After my husband vented his anger for my sister-in-law and locked my daughter in the tunnel and was bitten to death alive, I let the two of them fight each other.

Chapter 1

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After the global collapse, my daughter Daisy's radiation immunity became our family's lifeline, finding us food and clean water.

But my sister-in-law, Cassandra, pointed at Daisy, accusing her of stealing her son Leo's abilities.

The next day, my six-year-old Daisy was thrown by my husband, Julian, into an abandoned pipe crawling with mutated rats.

I knelt outside the iron bars, my head slamming against the concrete, begging them to pull Daisy out.

Julian impatiently kicked me away: "She can't be poisoned to death anyway. What's wrong with a few rat bites?"

"We're family. Just letting Cassandra blow off some steam."

I watched, horrified, as my daughter screamed and ran inside the pipe, her clothes torn, her tiny body covered in bloody gashes.

Cassandra, bored, pulled Julian away to distribute food.

Daisy's cries grew weaker and weaker, until all that was left was the excited gnawing of mutated rats.

When Julian finally returned, all that was left of Daisy was half a tiny leg, dragging from the pipe opening.

He kicked away a rat still tearing at her, then sneered at me: "Still wailing? I only put common rats in there. They can't kill a person."

"Who knew she was so stupid she wouldn't even realize that?"