Love was never the plan

Ivy POV Blood filled everywhere, the houses across the road breathing fire, my parents were gone. I held the knife, shaking about to make a decision. I am Ivy Sinclair and this is my story. For sixteen years, I had imagined this moment, now that it was here, revenge suddenly had a face. The ballroom glittered with wealth, crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling, their light dancing across marbles polished enough to reflect every designer heel that walked past it. I smiled It was the kind of smile people trusted, the kind that belonged to a young woman who had everything. Beauty, Elegance and Confidence. No one could ever see the fire beneath them. Miss Sinclair? I turned to the waiter, accepting a glass of champagne with a graceful nod. “Thank you” My fingers barely touched the wine glass before the extreme feeling of fear. The room became strangely quiet. A while ago everyone was interacting with each other. Heads turned around to the entrance, only for someone to whisper the name that haunted my nightmares for sixteen years. “Mr Dante Vale has arrived.” The glass nearly slipped out of my hands. For a second, I wasn’t twenty-two anymore, I was six. Blood filled the floor, My mother’s desperate scream, my father’s trembling hands pushing me under the bed. “Don’t come out, no matter what happens.” From one gunshot to another. I blinked, forcing the memories back to the darkness where they belonged. When I looked up, he was standing a few feet away. He looked older than I remembered, more powerful, more evil. Smiling like he has never stolen anyone’s family. Sixteen years, Sixteen years of wondering what I would do if I ever stood in the same room with the man who destroyed my life. Now I know. I could hear my heartbeat from my ears. I tried so hard to fight my emotions with a smile, I didn’t know pretending could be this difficult. He was offered a bottle of champagne and for a moment I thought to myself, why don’t I poison him to end all the sufferings and misery he put me through, but that wouldn’t be painful enough for him,he deserved a slow but painful death, a kind that even his ghost won’t recover from. I snapped out of it immediately, because with all this anger and hatred, I could spoil my plan. He walked directly past me, only for him to stop and walk back to me. “You look familiar, have we met before?” I was filled with rage but I let out a smile. “No we haven’t, but being the daughter of Mr and Mrs Sinclair, you must have seen my picture somewhere.” “Oh, my bad you’re all grown now. The last time we met you were still a little girl.” I uttered to myself, Of course, I was still little you murderer, I agree with you sir, I then directed him to my dad. All I could feel was the urge to tear him apart. I didn’t understand how a person could be so evil and wicked and yet still smile like he had done nothing. He climbed up to the stage “Allow me to introduce my son,” Dante said proudly, placing his hand on the shoulders of a tall man beside him. My eyes lifted slowly, Dark suit, cold blue eyes, a face made out of wealth, power, ignorance and control. Lyan Vale He looked at me for only a second, but somehow I felt like he had seen straight through me. Good Because he had no idea that he wasn’t the target, he was the weapon. I forced myself to look away, his name repeated in my head. I mean he’s the son of the wealthy and famous “Dante vale” Looking at him, accomplishing my mission wouldn’t be as easy as I thought. Unlike his dad he didn’t look evil, heartless. He didn’t look like someone I could hate without a reason. “Have we met before? I lifted my head only to see that my target had come to me by himself. He looked directly at me, none of us said anything for about 5 seconds. “No,” we haven’t He smiled, But you are the daughter of Mr and Mrs Sinclair? I replied immediately,“ Yes, but that’s not a reason we should know each other.” Should it? He let out a laugh. “I like the confidence, but trust me, I have a way of breaking people like you” I laughed out loudly, he wasn’t what I expected, he was perfect for my game! Someone touched my shoulders, Mum, it was my mum “ You guys are already getting to know yourselves. I was looking for you everywhere to introduce you to him, oh well you guys should have fun. If you need anything, I’ll be in the board room with your dad and his family” Before I could say hi, she was already gone, typical mum. She wants me to have more male friends. Lyan and I went up to the boardroom. There I watched Dante Vale laugh very loudly with other business partners. I watched him very carefully. He laughed like he only does good, Like a man who never left a little girl to die after taking both her parents at such an early age My fingers tightened around the glass of wine I was holding. I knew I was going to make him pay dearly for what he did to me. But first I had to make Lyan Vale, his son, fall in love with me. And somehow I just knew Lyan wasn’t going to make it easy for me. But at that moment, I didn’t care about how tough it would be, all I wanted was to get my revenge in action. Shortly, we heard a loud scream from the party hall, commotion everywhere, bullets flying around We all ran downstairs, but before we could hide, somebody behind us was shot. I screamed.