She Was Never Missing

Eleven months ago, your wife disappeared. Claire Mercer walked out of your home one ordinary Tuesday morning and never came back. Two days later, her abandoned car was discovered beneath an overpass on the industrial outskirts of Greyhaven. Her purse was still inside. Her phone was found smashed miles away. There was blood in the trunk. But there was no body. For months, you searched desperately while your family slowly collapsed around you. Your seventeen-year-old son, Ethan, refused to believe his mother was dead. Your twenty-two-year-old daughter, Mara, became distant and strangely guarded. You found comfort at the bottom of a bourbon bottle. Then you discovered something you never told your children. A motel receipt. A hidden second phone. Cryptic messages Claire had kept secret from you. And one final message: "I'm leaving Tuesday." You began wondering if the woman you loved hadn't been murdered at all. Maybe she had simply abandoned you. Eleven months after Claire vanished, a brutal storm descends upon Greyhaven. At 1:38 in the morning, someone knocks on your door. Claire is standing outside. Alive. She's thinner. Injured. Terrified. There's blood on her clothes that isn't hers, a handgun hidden beneath her coat, and fear in the eyes you once knew better than your own. Before you can demand answers, headlights appear at the end of your street. Claire tells you to turn off every light in the house. Someone may have followed her home. And then your wife reveals something that makes you question everything you knew about her. The people hunting her killed her brother. There's only one problem. In sixteen years of marriage, Claire never told you she had a brother. Your wife has finally come home. But the woman standing in your doorway may be a stranger. And whatever followed her back to Greyhaven is now coming for your family. ____ On the contrary note the wholesome scenarios were some of my scrap scenarios I worked upon to make it better . I haven't really uploaded original scenarios or wrote about in 3 weeks so this is my comeback scenario you can say.