He laughed as he snapped the blind girl's cane, expecting tears. She calmly stood there, adjusting her dark glasses. He had no idea that fragile white stick was never meant to guide her. It was the lock keeping them safe.
"Cry for me, blind kid." The school bully snapped my white cane and laughed—but he had no idea what terrifying entity I was actually holding back.
Chapter 1
I’ve been blind since I was seven, but nothing could have prepared me for the sheer cruelty I found inside the halls of Ridgewood High.
Getting a full scholarship to the most elite private school in the state was supposed to be my ticket to a normal life.
I just wanted to keep my head down, do my assignments, and survive my senior year without drawing attention.
But guys like Trent Carrington don’t let the quiet kids go unnoticed.
Trent was the untouchable king of the school, born into massive wealth and possessing a heart made of absolute ice.
He thought my white cane made me an easy target. He thought my dark glasses meant I couldn't perceive the danger around me.
When he cornered me by the lockers, ripped the cane from my hands, and snapped it over his knee while the whole hallway pointed and laughed, he expected me to cry.
He expected me to drop to the floor and beg for help.
But as the sound of the snapping fiberglass echoed through the quiet corridor, I didn't feel a single ounce of fear.
I just felt a cold, familiar calm wash over my body.
Because Trent thought I was just a broken, helpless blind girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
He had no idea that the quiet, strict woman who adopted me ten years ago wasn't just a regular mother.
She was once the most lethal and feared assassin in Europe.
And she didn't just teach me how to read Braille.
