Ten Years, My Brother's Return

After Joanne got pregnant, my brother vanished during a mountain climbing expedition in the Rockies. To give her child a legitimate name and a way into the Holloway family, she married me instead. I treated my brother's child as my own, protecting and caring for them both with everything I had.

But a decade of marriage couldn't compare to the man she truly loved. My wife remained cold and distant, and even the boy showed me no respect. "You are just his stepfather," she told me once. "My son an