Antigone Burying Her Brother Novels & Stories

My sister's skin was blackened and hardened, just like necrotic meat that'd gone through twelve sessions of punctures. My sister was subjected to the bed where she told me, "Don't go after Charles. His family's too powerful. Just pretend I never existed." I swallowed all my bitter anger and resentment as I swore to do as she wished. She died three days later—at 5:17 a.m. I was in the corridor, on my knees, and bawling my eyes out. I buried my sister underneath the tree on the hill behind our little town. Gregory asked a carpenter to whip up a coffin on the spot. It was made out of pine and never painted.

I want to believe her. I need to believe her. When I rise again, I feel older. Heavier. Like I’ve lost something I can never get back… my brother. “Lower him,” I command softly. The warriors step forward. Four of them, his closest trainees as we grew up, lift the bier and carry it to the open grave. They set him down carefully, reverently. Some of them are crying. Some can’t even look. When the first handful of earth slips from my fingers and hits the wooden coffin with a dull thud, something inside me shatters completely.

Eight Years Ago – Continued The pack gates opened slowly, too slow, too heavy. Jacob walked at the front, his body covered in blood—some his, most not. Behind him, his warriors followed in silence, carrying the bodies of his sister and the mate. The entire pack gathered, no one spoke, no one moved, grief hung thick in the air. Jacob didn’t look at anyone; he couldn’t. He walked straight to the centre of the clearing where the burial grounds lay. “Prepare them for burial,” he said quietly.

But for now, the girl was hurting. My queen dropped the heart on the stage and walked back to her seat where Stella was holding a towel for her wipe her hand clean. Ronan called for the guards to come clear the prisoner and the body from the stage as my queen cleaned her hands. I instructed my guards to burn the body, leaving nothing for the family to bury, the ultimate disrespect to our fallen. But the boy deserved no respect, and I knew by the nod that his brother gave me when I said it that he did not wish to have his brother's body desecrating his pack's burial grounds.

Louder than the one she felt when the robbers left her in the big house with the lifeless bodies of her mother, father, and brother. “No…” another said, raising a hand. “We can’t do that… She is too young…” “Who cares? She is going to die after all.” This had been a back-and-forth argument, but somehow, the opponent had won, and they threw her into the grave. Buried her until the only thing left was her head. The soil was cold. Heavy. Merciless. Jasmine felt it. The shift in her muscles, the stiffness in her bones. Then tears rolled, traveling freely down her cheeks.

I immediately looked at my brother. "I'll work it out, keep going" Jack whispered in my ear. And at five in the afternoon, we lowered our sisters' coffins, with oaths of revenge on their tombstones. The Rinna, mourning our loss, allowed Bianca to be buried beside Beatrice. All the capos paying their respects, leaving their fake feelings in a row, until the De Angelis held in our hands the brothers watching every reaction in our eyes and she appeared there, in a simple black dress with no makeup which only made it more beautiful, Giulia De Angelis made a point of greeting each one of us.

I took both of their hands and linked them together. I sat there looking at my parents, didn't dare to move, and blinked my eyes. Vincent started collecting the dead bodies and putting them in one place, carefully considering their bodies. I just sat there, staring at everything and looking at the dead bodies of my pack members. I didn't remember sleeping, but I woke up on a sofa in the pack hall, I looked at the surroundings, and the dead bodies were gone. Only the blood stain remained. I went outside and heard someone digging the ground, and there I saw my brother burying the dead bodies of my pack members. I walked towards him slowly, without energy, until I noticed two graves close toget

Do you want him to be resurrected or not? "I know, but my brother was an outcast before he killed himself; he was linked to killing a few other kids, so he was buried in a cemented and cloaked tomb, and I can't get him out unless my mother does, so my only priority right now is my mother." "All right, I understand; I'm not judging; let's get moving; we'll use my car, and I hope you're okay with that." "Of course, I don't mind; I'll give you the address once we're on the road; it's not far from here, just a few miles away, on our way."

I had to avenge his death instead. One of the guards stepped towards me, and informed me that the burial was up and ready. I got up from my chair with a limp, and walked with my guard to the place. We were all in black, so it was befitting. I hadn’t bothered to call anyone. It was not a death that was worth celebrating. It was a shame. A dog’s death. We mentioned a form of silence, and then the men took the head from the bag with the blood, and put it in the earth that they dug. I took some sand and poured it on the dead.

Smiling. My younger sister, Amy Foster, stood at the center of it all—no longer the girl who once hid behind me but now poised as the officiant. She wore a sleek, modern dress, her gaze fixed on Benjamin with something like reverence. She had forgotten. Forgotten how the two of us, brother and sister, had nearly been broken in that "boarding school" Benjamin’s mother sent us to—the one that promised to "correct" troubled teens. And yet there she was, beaming, raising her glass. "To my brother and his beautiful bride—may your love last a lifetime!"