When Family Betrays You Novels & Stories

He told me hurriedly as soon as the call connected. I shot up to my feet while answering him. “I am coming.” I stopped when my parents also stood up. “It will be better if you stay away from my family from now on and let me handle these matters,” I told them over my shoulder. “You….. you can’t do this to us, Arthur,” Mom screamed in agony. “One can overcome an outsider’s betrayal, Mom, but betrayal from the family, especially from your parents, destroys something fundamental in a person, and I am no exception to that,” I replied to her coldly and was about to walk away when my father’s accusation stopped me.

Xander thought otherwise. "You're my family. You, Arya and my nonna are the only family I know. No one else." "I can't believe Antonio finally gave in to his father's demands. I thought you two were like brothers." I said with a long exhale. The facts kept slapping me in the face. He shrugged. "Even brothers betray one another. His father betrayed mine too." "So what do we do?" I needed to know what our next line of action would be. If we were gonna sit back and let it slide or confront them.

“I take that back. I know what to do. I’m going to get Ainsley out of this mess. I don’t know how I’m going to do it yet, but I’m going to get her help and we’re going to expose all this bullshit. Nothing you can do or say is going to stop me.” I turn my back to the trio and go to my room, locking the door behind me. My tears are blinding my vision. My heart feels like it’s breaking and beating out of my chest at the same time. How could my family do this to me? The people who cared about me for so long. How could they have betrayed me for so many years? How was I not able to see it before? Did I ignore the red flags for Ainsley’s sake, or did they really hide their dirty secret so well, for

" I felt like the floor was collapsing beneath me. My knees could barely support my weight. With stiff movements, I finally sat down in a chair, staring at the documents in front of me with blurred vision. “Why?” The question came out almost like a groan. “Why did he do this?” "Ambition. Jealousy. Tired of living in the shadow of a more successful brother.“ Darius sat across from me. ”Classic reasons for family betrayal." I closed my eyes, trying to control the emotions that were overflowing—anger, sadness, betrayal so deep it felt physical. My parents didn't die in a tragic accident. They were murdered. By their own family.

“What if… what if they did do it?” The words hit me like a knife. “What did you just say?” “Your family is known to be vindictive,” he pressed, though his voice shook. “I betrayed you. I hid the surrogacy. Your father was hopeful, desperate even, that you would be the one to give me heirs. What if he snapped? What if, ”

"Alright. I'll tell you what I can. I am not your enemy. I'm not your friend either. There was a breach somewhere, but it wasn't the breach. You're correct, they got help from inside, but it wasn't me." "Then who was it?" Ï can't tell you that, you have to figure it out on your own because even if I told you, you wouldn't believe me. Your enemy is really close. "What do you mean?" "You'll find out eventually. The truth would always come out. Until then, watch your back. Sometimes, those whom we call family inflict the deepest wounds." "Watch your mouth!" I snarled. "If you think my family would betray me, you're mistaken."

“Why did you do all this? She was innocent. You never listened to me. Now you are her culprit. I will never forgive you. You were always like my father who always ignored me but when you hurt my Rapunzel, I was also beyond shattered. If you were like my father, she was like my mother. Who never let me sleep empty stomach and not even allowed to go to work without breakfast? But when you entered in our life you just destroyed the humble abode.” “Aspan I can’t undo the facts and incidents which I did knowingly or unknowingly. I was whimned by my family. The very word I hate the most my family gave me. I never trusted them but when I saw the incidents happening in front of me, I couldn’t deny.

He had also been pained by my father’s betrayal because he was a man we all trusted. “He deserves it,” Mikhail replied from the back seat. “He should have seen it coming. He knows the kind of son he raised.” Not to brag but Mikhail was right. He did know the kind of son he raised. Unlike him, I didn’t hide any parts of myself. I didn’t pretend to be who I wasn’t, so he knew me. He knew what I was capable of and he knew how I’d react to a betrayal. Betrayals were something I didn’t take lightly because a betrayal could ruin the family.

Hatchet is a good man, he wouldn’t steal from my family. “I didn’t. I put my men on the task as always. They haven’t come back yet. They are due back soon. We will get to the bottom of this, Antonio. I would never betray you or your family. We are bound by blood.” “That means nothing. Blood betrays blood all the damn time. You, of all people, know this. So we will wait. If they aren’t here by nightfall, then you know the penalty.” I gulp, looking at my dad and my momma. She is looking sad and I know she doesn’t want this to happen.

Anna trained her daughter, she told her everything about her true ‘Family’ about her own happy, loving childhood, the Grandparents and Uncles she would never know. They shared many happy hours and sat out on the patio in the early morning sunshine going through photos and videos of the family, She saw her Mother grow from a chubby happy little girl into a beautiful young woman. She saw the pride in her Grandparent's eyes as each child grew into adulthood, her brothers were only a few years older than her and looked so handsome standing beside their Father in their brand new Armani suits. Finally, she told her daughter of the betrayal, her Father's second in command had wanted to take over an