Your Love Failed Me the Way My Mother’s Never Did — Novel

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In a world where love is a weapon and family ties are fraught with betrayal, River finds herself at the center of a storm she never wanted to join. Haunted by the tragic end of her best friend and the gaping wounds left in her family’s wake, she grapples with the weight of blame and the suffocating expectation to be someone she’s not. Each day feels like a countdown, a race against the darkness that threatens to consume her.

As River navigates the turbulent waters of familial loyalty and personal despair, her brothers—each marked by their own scars—turn against her, wielding words sharper than any knife. How can she bear the burden of their accusations while battling her own demons? And when the stakes are raised and lives hang in the balance, will she find the strength to reclaim her narrative, or will she succumb to the shadows of her past?

With every twist, the question looms: can love survive when it’s forged in pain? As River stands on the precipice of her own fate, the choice she makes could shatter everything she thought she knew about family, loyalty, and the true meaning of love.

Your Love Failed Me the Way My Mother’s Never DidChapter 1

My best friend ended her life after crashing her car into my eldest brother, leaving him with a broken leg and then jumping from the thirtieth floor.

As she lay in a pool of blood, he said to me with a bright smile. "River, I'll wait for you over there!"

Only then did I understand she had chosen death to escape this world.

That night, I baked a birthday cake and shared the news of my departure in the family group chat.

Spencer, my second brother and a doctor, coldly replied with the number 1.

Then came a voice message from my third brother, Skyler, the international pop star, mocking me. "If you're going to die, just die already. All you ever do is envy Agnes. If you die today, I'll livestream myself eating shit!"

My parents stayed silent, but they flooded the chat with countless photos of Agnes celebrating her birthday at Disneyland.

Only my eldest brother, Sawyer, the CEO, sent one choked-up voice message after another. "River, you know where Kienna went, right? I beg you, tell me … "

I didn't say a word. Instead, I ate the cake all by myself. Soon, I would reunite with my real parents and brother.

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