Scarlet Widow • Secret Love

Prologue

Epilogue (Book 1)

Wanda and I sat in front of the camper and looked over our lives.

It consisted of the camper from before, a log cabin, Wanda's small garden, and James and Yelena.

After our wedding, I got pregnant a second time and we had a daughter. At that time, we had decided on the name Yelena, because I wanted to keep the name with me.

I surveyed, all the action and laughed as James and Yelena had a crawling race in our direction.

"Those two are so cute," Wanda smiled and leaned over to kiss me.

"We're lucky," I replied, and the all-too-familiar warm feeling my family evoked in me flared up.

"Right."

We looked at each other for a moment before the two kids arrived at our house and we each picked one up in our arms.

"Hey little one" I whispered and kissed James on the forehead.

I slowly stood up and looked at Wanda.

"I'm going to go get dinner ready. Are you coming?", I asked and Wanda nodded.

Together we made dinner and sang in the weirdest tones to the songs on the radio. Whenever we had some time, we danced around the kitchen and with every activity Wanda stood behind me and hugged me.

It was a great feeling to finally have found a home that gave you support and a reason to keep fighting for it.

"Dinner's ready," I smiled and turned to Wanda.

"Perfect," she whispered and kissed me.

"Let's eat... I'm hungry," I laughed and she nodded.

We ate together and fed the kids their baby mush/chopped up food.

"I love you all," I said, smiling happily. "And I especially love you, Wanda. You made this all possible for me. I don't know what I would do without you and my family..."

Prologue

Just as I was about to clear the plates, Yelena dissolved into dust.

"Y-Yelena?!", I shouted in panic and ran to her chair.

After that, James dissolved. Tears were running down my cheeks.

"Natasha, what's happening right now?" said Wanda and I turned to her.

She slowly dissolved as well and I ran to her. I wrapped her in my arms and she looked at me fearfully.

"It's going to be okay, Wanda. I promise. I'm going to fix everything..."

Wanda finally crumbled into dust and my cheeks were flooded with hot tears.

I didn't know what to do or what had happened. But I had a slight hunch that it had something to do with the Avengers.

I vowed to hunt them all down. To kill everyone who got between me and my family-no, anyone who even made dirty deals. For this I was trained and finally I could use my abilities as I wanted. No one gave me orders and no one ruled me. I had lost everything that was important to me within 1 minute and I would make people pay for it....