Chapter 1

Sixteen minutes after being abducted by aliens, I returned to Earth.

I knocked on my front door. My husband, Ethan, stood there holding a little boy, with a strange woman wearing an apron beside him.

When he saw me, Ethan’s eyes widened in disbelief.

“Clara, you’ve been missing for six years. You’re actually still alive?”

Before I could process what he meant by six years, Ethan was already losing patience.

“I don’t care where you’ve been these six years, but I have a new family now. Don’t come around disrupting my life anymore.”

“My daughter is in there.”

I instinctively asked about the person I cared about most.

“Your daughter?”

Ethan sneered as he pulled the woman beside him closer.

“Her mother is this woman now. She’s the mistress of this house. If you know what’s good for you, get lost.”

Gripping the black crystal stone the aliens had given me as compensation—one that could grant wishes—I silently recited:

“In three hours, make those who wronged me suffer a hundred times worse.”