Forbidden

He put velvet handcuffs on my wrists and the blindfold over my eyes. He told me to trust him, that I was going to like it. I didn’t know how to say yes.

Bruno was waiting at the door with a bouquet of roses and a smile that was not a brother’s. The apartment still smelled like paint, and we had the whole afternoon to break it in.

When she came out of the bathroom in the clothes I’d left on the bed, I knew that afternoon she’d obey every order without a complaint.

Until that night, I thought I already knew all my limits. One look, one gesture from him, and everything I thought I knew about my desire silently came crashing down.

I’d been pretending for years. When she suggested a weekend at a nudist beach with her friends, I never imagined it was the perfect trap to draw me out without warning.

It was raining outside, and she was looking at me in a way no one in my family ever had before. I knew what she was about to ask, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to say no.

The music was playing far away, the family was toasting downstairs, and I was still sitting on the bed, not understanding when his kisses had stopped being a game.

I remember every name, every room, and every kiss. But she looks at me as if I invented everyone I spent the night with.

When I crossed the hall, I heard every taboo I had crunched beneath my feet. I reached his door naked, with only my hair over my shoulders.

At eleven it was just two couples laughing around a bottle; by three in the morning we were four bodies that didn’t know who they belonged to.

When she came into the shower, she said nothing. She only pressed her nipples against my back and whispered for me to let her take control. My wife was thousands of miles away, with another man.

I thought the rain would leave me with nothing. Twenty meters away I saw the dark-skinned boy by the bench, soaked, and I knew the night was only beginning.

When I went down the stairs naked, my sister-in-law still didn't know what kind of surprise my father-in-law had prepared for her that night.

That afternoon, while my sister-in-law told me in lavish detail what my brother did to her in bed, I felt a heat between my legs I couldn’t explain.

One night, after too many beers, I said yes. What happened next forced me to rethink everything I thought I knew about myself.

When I realized something had changed, it was already too late. He was all the way in and he didn’t stop. Only then did I understand what he’d done without asking me.

I came out of the bathroom naked and he was there in the hallway, as naked as I was. We looked at each other, unable to move. That second changed everything.

We hired Valeria to care for my father-in-law, the man who had insulted me for years. No one imagined what would happen that morning in the bathroom.

Carmen looked at me from across the kitchen and, without saying a word, closed the distance between us. Her daughter was five meters away. That only made it harder to resist.

The night I saw that girl come out of Sister Graciela’s room, I should have kept walking. Instead, I stayed. And that changed everything.