I Gave Up My Life To My Brother Novels & Stories

“After you disappeared from my life and Mom died, I had no one left. Nothing but this festering, blistering rage.” I can’t even begin to comprehend the extent to which I have harmed my own brother. I want to fix it, but I know there are no words that will resolve fourteen years of unexplained and undeserved abandonment. I pick up a small stone, chucking it into the lake and causing ripples that extend beyond what we can see on the other side of the willow’s branches swimming in the water. “I need help getting a message about Father’s counteroffer to the Sun Warriors,” I say. “Is that a task you would be up to assisting me with?”

(Eleven years ago) Grayson I put a bullet through my brother's head and watch the life bleed out of his eyes. I wait, just to be sure he's not getting back up. Sixteen years old, and I've already learned not to take chances. Not to miss—even an inch. That was the last Reaper who betrayed us. The last snake in the clubhouse pretending to wear the same patch as me. Everyone else is gone. All that's left is my father.

I still have my family and I still have my life to go on. I have bodyguards that accompany me wherever I go. I have Bryan that I can call a brother and a friend. I have Craig, my partner, my assistant and a bestfriend. Mom and I have started a new relationship as a mother and daughter again, and of course, my baby brother who doesn't want me to call him a 'baby'. Even though according to everyone's opinion, it was cowardly to give up and quit easily, but for me and for all the people who truly understand me, they know it's not.

Since then, I worked hard to be like a mature adult so that they would not have to worry about me. In the end, what they said that day was just lies to fool kids. Yet, I actually believed it. It felt so absurd now that I thought about it. After seeing how my brothers desperately wanted to get closer to me, I turned around and flew upward without the slightest hint of hesitation. "My dear brothers, I'm no longer your sister! In our next life… No! Let's not meet each other ever again!"

He stared at it for a heartbeat… then hooked his around mine. “Pinky promise,” he murmured. - When I finally stepped out of the car and walked toward the apartment, Denver’s car was already there, parked as it belonged. Frederick didn’t get out. He just gave me a small nod through the window. He’d said earlier he’d deal with Denver later. Let him sit in the guilt a little longer. As I got closer, my brother’s voice exploded through the night, sharp, furious. “You'd better fix the mess you made in your own child’s life, Denver! Or I swear, I’ll drag you to court for abandonment so fast your head will spin!”

"You learn to turn a blind eye and protect your home. You crossed a line. Go back to your house, write a formal apology to my son, and stop causing a scene. Goodbye, Melanie." My world has completely collapsed. My husband treats me like garbage, my mother throws me to the wolves, my mother-in-law sees me as an accessory, and my friend is a traitor. I have no money, no home, no daughter, and no one in the world who cares if I live or die. My thumb slides down my contact list, scrolling past dozens of high-society names that mean nothing. And then, my eyes land on one name. Alexander. My hand shakes so badly. I tap his name.

he growled at me and I laughed sadly. "After this, I would never expect to find something or someone in life anymore" I whispered and new tears began falling from my eyes. "So you are giving up?" he asked and I smiled, shaking my head. "No, I am not giving up on life because giving up is not worth it besides I have my brother and best friend to turn to so I would not give up on life. I have just decided to stop expecting things in life because it's very simple, you don't expect anything, you won't get hurt so I am saving myself from the trouble of getting hurt" I said continuing to smile, but that didn't stop my tears from falling from my eyes.

I look over at my disheartened brother; his upper lip stiffening as he tries to hold back on the tears trying to well in the corner of his glassing eyes, “Out of all of us, you were the one who’s always believed in this mate stuff. Why give up on it now?” He throws his arms into the air with frustration; his face crumpling as he blurts, “I don’t know. I just thought that after everything I went through, life was too short to wait around any more. I couldn’t sit back and hope the impossible would happen. I mean, she was always there for me. Always, you know? And I just threw it away like it was nothing,” his voice wavers as he lets his emotions get the better of him, “-Eh, I don’t know what I

I knew this meant Katrina was not on The Otherside, and I felt for my brother. A flashback of his Human life came into my mind and it was completely uncalled for. I pushed it away. Yes, I knew he had endured a worse pain in his past, lost his wife to cancer, his first and only love. My shy, timid, Human brother. He didn’t know any of this, and I would never reveal it. It was my burden to bear for him, for all of them.

"I'm your older brother Vinnie." My jaw clenched. The pain in my chest intensified with every breath I took "My brother died three years ago. He died the day he decided to abandon his family." "I believe you when you say that you left to protect us. I'll do what you said and I won't tell our parents that you're alive if it's going to put their lives at risk. But don't expect me to forgive you for what you've done. You can't make up for what you've put me through."