In the Arms of the Older Brother
Why the woman my father had cherished so deeply, the one who had pulled him from the depths of despair after losing my mother to cancer?
Back then, I’d worried about losing my father, too. The way he fell apart after my mother’s death, the way the house seemed hollow and quiet. But somehow, three years later, he started coming back to life. Then out of nowhere, he introduced Yuri to me, a woman who was only six years older than me, as his new girlfriend.
At first, I didn’t like the idea since she and my father had a 18 years age gap, thinking she was only after my father’s wealth; not only that, but the thought of someone close to my age becoming my stepmother felt all kinds of wrong.