The Pact of Vengeance

Ayisha had never imagined she would be the kind of woman who would one day type out her life story in a desperate plea on the internet. But the world had shifted under her feet in the past week, so violently and without mercy, that she found herself staring at her laptop screen in the middle of her small living room, fingers trembling as they hovered over the keyboard.

Her home was quiet. Too quiet. Tessa’s laughter no longer bounced off the walls, and the children’s ...