Does love understand limits? Not for Julia. She was in love with her brother, well, he wasn’t really her brother: he was her stepbrother. Julia had grown up in a somewhat peculiar family. Her mother was the epitome of indifference. She was a cold and distant person, to whom nature seemed to have forgotten to give what we call her maternal instinct. She only cared about her work and going to the gym every day to always be perfect. Her mother had only limited herself to giving birth and then leaving Julia in the hands of her closest nanny, who had been in charge of caring for her and educating her since the day she was born.
His father was a businessman, a wealthy and talented businessman whose only interest was money. It had been many years since he had abandoned Julia and her mother from her to run away hand in hand with one of his many lovers from her. Since then her Julia did not see him.
On the other hand was John. Juan was his mother’s boyfriend, a nice and affectionate man with whom she had remade his life. Julia really couldn’t explain how Juan could put up with his mother: they were totally opposite poles. He the goodness, she the evil. Juan was the only one who cared a bit about Julia, although, of course, he wasn’t her father and Julia had no choice but to always live in the absence of her father figure.
In the midst of this poisoned environment of loneliness, everyone wondered how Julia could continue to move forward. Well, the answer had a name: Alfonso. Alfonso was the son of Juan, her half-brother. From the beginning they had gotten along very well, when they were together it seemed that the rest of the world did not exist. They joked, laughed and got along perfectly. Alfonso was a calm, independent and very responsible person. Little by little, Julia had gone from admiring him to veneration and from veneration to love.
Love between stepbrothers
- Best of all, Julia’s love was reciprocated. She had found out one night when she and Afonso were home alone. Her parents had gone out to dinner, so they took the opportunity to spend that little time together. They talked for a long time as always, with that complicity and chemistry that characterized them, and then they decided to play a game on the video console. There was a game that Julia was very good at and Alfonso never managed to win it. They always had a great time competing and biting each other: “What do you give me if I win?” Julia told Afonso, challenging him. “Well, you win first and then you find out,” she answered with a mischievous smile.
- As always, Julia won the game. “Good that? Can you give me my prize yet?” she asked. Alfonso turned off the console, slowly approached Julia, took her by the waist and kissed her. Her lips brushed intensely, with desire, with desire and immediately they were carried away by passion.
- The scene was repeated for the following days. Their meetings began to be more and more frequent, they took advantage of the slightest opportunity to let themselves be carried away by their feelings. This is how Julia and Alfonso began their clandestine love for her, a secret love that only he and she shared. A forbidden love between stepbrothers.
Fighting for the impossible
- They both knew that theirs was impossible, that no one would understand it, much less accept it. They always had to meet secretly because if someone found out they would have to end their relationship and stop seeing each other forever. Julia was tired of not being able to openly show her love for Afonso, of not being able to make plans with him like normal couples: going to the movies, going for a walk holding hands, going to eat together… The situation was tiring and Julia was determined to talk to Alfonso to end what they had. They could never live a real love and the best thing was to cut their losses before either of them suffered. However, Alfonso went ahead: “Julia, your mother and my father are going to separate. They had a big argument yesterday and my father wants to move away. He can’t take your mother’s strong character anymore. I have told my father that I am in love with you, that I love you. He has understood, above all he wants me to be happy and I will only be able to be if I am by your side. Come live with us, please, ”he begged.
- Those words made Julia’s world change suddenly, things were going well for once in her life. Julia, who was not used to anyone fighting for her, had the love of her life in front of her asking her to start a life together. And that was not all. Her stepbrother was going to stop being one, that family bond would no longer exist and now they could start a love without barriers or impediments. A love that, indeed, knows no limits.