Illicit Affair
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(Complete) When Agnes Miles, at last, returns to her childhood house after eighteen years of exile_ she finds herself face to face with a stranger, who they told her, was her older brother, Augustus Miles.
Agnes tries to understand their relationship now, tries to perceive his eyes better, to seek how much he remembered her and how much he loved her now.
But there are encumbrances and borders hindering their kinship.
There are new and old things.
A shared loss. An inseparable bond.
Their Affections for each other was still their, but was wrong at so many levels.
And yet, it was there. Present. Subtle. And so obvious that it was invisible.
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