A Family Torn Apart Novels & Stories

It provided scholarships to underprivileged students, ensuring my name lived on through helping others. Meanwhile, my family members fell into irredeemable ruin. Dad suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side, leaving him unable to care for himself. Mom's hair turned white overnight. She had to care for Dad while enduring the neighbors' whispers and condemnation. They sold the family home and moved to a run-down apartment complex. Once respected members of the community, they became pitiful outcasts struggling to survive. Leon lost his job as well. No company would hire a man suspected of murdering his wife. Since he couldn't find a steady job, he had to rely on odd jobs to make e

Even in front of him, they can’t keep their façade and act. Yan, who yearned for his parents to reconcile and they become a happy family of three, his dream shattered and his hopes were ruthlessly crushed after he realized that his parents can never become happy together. Worse, they got divorced later. Yan’s dream of a family flew away and disappeared, especially when both of his parents created their own family together.

she spat at him. Triple J groaned, stood up from the dining next and walked away, leaving the father and stubborn daughter staring at each other. After a few minutes of stare down, Rebecca stood up and walked away as well, leaving the middle aged man to his thoughts. She was glad that she let out every thought in her mind, maybe not all but enough to ease her of the burden. Mr. James Queen was saddened by the whole scene, he couldn’t believe how his entire family had broken apart completely in less than one year, and it would be a lie if he said he had no hand in it. But what can he do to fix things? To be continued!!

My parents made me submit a written request to the family accountant for any expense over five dollars. They said it would keep me from becoming vain. On the day of the car accident, I sat in the ER, struggling to stay still through the pain. I charged $200 for emergency treatment to the card linked to my father's account. The bandage was barely on when my parents called to tear into me. "Who said you could steal from this family? The Bennett family has rules, and they do not include feeding parasites who bleed us dry!" They froze every card I had on the spot. The hospital discharged me because I couldn't pay for further observation. So I walked. More than ten miles back to the Bennett estat

Always steady. “The Greysons, Andersons, Matthews, Gibson, and Raize families—please make your way to the sides of the room.” Eighteen people stand and begin to move. “Now I am going to ask all single parents to also make their way to the sides.” Ever so slowly, more people rise. Hesitation. Grief. So many of them lost their mates. My heart breaks at the sight. Our pack was torn down. Broken. But not for long. What is broken can be splinted.

MARIO's POV (2brother) Our kitten has went through so much, i feel so guilty that i was never able to protect her, we all were devastated when she left or was kidnapped. Mom used to cry so much, dad went to all ballistic mode, Lorenzo got himself into business, twins went into bad boy mode, Anthony started street racing, Grayson shut himself in his room and did god knows what and i was trying to be sane for everyone but already everyone went into dark mode , Our cousins,grandpa, grandma , uncles, aunts all love Klara a lot, everyone was devastated.

"And you! How dare you manipulate both of my daughters? You’re a disgrace, and you’ll never get away with this!" My father grabbed Ronald by the collar, demanding answers, but Ronald, after everything that had happened, was a hollow shell. His eyes were vacant as he wept, shaking his head. “I’m sorry… I’m so sorry. I failed Alice. I was wrong…” I looked down at my soul, noticing that the lower half of my body was slowly fading. I knew I didn’t have much time left. The next day, my body was cremated. My entire family showed up at the funeral. It was the first time they had all gathered for me, but ironically, it was only in death.

It was a reckoning—years of hatred and humiliation packed into every word. “Get out! Get out of my sight!” Rachel screamed. She couldn’t bear to look at Taylor’s youthful face or Caitlin’s cold composure. “I’ll go,” Taylor said coolly, “but before I do—you should know The Yuncey Family has been split.” “What? What do you mean, ‘split’?!” Rachel looked horrified. “Who approved that?!” Taylor didn’t answer. Caitlin stepped in.

"We're all just—we're in over our heads here. Lake needs professional help. Ollie needs professional help. Troy and Rhodes need couple's therapy and probably individual therapy too. This family is falling apart." "We're not falling apart," I said, but it sounded hollow even to my own ears. "Aren't we?" Rafael asked. "In the span of twenty-four hours, we've had Troy run away to get an illegal abortion, Lake and Ollie both experience complete psychological breaks, and the rest of us running around trying to hold everything together with duct tape and prayer. That's not a functional family, Ramon. That's a family in crisis."

Both of them pale, terrified, but there. "You came back," Chaewon whispered. "Of course we did," Jian said. "We're family. We don't abandon family." Iris looked at them. At the reunion. At the love she'd tried to destroy but only made stronger. "No," she breathed. "This isn't—you were supposed to stay broken. Stay separate. I destroyed you." "You tried," Chaewon said, standing. "But family isn't something you can destroy from outside. Only from inside. And we chose not to let you."