He Begged Me to Disobey

"He Begged Me to Disobey" is a serial novel published on SkyStory. 1 chapters in total. When my sister, Irene, graduated and took a staff nursing jo…

SkyStory 1 chapters English 07 Sep 2026

When my sister, Irene, graduated and took a staff nursing job at the county hospital, she was pulling in nearly nine thousand dollars a month. The first thing she did was drop seven hundred dollars on a top-of-the-line iPad for my schoolwork. When my father saw the box on the kitchen counter, his face turned the color of bruised meat. "What the hell are you throwing money at him for? You think cash grows on trees, wasting it on dead weight?" In his mind, I was an afterthought—a boy who would eventually drift off, contribute nothing to his legacy, and wasn't worth a single red cent. To punish us, he made me sit at the kitchen table and stare at that glowing screen for twenty hours straight. By midnight, my retinas burned like they’d been scrubbed with wire wool, and tears were leaking down my cheeks. Irene finally couldn't take it anymore; she sobbed, snatched the tablet away, and locked it in her closet. Dad leaned back in his recliner, wearing a grin that made my stomach turn. "Let’s see if she wastes another dime on you." Not long after, Irene met someone. Her first love. The kind of raw, transparent affection that radiates off a person in waves. He was everything a father should have wanted for his daughter, but Dad hated him on sight. He threw tantrums, threatened to swallow weed killer, put a noose over the garage rafter—anything to rip them apart. The evening they finally broke up, Dad cooked an absolute feast: braised ribs, fried chicken, mashed potatoes swimming in butter. "Cheer up, baby girl!" Dad boomed, piling food onto her plate. "That slick little leech wasn't fit to tie your shoes anyway. Your old man will find you someone ten times better!" Irene didn't scream. She didn't overturn the table. She just looked at him, her lips curving into a mild, perfectly hollow smile. "Don't bother, Dad," she said softly. "I'm staying right here. I don't need anyone else. I only need you." Dad beamed so hard his crow's-feet deepened into trenches. For months,

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