What the Body Keeps Secret

What the Body Keeps Secret

  • WpView
    Reads 4
  • WpVote
    Votes 0
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
WpMetadataReadMatureOngoing<5 mins
WpMetadataNoticeLast published Fri, May 22, 2026
WpInfo
Fiction
Culture and Identity
Social Themes
Abuse and Trauma
Grief and Bereavement
There are things the body does that nobody teaches you about. The way it decides, entirely on its own, that a particular smell means safety. The way it keeps practising a conversation you haven't had yet. The way it files certain people under home even when home was never quite the right word for it. I think I was trying to figure something out. I'm not entirely sure I did. But I wrote it down anyway, which is either very brave or just something people do when they have too much time and not enough sense.wer you don't think about. Some of it is funny. Some of it is strange. Some of it is about love and loss and faith and the odd grace of things you didn't expect to survive. All of it is true, more or less.
All Rights Reserved
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
Illustration

You may also like

  • Knocking On Yesterday's Door
  • Love at fourth sight
  • 𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐀 𝐘𝐀𝐀𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑
  • 𝐓𝐄𝐉𝐎 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭
  • မုဆိုးကြမ်းရဲ့အသည်းညှာ(Complete)
  • Claiming Emilia
  • VANYA: THE LOST SPRING (BOOK 1)
  • The Superstar's Wife
  • Thirty Days Under Her Roof
  • The Sister~They Missed (The Rathore Siblings)

Ryan Navarro traveled eleven hundred miles to the one place he swore he wouldn't go. Gavin left to escape their father's escalating psychological abuse and never came back. No calls. No explanations. Just silence, and a new life Ryan was never invited into. Now Ryan's on his brother's doorstep, bruised, furious, and nowhere else to go, wanting to hate Gavin and needing him anyway. Reconnecting should be simple. It isn't. Because the closer they get, the more the past resurfaces, and Ryan's temper threatens to burn the only second chance he's got. And Gavin is forced to face past mistakes and fears. But as the brothers push through the distance and the old wounds, they start to uncover the truth neither of them expected. They didn't just survive the same man. They became more alike than they ever knew. And their bond grew to depths neither of them knew they both needed. Will their fathers return ruin that bond, or strengthen it? This is a transformation story so you're not going to get perfect characters. In the beginning they are distant and this story is how they both change and grow together again. If you don't like seeing rough ugly characters in the beginning, then watch them change throughout this probably isn't the story for you. *Disclaimer this story does contain emotional, psychological, and physical abuse by a father. MxF relationships and family focused

More details
WpActionLinkContent Guidelines