All Chapters of The Only Victim: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

Dad glanced at Ravenna, then motioned for Leo to follow him out into the living room.Mom was still holding Ravenna, murmuring, "From now on, you're my only daughter left."Ravenna responded absentmindedly, shaking her leg impatiently."Raven, are you hurt?"Mom noticed the bruises on Ravenna's hand—the mark I had left when she'd tried to slap me, and I'd bitten her instead.Ravenna quickly pulled her hand back and explained, "I accidentally bumped into something."Mom gave her a thoughtful look but said nothing.That afternoon, Leo drove Ravenna back to school.Meanwhile, Dad kept searching through the house, trying to recall where he had seen that masked figure from the surveillance footage. The silhouette felt all too familiar.Finally, beneath a stack of old photo albums, he found it—his journal from when he had first joined the fire department.As a firefighter, Dad had witnessed countless life-or-death moments in burning buildings. To cope, he had developed a habit of w