The Woman Of Fire (Eyes Of Fire Book 1)

The People I Left



The people I left behind were never the people I thought they were.



I grew up believing that the first hands to hold me would be the last hands to let me fall. They told me they would protect me with their lives. I believed them.



Until they sold me.



They gave me to people who saw me not as a daughter, not as a human being, but as something they could cut open, alter, and rebuild. Inside a place hidden from the world, they took my voice, rewrote my body, and slowly erased the girl I used to be.



I remember the pain.



I remember the silence.



And most of all, I remember wondering why the people who promised to protect me were the ones who handed me over.



I was twenty-one when they took me.



I don't know how old I was when I stopped being the girl they sold.



But somewhere between the experiments, the blood, and the endless darkness, something inside me refused to disappear.



My name is Victoria Stevens.



And this is the story of what they made me become.