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Truth About Brother Interrupted

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After rescuing my mother, the days ahead of me were odd, filled with a sort of oddness that resurfaces when reconciled with someone who you had thought to have died.

Each day, I spent in the hospital with mother, with Merald at my side, trying to make sense of the fragments of a family that had been shattered by lies and secrets.

She looked at me, and though the years had taken their toll and had aged her and made her thinner, she still had the same eyes.

I saw the remorse and the sorr
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  • THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE   The Letter

    The days after my panic attack were the most fragile of my life, fragile like glass, like I might shatter at any moment if someone touched me too roughly or said the wrong thing. I moved through them carefully, afraid of breaking, afraid of falling apart, afraid of losing the progress I had made after so many years of fighting. Merald kept his distance, not because he was angry or frustrated or disappointed in me, but because he was giving me space, respecting my need to breathe, to think, to figure out what I wanted without his presence clouding my judgment or swaying my decision."The mail came," Sarah said one morning, handing me an envelope, her eyes soft with concern.I looked at it, at the familiar handwriting I would recognize anywhere, at the return address I knew by heart even though I hadn't seen it in years. "It's from Merald. His handwriting.""Are you going to open it? Or do you want me to read it first?""I don't know. I'm afraid of what's inside. I'm afraid of wha

  • THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE   The Panic

    The days after the kiss were the hardest I had faced in years, harder than the divorce, than the war, than any moment I had survived, because I had let myself feel something, hope, believe that maybe, just maybe, I could let him in again after keeping him at arm's length for so long. But the hope was terrifying, the hope was dangerous, the hope was a reminder of how much I had to lose if things fell apart again. I found myself pulling away, retreating behind the walls I had spent years building around my heart, walls that had kept me safe but had also kept me alone."You're quiet," Merald said, watching me from across the room, his eyes filled with concern."I'm thinking. Trying to sort through everything in my head.""About what? About us?""About whether I can really do this. About whether I'm capable of letting you in."He walked toward me, his steps slow and hesitant, and I could see the fear in his eyes, the fear that I was going to push him away again, the fear that we woul

  • THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE   The Kiss

    The days after our dinner were strange and tender, the kind of tender that comes when you've finally admitted that you want to try, when you've stopped pretending that you don't care, when you've let down your guard just enough to let someone in. Merald didn't push, didn't pressure, didn't try to rush me into something I wasn't ready for. He just kept showing up, day after day, patient and steady and present, and that showing up was its own kind of love, its own kind of promise, its own kind of apology for all the years he had been absent."You're staring again," he said, catching me looking at him across the living room."I'm trying to figure you out. I'm trying to understand how you've changed so much.""Maybe I haven't changed. Maybe I've just become who I was always meant to be.""Who's that?""Someone who deserves you. Someone who's worthy of your love."I felt my heart skip a beat, felt the old feelings stirring, felt the walls I had built starting to crumble. "You're get

  • THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE   One Dinner

    The dinner was Merald's idea, a chance for us to talk without distractions, without Gina's toys scattered across the floor or the television blaring in the background or the weight of the past pressing down on our shoulders like a mountain we couldn't climb. He had made a reservation at a quiet restaurant on the other side of the city, a place neither of us had been before, a place where no one knew our names or our history or the war we had survived together, a place where we could just be two people instead of two survivors."Just one dinner," he said, when he asked me, his voice soft, almost hesitant, like he was afraid I would say no. "No strings attached. Just the two of us. No talk about the past, no talk about the war, no talk about anything except us."I wanted to say no, wanted to find an excuse, wanted to hide behind the busyness of life and the demands of work and the needs of our daughter. I wanted to protect myself from the possibility of hope, from the possibility of d

  • THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE   The Answer

    The question came on a Tuesday, a quiet evening when the world felt still and Gina was asleep in her room and Merald. I were sitting on the couch together, not talking, just being. The question had been building for weeks, maybe months, hanging in the air between us like a storm waiting to break. I knew it was coming before he even opened his mouth, could see it in the way he looked at me, in the way his hands trembled, in the way he took a deep breath before he spoke."Debbie," he said, his voice soft, almost hesitant."What?""I've been thinking. About us. About the future.""What about it?""I want to ask you something. Something I've been wanting to ask for a long time."I felt my heart pounding in my chest, felt the fear crawling up my spine, felt the walls I had built starting to crumble. "Then ask."He reached for my hand, his fingers warm and steady around mine. "Will you marry me? Again?"I stared at him, at the man who had broken my heart and put it back together mo

  • THE DIVORCE AND HIS BETRAYAL, MY REVENGE   The Question

    The fifth year after the war was different from the ones before, settled in a way that felt almost comfortable, almost safe. I spent most of it watching Gina grow into a little girl with her father's smile and my stubbornness, a fierce, beautiful child who had no idea about the darkness that had preceded her birth, no idea about the blood and the tears and the pain that had brought her into this world. Merald was there every day, steady and present, and I had stopped waiting for him to leave, stopped waiting for the other shoe to drop, stopped waiting for him to become the man he used to be before everything fell apart.But there was still a question hanging between us, unasked and unanswered, a question that grew heavier with each passing month, each passing year, each passing moment of silence."We need to talk," Merald said one evening, after Gina had gone to sleep, the house finally quiet after a long day of toddler chaos and laughter.I looked up from the book I was readin

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