided all men were the same. She looked at Vincent coldly and said,
“He’s no different from the rest. One day, he’ll betray you too.”
Vincent held my hand then and said, each word clear and steady,
“If I ever betray Nora, may I lose everything.”
Clara only scoffed, “Then we’ll see.”
But if all of this was true, I was caught between the sister who had raised me and the man I had loved for five years.
What was I supposed to do?