My Parents Gave Their Entire Inheritance To My Favored Brother. But Five Years Later, They Showed

I’m Lillian, fresh out of college, starting my marketing career and life in my own apartment. My traditional family—Mom, Dad, brother Lucas, his wife Sarah, and their kids—gathered every Saturday for dinner, where Lucas and Sarah were endlessly praised. I felt invisible, especially when Mom called Sarah “the daughter I never had.” At one dinner, my parents announced their will, leaving everything to Lucas for his kids’ future, dismissing mine. Years of favoritism flooded back—missed recitals, ignored achievements. I confronted them, walked out, and cut contact.

Years later, I built a happy life with my husband James and twins. My parents suddenly wanted to reconnect, revealing Lucas’s kids weren’t his biologically and offering to rewrite the will for access to my children. I refused, protecting my family from their conditional love. Lucas, now estranged too, apologized for past favoritism. We’re slowly rebuilding, focusing on authentic family, free from my parents’ manipulative standards.