Captured By My Son in Law

in bed for three d

not only refused to let him touch me but

isen to power, he seemed to be taking reveng

.

as a live-in

ut during a class reunion, Julian took adv

spread lik

f to him, but on the condition that he wou

his ex-wife. Ever since his father

ghter my parents cherished. Having him as our live-in

we got

py-I liked his

in every possible way. At night, I forced him to sl

ridiculed him, humiliated him,

umbrella on a rainy day ou

eel at ease without

r how my family and I mistreated and humiliated him, he neve

too introverted, always ranking at the bottom academically, repeatin

s different. He was bright, handsome, and

th his younger brother was cut short bec

of bed and kicked him awake

tely and went to

ng it was autumn, he ev

me that night, a surge of anger boiled within me. I raised

angry-he simply walked in

e of guilt. But as soon as I recalled how he ha

d and humiliated h

ge-like my family going bankrupt, like me developing fe

vorce papers, he said hi

ached as if a giant hand had gri

ldn't allow me to show a hint of sorrow in front of h

cool voice sounded beside me, "Do y

or a moment bef

lived for over twenty years no

bankrupt. Everythin

law we all looked down upon-had, unbeknownst to us, built his ow

th because he had built everything himself through patience an

quietly, wit

l the ways I had mistreated him, an

fallen and he had risen-he should have sought r

remained just as

No need. I can go

tered, I r

wed behind me. "Did you com

t looking back, runnin

tside, and I clenched t

third weddin

w that I realized my feelings for him, I ha

awaited me was a

ly, letting the downpou

, curled up under the bl

noises and com

father sitting on a peeling old wall,

undown apartment complex-

ically, saying if my father

sole my father. "It's just bankruptcy. As

y fixed me with a piercing

an for help. He's our son-in-la

ough we weren't good to him before, he'll

a bitte

know that he had a

father threatene

choice, I f

t of our money to dress me up-a deep

one to do my makeup

in the mirror, I let out

to beg for help-I looked like

in front of him now, he proba

d-why did he sleep with me

d mistook me fo

ded to go through the motions, just to pr

t his company and he

downstairs, hopi

ions, I didn't know what to

people shot me strange looks, whi

traightened my ba

confidence crumbled, and my

exuding an air of nob