It Runs In The Family Book Novels & Stories

“What are you talking about? I thought you just had one brother? And you mentioned to me that Augustine was somewhat adopted into your family.” “I do. In my immediate family. But then there are the cousins and the cousin’s cousins and the aunts and uncles and the people who aren’t blood but still family involved, plus we all live together in like a family house, or estate or something like that so there will be a whole other family with their family’s family and so on. And if they are anything like me.. you know how Tasha says it, ‘arrogant’ then it’s going to be a hell of a ride... it’s just…I don’t want them to scare you away.”

"I hope one day you can heal from the experience with the doctor. But for now, I can right my wrongs, and tell you about our shared inheritance. I have a book I want to show you." Lucy and Gertrude glanced at the book on the patio table. "It's an old family heirloom, with names of every single nymph child that graced the Eudora family over the years. It has drawings, pictures, pieces of research… almost like a nymph field guide for beginners." "You want me to read this?" Lucy asked, shock coloring her voice.

~Lily~ I knew something was wrong the second Jace texted me Thursday night. “Hey babe, big news. My family wants you on the run tomorrow. Couples thing to celebrate my patch. My friends orders. You in?” My stomach dropped straight through the floor. Run. Couples thing. Family of brothers orders. Bullshit. They never let outsiders on runs. Ever. Old ladies stayed home unless it was a family picnic. And that guy suddenly wanting me there? After I’d already grabbed audio gold and slipped out at dawn last lockdown?

"We can never let Gina have the baby. I don't care if it kills her!" Mom, on the other hand, looked confident. "Relax. The doctor already told me that Gina's got leukemia from all the formaldehyde in our new house. Even the baby's deformed! It's not surviving. "Martha and Michael can finally rest assured this time. All the money we'd spent renovating this house with the crazy high formaldehyde levels wasn't wasted after all." It was only then that a cruel realization crushed me. No one, including my parents, wanted me to keep the baby. In fact, they all wanted it dead.

"A good wife brings prosperity to generations. A wicked one ruins an entire family. Choose wisely." As the night deepened, the family gathered to keep vigil beside the caskets. Kelly, unwelcome among them, shrank into a corner, her presence tolerated but barely acknowledged. I found her there later. "Zarrick's finished," I told her softly. "And when I leave him, I'll make sure he walks away with nothing. If you're willing to stay with him then, when he's broke and ruined, then maybe—just maybe—I'll believe your love is real."

We were just a product of wrong parenting, society's misfits. I sighed for the hundredth time that night. Ahead of us, I saw the three monsters talking to an elderly couple while taking measured looks in my direction. My heart clenched, I knew the old woman. She was part of the first family, Lucian was indeed right. My family was selling me as a bartering chip to gain more power and influence. Being friends with the Zorya and gaining the trust of the first family. My family is becoming more monstrous than they were already are.

He frowned when he touched the book, because it felt like it had just been pulled from the shelf, dry and cool, no trace of it has touched his sweaty skin. Odd. Thought Lucas. But he didn’t have time to dwell on it. What information the book had and why it suddenly showed up were more important, like there was a force to draw him to the book. Lucas shrugged the odd thing, he opened the book and started to read it. The first page was telling him a history of a family named Cotts. The next chapter told him about they ancestors. Lots of steps on the ground bellow distracted Lucas from his book. He heard it was getting closer and closer. Then a light whipping sounded, startling him. Sitting stra

"The Royalties of the Ego bloodline, the history of the '1st Empire of Ego kingdom till date' hmm. This seems interesting. Now I can really know what's going on here. I open the book to start reading and immediately, it zaps me like an electric shock. 'What The Hell.' What just happened. I reach for the book once again but it zaps me over and over again till I give up. 'This sure is hopeless. How do I know about this family now.' I felt my nose tickle and at first tried to wiggle my way out, but that didn't work, so I raced to my room to fetch my handkerchief when something warm fell on my hand. It was red, thick and warm.

they said and immediately ran away—these kids never stayed at one place and were extremely fast. I started running after them, and Clinton followed behind, joining the long family line with Kiara leading the way. That’s when I realised I finally had it all—my happy family—and it turned out it was with Jade’s uncle, not Jade. Clinton. My love. ●THE END OF BOOK ONE●

On my twenty-ninth birthday, I was supposed to be formally announced as the next head of the Ashford family. But before the charity gala began, my mother fed my succession speech into the shredder and replaced it with a written pledge to my sister. "Lydia hasn't had an easy time since the wedding. Announce in public that you're giving her the Harbor Hotel. Think of it as backing her up." It was the first property my grandmother had left me, and the only project I had been allowed to run on my own in eight years. I asked my mother, "And if I'm not willing?" My father looked at me coldly. "Don't forget, you'll inherit all of Ashford one day. She only has us." They had always used the inh