bellanne_writes
"You ruined me. I'm returning the favor."
For thirteen years, it was just Irene and her mother against the world. No father. No extended family. Just the two of them-and that was enough.
Until the fear began.
Her mother starts checking the windows. Double-locking the doors. Refusing visitors. Living like someone is always watching.
Then one afternoon, Irene comes home to silence.
Her mother never returned from work. Instead, a neatly wrapped box sits on the dining room table, tied carefully with a bow. Thinking it's a birthday surprise, Irene opens it.
What she finds inside shatters her world.
Ten years later, Irene is no longer the terrified girl who lost everything in a single night. Trauma has shaped her. Grief hardened her. Patience trained her.
Now she's back.
Not as a victim-but as a weapon.
And she has spent the last decade preparing for one thing:
Revenge.
Because monsters don't deserve mercy.
They deserve to be hunted.