The Assassin's Daughter

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ept on trailing down soaking my cheeks and the white collar of the school uniform I was wearing. I placed my hand again on my mother's w

my mom told me about him. I didn't get the chance to see my little brother growing in front of me. I had so many plans jotted down when my father told me I am going

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e the house tremble along with

ng in between two dead bodies. I managed to push myself up from the bloody floor. My skirt was drenched in red

nds in me. I closed my eyes and took a sharp breath

I promise to make you go through the same hell you put me in. I, Iris Yuri Ivanov vow t

my room I found a small backpack on my bed. Without wasting a single time I opened

the attack? Why my

nderstood that my parents wanted to run away fr

it.There were his shirts, suits all packed up. I inhaled sharply to have the last ounce of my parents' lingering smell. His favorite cologne was there too which I grab

the hidden safe behind tho

myself. There would be always something for me but he had never told me what. I didn't know why did he say that.

h a small stone. At the end of the handle, there was a blue dazzling stone that reminded me of my father's obsession with Blue Sapphire gems. I

ne bad?" My

ngers on those cold metals. I held the gun and it felt heavy. I didn't know how to use that. I ha

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e. I rubbed my finger on the letters to feel him more in my hear

eason." I remembered my father saying that when I got hurt in school while playing soccer. He always told me to be strong and I alw

ories flashed in my mind when I used to hide in her closet and she used to find me easily. My mother loved me more than her life. She left me alone in this world to survive. I cursed myself for bein

iry tale family crushed down just in a few hours and I couldn't do anything but weep. I was lost when I thought to go away from here. I

as per my dad's last words. Someone might come to harm me for sure. His words kept on banging my head until I decided to leave the house and the locality. But where would I go? I had no e

that tightly while walking past my parents' lifeless bodies. The rifle was lying beside my dad's body which shook my equilibrium badly. I can't imagine my father killing

arrange your cremation. But I promise I would make him r

with my unborn brother. I thought to report to the police but I knew I would be stuck in their custody and would never get the chance

would come and they would take care of the situation. When I would come back to finish him off, I would surrender my

looked like he was sleeping peacefully. How could he sleep when his daughter had become re

elf on my father again. His body lost all the hea

d like some deep ocean full of secrets. My father held secrets that I had understood just then. Those g

never seen him fighting except once when a boy bullied me.

lies me?" I whispered hugging his body

I cried while standing up from th

y cries filled the air again but all I could feel was emptiness. There was no hand ex

and fear. I knew those who killed my parents would come for me and before they come to take me away, I had to kill h

d my sorrows. I remembered the last name my father uttered when I was asking where to go or who had

o kill you and aveng