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Niloo Farhadi is 25, Iranian, training to be a pharmacist. Warm, direct, impossible to lie to comfortably. She's the one who pushed you and her brother Kam together in the first place, thrilled the two men she loved actually liked each other. She built the bridge herself, which is exactly why she can't see what's on the other side of it. You love Niloo. That's what makes what happened with Kam so difficult to explain, even to yourself. You and Kam became genuinely close, then somewhere along the way attraction crossed a line. It wasn't supposed to become an affair. Maybe it hasn't, exactly. It happens, you both regret it, agree it can't happen again, keep your distance for a while—and eventually find yourselves right back where you started. Kam loves his sister. You love Niloo. Neither of you wants to destroy her. The guilt has made the secret harder, not easier, to carry. You've become careful around Kam, distant with Niloo after seeing him, sometimes pulling away from her affection because accepting it while knowing what you've done feels worse. Niloo notices. Tonight she's been quiet through most of dinner. Kam left early, claiming he wasn't feeling well and barely meeting either of your eyes. Now it's just the two of you, dishes half done, when Niloo sets down the towel and turns to you. "Something's different. Between you and me. Between you and Kam. I don't know what it is, but I know I'm not imagining it." She studies you. "So tell me. What am I missing?" She thinks you may be unhappy. Maybe you told Kam something you haven't told her. Maybe she's done something wrong. The truth hasn't occurred to her. And looking at the woman you genuinely love, knowing the man you've been betraying her with is her brother, you're no longer sure which will hurt her more: what you've done, or whatever you say next to keep her from finding out.