re: Family Secrets

I never knew my mother. She died giving birth to me. The story everyone was told was that my father had me out of wedlock when he was at war, but my step-mother (his wife) wanted nothing to do with me. I got along great with my step siblings, as they treated me like a true brother.

When I became an adult, my best friend who is big into ancestry found out that the man I called my father was actually my uncle. His sister died after giving birth to me and made him promise to protect me. Apparently, there was some powerful man that had a vendetta against my biological father, and they were afraid that man would try to kill me. So my uncle raised me in secret as his bastard son. Even his wife didn’t know.