Chapter 1

" Fire! Help" Isabella heard the voice of her mother coming from the stairs. Isabella remembered when she was just 6 years old, she was coming home from her friend's house and it was dark when she saw smoke and flames coming from her house direction, she ran towards the smoke and saw her house on fire, the more she heard the screams of her mother the more frightened she became, she ran into her house and headed towards the stairs, " where's the tape" a strange and familiar voice coming from the stairs said to her parents sounding angry, Isabella knew there was someone else upstairs with her parents and the voice was very much familiar to her, she hid behind the stairs to listen to the familiar voice so she would know who was the person that was with her parents, she didn't see the person face she only saw the back view of the person and that the person was holding a knife, " pls Alberto we don't know where the tape is" said Mr. Norman Isabella father who could barely talk because of the scorching heat. Isabella paid maximum attention to what they were talking about and noticed that they were talking about a tape and she was aware that her father kept a tape in his library and warned her never to go near it she was curious on why her father didn't want anyone to know where he kept the tape and what he was hiding it ,she heard the sound of a gun shot and her mother screamed Immediately, she became very frightened, she quietly went to her father's library although half of the library was on fire, she quickly and quietly collected the tape, and she proceeded to the stairs,she was about to hand over the tape to the strange man so he won't hurt any of her parents then she immediately observed the room, the strange and familiar voice she heard from the stairs was Mr Alberto, her father close friend who was very friendly to her and bought her lots of candy, she saw her father on the floor dead with lots of blood on the floor, she looks into her mother eyes but her mother was very much frightened and scared, her mother gave her a quiet sign to run but she was too scared to move, Alberto was about standing up when Isabella mother shouted on Isabella "Run Isabella, Run" she yelled at Isabella with tears in her eyes, immediately Isabella took off, her mother summoned courage to slammed Alberto with the huge mirror in their room on his head and made a run from him, " Run Isabella Run please don't look back please" Said Isabella's mother, Isabella ran as fast as she could and proceeded to the down floor, Isabella mum tripped over and fell down as she was trying to excaped but has been injury earlier by Alberto, Isabella stopped and turned to help her mum then she saw Alberto coming out of the room with a deadly look in his eyes, his hands were driping of blood from the cuts but Isabella couldn't see a gun with him, Isabella wanted to quickly help her mother up but her mother was insiting she continue running, she saw Alberto walking and staring at her, his eyes didn't left her and when she checked to see what he was looking at, it was the tape she collected from her father's library, she wondered what was so special about the tape that her parents were trying to secure it, she kept it inside her jacket she was wearing and started running towards the backyard exit, she managed to run out and was heading to the bushes at her backyard when she turned back to see, she saw Alberto at the exit door but immediately got swoped in by her mother who knew nothing about the tape and was just trying to protect her daughter from the hands of the deadly assassin they all thought was a Friend. "Mum are you ok," Isabella said, running back to the exit door to help her mother but immediately she was about to go back inside the house, the whole building came collapsing just in Infront of her eyes because the fire had been burning since and the interior part of the house that was made of wood wasn't that strong to hold the house together. "Mum" Isabella cried out but she got no response from her mother or Alberto. She sat down thinking and crying about everything that just happened, she couldn't believe what just happened before her eyes, her room, her toys, herhome, her parents everything was on fire. The 6 years old girl was just heartbroken and confused, she sat there for some minutes wondering what next to do until she heard the siren of an ambulance and some police department team, she wasn't ready to give the tape to officers and she didn't want to leave the matters into the hands of the police, she quietly sneaked into the bushes at the back of their house and hid there till the following day.

The next day, when she noticed the absence of the police, she went straight to her neighbor's house, Mrs Clara. On seeing Isabella, Mrs. Clara and her daughter Matilda who was Isabella's best friend were so much happy, Mrs Clara wanted to call the police immediately but Isabella refuses, she told Mrs Clara to help hercall her grandmother, that she wishes to stay with her grandmother, Mrs Clara who was very heartbroken by the accident, pitied the little girl and decided to grant her wish by calling her grandmother Mrs Daphne Norman to come get her. Isabella followed her grandmother Mrs. Daphne to her home but she could remember how uncomfortable she was because of the tragic death of her parents, later that night she was found it very hard to sleep because her parents would always tell her stories and wait for her to sleep, that night she couldn't sleep, memories of her parents were flashing through her mind " Don't worry mom, don't worry dad I promise to avenge your death if it's the last thing I do, I will make sure I wipe Alberto's family and take his happiness away from him just like how he has taken away my happiness from me" she could remember this exact statement she said years ago, she remembered how deeply and loudly she cried that night until Mrs. Daphne her grandma heard her crying and came in to console her, memories from her past kept on flashing through her eyes, she wanted to pay Alberto back for the pain he made her go through