The Night My Brother Chose Her Over Us

Nora Ashcroft wakes into the worst night of her life for the second time. In a life she has already lived and lost, armed men broke into the family estate, her mother died, and Nora was tortured to death — all because her brother Ethan stripped the house of its guards to chase a meteor shower with his girlfriend, Vanessa Sloane. Reborn hours before the gates are forced open, Nora races to save the mother she once buried. She barricades the bedroom, calls the police herself, and begs Ethan to come home — but he laughs her off as a jealous liar. When the intruder breaks through, Nora's mother, Diana, throws herself at the knife so her daughter can jump from the window and run for help. The one man Nora trusts, her childhood sweetheart and fiance Adrian Vaughn, meets her at his gate and calls her terror a performance. He beats her injured leg with a bat to punish her "lie" — until the police call to say the invasion was real and her mother is dying. Guilt turns Adrian and Ethan into penitents too late. Nora rejects them both, breaks the engagement, and watches her family fracture. When their father, Gregory, returns and learns the truth, he cuts Ethan out of the family and the company and names Nora his heir. Ethan and Vanessa, cast out with nothing, spiral: his rival company collapses, Vanessa's love evaporates with his money, and the police finally expose who really paid the intruders. Standing behind her window, whole and untouchable, Nora watches the brother and the fiance who once owned her heart turned away at her gate — and lets herself smile.

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  • Author: ao3_refugee
  • Chapters: 11
  • Status: Ongoing

Nora Ashcroft wakes into the worst night of her life for the second time. In a life she has already lived and lost, armed men broke into the family estate, her mother died, and Nora was tortured to death — all because her brother Ethan stripped the house of its guards to chase a meteor shower with his girlfriend, Vanessa Sloane. Reborn hours before the gates are forced open, Nora races to save the mother she once buried. She barricades the bedroom, calls the police herself, and begs Ethan to come home — but he laughs her off as a jealous liar. When the intruder breaks through, Nora's mother, Diana, throws herself at the knife so her daughter can jump from the window and run for help. The one man Nora trusts, her childhood sweetheart and fiance Adrian Vaughn, meets her at his gate and calls her terror a performance. He beats her injured leg with a bat to punish her "lie" — until the police call to say the invasion was real and her mother is dying. Guilt turns Adrian and Ethan into penitents too late. Nora rejects them both, breaks the engagement, and watches her family fracture. When their father, Gregory, returns and learns the truth, he cuts Ethan out of the family and the company and names Nora his heir. Ethan and Vanessa, cast out with nothing, spiral: his rival company collapses, Vanessa's love evaporates with his money, and the police finally expose who really paid the intruders. Standing behind her window, whole and untouchable, Nora watches the brother and the fiance who once owned her heart turned away at her gate — and lets herself smile.