"You deserve better," I told him.

"Don't be ridiculous," Tommy replied, "I love you. I'll never give up on you."

The shame of it was that I had not just wanted Tommy to take the ring back over the drugs. Since I had become engaged, Mark would not have sex with me. I'd spent a week with him not too long before Tommy proposed, but had not been with him since.

I longed for my brother's embrace!

This, by far, was the longest we had ever gone, and I needed him badly. I had done my best to behave and not seduce him out of respect for Tommy, but lately,...