Siblings By Chance Lovers By Choice Novels & Stories

his brother Winston chimed in, “-Chance would have murdered the woman and we’d have to bail him out of jail.” A choked laugh escaped me. Okay, maybe I liked these guys. “Lilly’s one of strongest women I know,” Chance announced, taking the seat next to me and looping his arm over mine. “Do you have a sister?” Winston teased. “We might need someone to set Byron straight.” I chuckled, “No. I’m an only child.” “That must have been lonely,” Byron commented. “This coming from a man that has four brothers and two sisters. Granted, the one brother and one sister didn’t grow up with us.”

──────⊰·☆·⊱────── The impression was so weird, that without saying that she had accepted his uncle's proposal to go to study at a business school in Miami, she left without saying anything that same morning. But that was not all, because she was the protagonist of another surreal scene. The weekend, when she arrived home for a visit after months. She found his mother pregnant, and that his parents had remarried. When she confronted her uncle, with whom she kept in touch, but he worked on oil rigs in the middle of nowhere. He told her that he had been as surprised as she was, but that love had very strange ways of manifesting itself.

“Where do I come into all of this, why are you telling me all of this?” “I thought you would love to know the kind of man you're dating and I love a good chat. Listen. My brothers and I have lived in wealth and without aging, hoping to find this girl and put an end to her before she ends us but we never found her till she was finally born in this century. Do you know who that girl is?” I shake my head. I suddenly don't like the direction this conversation is heading as my heart suddenly drums loudly. “She's said to bear the birthmark of a moon at the back of her neck. Ring a bell?”

“Get used to it. We’re full of surprises.” --- Despite the support from our small circle, the backlash from our families was relentless. My mother and sister, Elena, were the first to voice their disapproval. “I just don’t understand,” Elena said during one of our heated phone calls. “Why would you choose this life when you know how much it’ll hurt our family?” “I’m not choosing anything, Elena,” I snapped. “This is who I am. And if you can’t accept that, then maybe you don’t know me as well as you think.”

In that house, love was not measured by blood. Not calculated by inheritance. Love was measured only by who chose to stay—every day, without hesitation. And James chose. Emma chose. Ethan and Emily grew within that choice. Not as rivals. But as two hearts equally loved. Forever. The End.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $200,000 in damages. I read the verdict with deep satisfaction. By then, the video no longer mattered. Everyone made mistakes when caught up in a moment of passion. I had simply chosen the wrong person. Later, when my mother urged me to find a boyfriend again, I agreed without hesitation. Unexpectedly, I fell for a sweet, younger guy I met randomly on the street. With big, blinking eyes, he followed me right into the city hall. Watching him bustling around the kitchen, I realized how wonderful it was to live a simple, ordinary life.

“You know, Mr. Thief, if I were given the chance to choose someone to talk to, I would choose myself. I would rather talk to myself than to an arrogant person like you!” He just shrugged his shoulders, and I was stunned when he sat down next to me. I pushed him away, but I was surprised when he suddenly became serious and asked me a sensible question. “Why don’t you try to convince your parents to not push their plan?” after hearing his question, I quickly turned all my attention to him. I let out a deep sigh before I answered him with another question. “Hmm. You think I haven’t tried to convince my dad?” He shrugged again. “Hmm… What if, you ask your boyfriend to marry you so that we don’t

"Do you think I would have fallen in love with you had I had any choice in the matter? Would you have fallen in love with me if you had a choice? Be honest, Samar, because the answer is a big fat no." He wanted to argue the point, even opened his mouth, but couldn't. "Unlike you chose Jayant to be your friend and I chose Archie to be mine, we didn't choose to love each other. Rather, love chose us. How many people can say that they met their soulmate at the age of eight? I can. And I am so glad about it. So early in life, when we needed each other, destiny made sure we had each other. And you are demeaning something so sublime, so beautiful that people out there will give away their limbs to

(A CHANCE FOR LOVE) AURORA AURORA The loss can only be understood by those who have loved. Well, at least that's how it feels to sleep in the guest room my sister chose.in the house that was once mine. When I met Henrico years ago, my heart was broken, the man I loved had just sailed to another continent and to get revenge I married another. Unfortunately, acted on impulsiveness and I chose the wrong man, or better said, I chose so right that the formula could only result in the biggest mistake of all, I fell in love with my husband. Not enough to forget Pedro and our past,but strong enough to dream of a future.

Austen asks opening the door to greet me. “Thank you and yes I would like my best friend.” “Did Kingston ask you yet?” “Yeah last night although I’m kind of sad I didn’t get a box too.” “Oh well, guess you don’t have the better best-friend.” That’s something we all fight over who has the better best-friendship, which duo is better. The sisters by love or brothers by choice. We don’t know. There will never to be a correct answer. Because really we are just a lucky bunch of people to be surrounded by amazing company that we get to share, live and love with.