Taboo

Amelia His lips were a hungry fire against the wild thump of my heart. We were very young and he was the son of my father's housekeeper, but we didn't care. >Then my father calls us to his library and breaks the news. The one thing we never saw coming. >Devastated and furious, Max storms away from the library never to return. Years pass, and somehow, I muddle along and become a children's book illustrator, but the joy of life has been sucked out of me forever. I dress in drab clothes, never wear make-up, or go out much. I guess I fit the bill to be a spinster for life. Until the day my father makes a shocking confession on his deathbed. He had lied. >I know Max will come for the funeral, but Max is now rich and famous... and he is married with a son. Do I still tell him my secret?