Not A Happy Family Novels & Stories

“Because the timing matters. There are things in motion that depend on the timing and if that timing is disrupted, people get hurt who don’t deserve to be.” He looked at me for a long moment. “People in this house?” “Some of them,” I said. Something moved through his face. Slow and complicated, moving through several things before it settled. “And me?” he said quietly. “Am I one of the people who gets hurt?” I thought about that. The honest answer was that I didn’t know. The kind of disruption that was coming for this family was not surgical. It would not spare people based on their individual culpability. Adrian had never been cruel to me in the way his father had been cruel. He had been co

I also just noticed that his friends don't seem to have any plans of getting married; they're all focused on their work. ​My family from Romania gathered at a table, along with Mom and Dad. Everyone there is happy and telling stories, even Tita Valencia, who really hates my Mom, is there crying and laughing. I hope she's already good now. It's just hard when there are fights and jealousy in a family; it's not healthy, and it only destroys a family.

"Aunty, why do I have this feeling that none of my family is truly delighted to share in my happiness?" His words hang in the air, and the room falls momentarily silent. Dominic's uncle and aunt exchange looks, their expressions revealing a truth he had suspected. From their non-verbal cues, it becomes clear that his perception aligns with reality - that not everyone in the family has embraced his engagement with enthusiasm. The realization weighs heavily on Dominic's heart, as he had hoped for a more joyous and supportive response from his loved ones. The exchange serves as a pivotal moment, forcing the family to confront the underlying emotions and tensions present within their relationshi

The two family’s had always been close. Bailey Everleigh never thought too much about it until the summer that everything changed. She had been raised with her own family, and theirs was always nearby as well. They did almost everything together. She had always thought it was because both were large families. They understood the way things were done in them that people who didn’t have eight-plus kids could never.

This can’t be him. This can’t be the end. We were happy…we…were…finally—-gonna be a family.

"What happened this morning ends there. Nico does not leave the elite track because you say so. And whatever you said at the office, I'm treating it as anger." "It wasn't anger." He laughed once. "You're not leaving, Serena." He said it like he already knew. Like four years of waiting had proven it. "You won't walk away," he said. "And you won't cut Nico off from this family." I sealed the last envelope and set it aside. "You can test that." He studied my face, then went upstairs. Claire came the next afternoon. I was in the living room setting up a small birthday dinner for Nico. He had barely spoken since the fire, and I did not want a crowd. Just cake, a few children, and one quiet evenin

Emma, the fake heiress, and I were sold into an underground BDSM club. When my parents, the richest couple in the country, and my husband, Leo DeLuca, the feared Don of the DeLuca crime family, finally found us, I was bound with duct tape and covered in wounds. Emma lay beside me, heavily pregnant and unconscious. Three months later, doctors confirmed that her baby had died in the womb. She was the adopted daughter my parents had cherished for twenty years, and the girl my husband had never gotten over. My parents and husband went half mad, offering a nationwide one-hundred-million-dollar bounty for any lead on the person responsible. I was the only one who might have seen the culprit's face

It was a bored expression as if he was not convinced with what was happening in the movie. Their family… was not a normal family. They were both aware of that. Unlike many other families, they were only related by blood. Family members do not share affection towards each other, especially the siblings. His grandfather was not close to his father’s uncle. His father did not like his uncle as well. He knew that having a sibling was not fun so he was relieved that he did not have any. At least his father had no plans of giving him a younger sibling so he did not have to be hostile to someone younger than him.

Kalina's POV I… Have a very happy family. My father has a good job, my mother loves me very much, and I have a younger sister who is two years younger than me, who works very hard and often does housework for me. I must feel that life is very happy. However, sadly, I don't feel happy. I am the eldest child in the family, the person everyone cares about the most, but all I see is suffering. Strange, where have all my happy cells gone?

What a happy family they seem. I just hate the fact that he is happy with his new family but forgot the person he owes his life to. And that is just unacceptable.