Family Secrets Novel Novels & Stories

"Cassidy, don't you dare lose it. I'm not about to suffer with you like Nate did." "So from beginning to end, it was never about love. It was just my money. You were willing to fake everything to deceive me?" Her eyes had gone dead. "I don't know what you're talking about." Stanley's eyes flickered, avoiding hers. And then, right in front of her, he killed his own son. That moment broke something in Cassidy. With a scream, she lunged at him. "Stanley! I'll kill you!" Their wedding dissolved into chaos, the two of them tearing into each other, driven mad. They stabbed each other—blood spilled everywhere.

But just as she was settling into a particularly vindictive scheme, her phone buzzed on the desk, interrupting her thoughts. Curious, she glanced at the screen. A news alert flashed before her eyes: **"Shocking Revelations: The Scott Family's Dark Secrets Exposed!"** Her heart raced as she clicked on the link, her stomach sinking as she read the headline. The article detailed an explosive exposé revealing her parents’ involvement in the murder of Aria’s biological mother, the takeover of properties, and the deceptive adoption of Aria.

Anything. Her fingers grasped a small, forgotten journal. She threw it across the room, the pages fluttering like wounded birds. Moments after she threw it, a forgotten memory resurfaced, and her head snapped to where the book landed–just in front of the door. She rushed to pick it up as a fresh wave of memories crashed down upon her. Her fingers slowly grazed over the cover, nostalgia settling in. A small, strained sigh escaped her lips as she tentatively opened the book.

Maverick answered curtly. “How? Was it you who told them?” “No. I kept my promise of never telling anyone about our secret, even to my parents. It was the head of our college that told my grandfather about it, and my grandfather told my parents, then my parents told our relatives.” “What the…” “That’s just how it is. In our family, nobody can keep a secret.” “Fuck!” Ciel exclaimed as he leaned his back on the seat while covering his face with his own palms. A surge of despair started filling him up again.

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I said, my voice unnervingly calm, “look into Serena. The past five years—no, seven. I want all her bank transactions, travel records, and call logs. “Pay special attention to anything connected to Rivershire City. And investigate a man named James Carter. “I want the full report within three days.” … I took Ethan home. When I pushed open the front door, the motion-sensor light in the entryway glowed softly. Our family portrait hung on the wall, the one taken on Ethan’s third birthday. I held him in my arms, and Serena leaned gently against my shoulder. Everything looked perfect. So perfect it made my head ache.

Then I skipped out of the room and disappeared down the hall. That night, I started reading my daddy's favorite incest story. "Why do you hate me, daddy?" And from the very first paragraph, I was hooked. I literally couldn't stop reading. Parts of the story made me cry. Others made me laugh. The relationship between Gracie and her sisters was endearing. But the relationship with her dad... wow, I fully understood what my dad meant about it being a "slow burn". My pussy felt like it had been put on a spit and slowly turned over a fire all night long while I read. I started reading close to eleven and it was nearly four in the morning before I finished the story.

“A lot has happened this past year Maliyah.” The way he says that with such sadness tells me he is hiding something from me. Did I forget something? I know he found me once, but for some reason I shut him out. I wish he would tell me what happened. “Aspen, will you tell me what is wrong? I know I don’t remember everything and I feel like there is something important that happened that I need to know about.” Before Aspen can answer me my parents, uncle Mark, uncle Gabriel and auntie Katerina show up. Geez, what is this an intervention.

Then he gazed at me. "Because she had a secret," he told me. "One that would have destroyed great people." I shivered. Nicholas's fists clenched. "What kind of secret?" My father paused again before finally answering. "Your mother had uncovered an illicit transaction between some of the greatest families. An exchange of power, money. and lives. She was going to expose them." My legs turned jelly. The world I had thought I lived in was crumbling beneath my feet. I had spent all those years thinking my mother had been taken by fate. But she had been taken by something far, far worse. Murder. Betrayal. And now, someone—a stranger—had chosen to inform me of the truth now.

With our pack only have 4 healers, my parents were very important. My parents found each other in college. Literally sniffed each other out the first day of classes. Graduated college with my oldest sibling in my moms belly. Jaxs dad was Alpha of our pack. His Grandpa was an alpha and so on it went through the generations. His mother was actually an Omega. She has changed alot and definitely doesn't remember her roots unfortunately. Today though, I'm sitting in my last homeroom waiting on Jackson to show up. My long brown super straight hair is covering my face and half my calculus book. My final is tomorrow and I have no willpower left in my entire body to study any longer.