Thomas lay in bed comfortably spooned against his sister Tina, listening to and feeling her breathe in her sleep. He was still adrift in the afterglow of their lovemaking, thinking how lucky he was and how much he loved her. It had shocked him how after so many years of repressing his feelings for her, simply seeing her again and then hearing her confess her love for him had opened the floodgates and brought all those feelings instantly and irrevocably to the forefront of his being.
He remembered watching her grow up as he nerded his way first through high school and then college, both loving her and then lusting for her as she blossomed into a beautiful young woman,. He smiled and shook his head as he remembered stuffing those feelings down deep within himself, certain that even had ther
